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Plastic Wheel Wells

PostPosted: Wed Jul 06, 2011 11:07 pm
by Deryk the Pirate
Anyone know where I can get them from? Im contemplating my next build and makeing the floor wider and was wondering about useing plastic wheel wells to cut down on stuff being kicked up by the tires to protect the floor.

thanks

deryk

PostPosted: Thu Jul 07, 2011 12:07 am
by droid_ca
wouldn't the roofing tar over wood work when you do the bottom you could probably use some of the scrapes so then it would be an environmentaly friendly green vardo just my 2cents I 'd be worried about plastic breakingImage

PostPosted: Thu Jul 07, 2011 6:27 am
by bobhenry
I used a $ 8.00 can of spray on bed liner in the wheel well areas on Chubby.

I use rubberized elastopolymer roof coat on Eggbert , my 1st build, and it still looks good 4 years later !

I have seen the plactic liners in a couple farm stores and I would think an auto salvage yard would net an inner fender liner that would be able to be modified as well.

PostPosted: Thu Jul 07, 2011 6:34 am
by Woodbutcher
Seems to me I remember someone using a plastic tub you use for mixing concrete. They cut the ends off and used them.

PostPosted: Thu Jul 07, 2011 7:17 am
by Deryk the Pirate
Someone here on the forum built a 6x10 teardrop out of a popup and had them on it then boxed it in with plywood...he had put up a downloadable pdf of his build and I saw it in the pictures. Probably the tar would work fine, was just thinking anything to add a little protection to the floor would be a good thing.

deryk

PostPosted: Thu Jul 07, 2011 8:39 pm
by High Desert
I've used the hard plastic truck mudflaps for such things before. They're meant to deflect road debris and you can cut the pieces to fit however you like. Just another thought.

PostPosted: Mon Jul 11, 2011 6:51 pm
by goldcoop