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Date:         Mon, 12 Jul 1999 08:09:30 -0700
Reply-To:     Stuart MacMillan <stuart@COBALTGROUP.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Stuart MacMillan <stuart@COBALTGROUP.COM>
Organization: The Cobalt Group
Subject:      Re: Installing Mud Flaps
Comments: To: Paul Travassos <ptravassos@HOME.COM>
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You can't get at that screw, and it isn't necessary. You can install your new flaps easily from the out side with a 10 cent trim fastener.

When I installed my replacement flaps, I just pulled off the old one (only had one flap, and it was on the driver's side) and the screw fell away inside the pillar. Then I went to my FLAPS (pun intended) and found a suitable barbed plastic trim fastener about an inch long with a barb diameter that would fit snugly into the hole. My replacement flaps were used, so I enlarged the hole a bit with a drill bit to allow for a tight force-fit of the fastener's head and added some glue for good measure. With new flaps you will have to mark where the fasten should go and drill a hole.

Then I attached the flap and pushed the barbed fastener into the hole. Voila!

This has worked beautifully for about 5 years now.

> Paul Travassos wrote: > > What I want to know before I rip my van apart is how do you get at the > screws from the inside of the van because it looks impossible. For > example, the location of the front driver's mudflap seems to be > right at the interface between the kitchen unit and the driver's seat > platform.

-- Stuart MacMillan Manager, Case Program 800-909-8244 ext 208

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