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It came with the tiny stock painted flares (maybe 1 inch). I had posted them about (about 1 year ago) and nobody wanted them.
The Bushwackers clip right in. You do have to drill a hole on each fender to fit them, but the rest of the points just clip. Took me about 30 minutes to swap them all out.
If you still have your stock flares I may be your guy. Are yours the Bushwacker OE style? Cause all I can find for Bushwacker only attach at the lip, and use a rubber gasket along the fender.
Are your stock ones like these but painted?
Truck is looking awesome. Making me want to go to a 4' lift really bad.
If you still have your stock flares I may be your guy. Are yours the Bushwacker OE style? Cause all I can find for Bushwacker only attach at the lip, and use a rubber gasket along the fender.
Are your stock ones like these but painted?
Truck is looking awesome. Making me want to go to a 4' lift really bad.
Thanks. Yes, my stock ones were same color as the truck and like the ones in the pic. No, I don't have them any more. I have the bushwacker deep flares. They attach to the original holes (under the lip) and you have to drill 1 hole for an additional screw. Around the fender they have a rubber gasket.
Ahhhhhh. So, shipping snafu means my wheels weren't here Friday so no mounting this weekend. They did, however, arrive today (just prior to me leaving for work). Tomorrow morning the kids get dropped off and the so does my girl at the wheel shop. Hope to have it all back before noon.
Well, they got installed today (wheels and tires). It was a mad dash to get them done, get home, trim the wheel wells roughly and still get to work. I got it done though. i will clean up the trimming job this weekend, but they run and look great. I'll go out on my lunch break and get a few pics to post up. Here are some preliminaries.
With 5* 87 octane performance/tow programming.
Prior to tires (running Nitto Terras 295/70r18) 65mph would run steady at 1500rpm (gps speed)
New tires/wheels - same 1500 RPM at 65mph.
Trans temp running 1-2 degrees warmer (196-197 versus normal 195, and even then only if I gunned it to pass somebody on the 2 lane hwy). This is on a 1 hour trip to work so not just a few miles of running). The temperature of 195 has been my standard for ever.
Still romps when I punch it from standing.
I had to trim front air dam some and the rear part of the front wheel liner as well. Included in that was approximately 1 inch of metal off the end of the lower panel. This was the (now unused with the Bushwacker flares) location of the bottom hole to mount the OEM flares. I took the corner off that piece of metal. Whole thing was about the size of a quarter.
New wheels - 18x9 Fuel Hostage with 1mm offset.
New tires - 35/12.5r18 Treadwright Claw IIs
Tires run at about the same volume of the Nittos. They are actually mud tires and I would expect them to run a bit louder. They might be just a hair, but I couldn't tell any difference and cant hear a thing with the windows up and AC on med (normal for me).
AAAAAANNNNNNDDDDDDD here they are. Not washed yet, but pics all the same.
New items in these pics are the Westin HDX grill, light bar, 2 cubes, bushwacker pocket flares, Fuel Hostage 18x9s and TreadWright 35/12.5r18s.
Oh, and not in pics, but my new Tom Woods Double Cardan custom driveshaft. Because the 2nd stock one broke, the stock ones are pieces of crap, and the new custom one only cost $100 more than a stock one. It is awesome and works great.
08-16-2016, 11:46 PM
