Hi, guys.
John here with RealTruck.com.
Today, we have the Lund riveted style fender flares and I'm going to be showing you how
to install these on this truck and the first step in installing our new fender flares from
Lund is to get these old factory ones off.
Now on these new or these factory ones there's a push in clip, not all your vehicles are
going to have those clips, just depends on what make and model vehicle that you're working
on.
The rest of it is all screw type bolts and we're just going to use our drill and pull
those out.
All your vehicles are going to be similar, but somewhat different.
This one I already know is held on with the 3M sticky tape on the back side, so it's going
to be a little stiff to pull off.
Now we're going to clean this up a little bit, spray some adhesive remover on this glue
part, let it soak for a little while and we'll get that all peeled off, and get ready to
put our new ones on.
Okay, we've got all the dirt and muck wiped off of here.
So now what we want to do is just use some general purpose adhesive remover and we're
going to spray that on here.
Let it soak for about 15 minutes and then spray it again and start peeling it off.
Okay, while we've got our adhesive remover soaking we're going to go ahead and put our
rivets into our fender flare, pretty easy process.
These come with a self-locking style nut which basically, if you're familiar with them, they
have like a nylon insert which once you put them on stops them from working their way
back off.
Now once you start tightening these up, one of things to keep in mind is that this is
a really durable material that these are made out of, but if you go cranking down really
hard on them, it is possible to crack the area around where they go.
So guys don't just put all your stuff into it and really wrench them, just make them
so they're tight and not wobbling around.
You can see they look pretty good.
We got all of our rivet style bolts in there.
The next thing we want to do is go ahead and install our rubber seal.
What this does is this helps keep a nice snug fit against your vehicle without this sharp
plastic rubbing the body.
We've got our seal all the way around up to the corner here.
Now, what you want to is go ahead and take your razor knife and cut this off.
I'll go ahead and I'll put a piece across here as well.
Now that we've got our fender flare all ready to go, the seals on well.
We've had this soaking for awhile while we were putting our fender flare together.
We'll go ahead and spray it one more time and then we'll start cleaning this stuff off
of here.
So you can get these from your parts stores or your paint shops or for doing like bonded
work on your truck, but they work really good for doing this kind of stuff because they
don't scratch up your finish.
As you can see we've got all the old adhesive stuff cleaned up.
The next thing we want to do is just go ahead and make sure that our rubber gasket seal
is on real well all the way around and test fit this, make sure that it's going to go
where we want it and that our holes underneath are going to line up.
Looks good, everything is lining up the way it should.
So I'm going to go ahead and hold it here and get a screw started in it.
We've got six screws.
We're going to put four of them across here, two of them over here, and then we have that
push pin plug to put back here in the center.
We've got all the screws started in here.
So now what we want to do . . . Remember I was telling you about making sure that this
was snug up against the body of the truck, we want to do is just make sure that we go
ahead and push in on it a little bit then make sure that it's nice and snug there, and
then we'll go ahead and start tightening these screws down.
Now that we've got our bolt headed screws all put in, tightened up, we've got our fender
flare nice and snug against the body of the truck, our seal making a good solid seal all
the way around, the only thing left to put back is that body plug that we pulled out
earlier, and all we got to do is just stick it up in there, snap, it's in there.
That's how you install the Lund rivet style fender flares onto your pickup and we're going
to go ahead and do the other three and we'll come back and we'll show you how this truck
looks with all four of them on it.
As you can see, we've got these all on the truck.
They look really nice on here.
The great thing about these are is that we've put on some bigger tires and wheels.
They give us an extra two inches of protection out from the fender this way, plus they give
us about another four inches up on the fender.
So when you're cruising down the back country roads you get some of these rocks like you
can see in the tire, they come flinging out of there, they don't beat up the side of your
truck and wreck it.
They're made out of a good sturdy material, so they're not going to crack and bust when
these rocks hit them.
They're just going to deflect them away from the body of your truck, and they look really
cool too.