WeatherTech Mud Flaps - Easy-Install, No-Drill, Digital Fit - Rear Pair

Video Transcript for WeatherTech Rear Pair Mud Flaps Installation - 2019 Ford F-350 Super Duty

Hi there, Ford owners, found your 2019 Ford F-350 Super Duty. We're gonna be taking a look at and showing you how to install weather techs mud flaps for the rear of the vehicle. And this is what our set of rear mud flaps looks like when it's installed. You can see it does drop down pretty far, and it's gonna collect a lot of dirt and debris that would flinging off your tire that otherwise would fling all over the trailer behind you or vehicles behind you. So this is a great way to protect your investments. Not only on this vehicle, but protect by protecting the back here.

You can see our customers already got some marks on it. So you probably should have got these a little bit sooner but it will still protect everything from there back. And when you're hauling really expensive, you know, you got your campers there. Even if it's a bumper pull camper, it can be a very expensive camper and you don't wanna be throwing dirt and rocks on it the whole time you're driving down the road. Same thing with boats.

Boats are very expensive as well. You wanna keep that looking nice. And even if it's not for something you're hauling but maybe you do some offroading and stuff and you're concerned about people around you, you don't wanna damage any vehicles just out there on the highway, this can help keep any of that dirt and debris that you picked up on the trail off of other people's vehicles. These do come as a pair, so you'll get one for each side, and it's custom fit for your vehicle. So it'll attach directly to factory attachment points.

There's no drilling required to get this installed. It's extremely easy and fast. Our mud flap does have some flex to it. So you don't have to worry about over time with the sun beaten down on it, UV rays and road grime wearing on your panel. It does have that flex, that it needs to allow it to get hit by various debris that might fling off your tire there.

And it does have a lot of flex. There's no cracking. There's not even any like stress marks in it from heavy stress. So they are pretty heavy duty. I don't think you're gonna have to worry about these cracking or breaking on you anytime soon. We'll begin our installation here in the wheel. Well, now we're gonna clean up the area where we're working but if you are at home, I'd recommend just washing your whole truck before you start this. That way everything will be nice and clean. But we're just gonna be washing the areas where we're working. We'll do that after we get our hardware out, though. We're gonna remove the pin here. We're on the driver's side. We're just behind the rear tire here. And there's a single pin kind of down here towards the lower section. We're just putting our trim panel tool in there to pop out the center of the pin. And it's pretty dirty. If you got a lot of dirt and debris, live on a gravel road, stuff like that, these are usually a little harder to pull out of there. There we go. We got that guy out. Now, if we just follow this straight down to the bottom here there's a single fastener located here on the bottom. We're gonna remove that with a 10-millimeter socket. Make sure you save your spacer here that comes out with that bolt. You're gonna need it later. Now at this point, we're gonna go ahead and get all this cleaned up so that way we can ensure we don't cause any damage to it while we're working by causing scratches through all the dirt that's there. We're just gonna use some alcohol to clean up the area. Again, I recommend just washing your whole vehicle. We're cleaning up the area with a little bit of alcohol here because we have a sticker that we're gonna be putting in place and we want it to adhere well. The sticker is gonna ensure that any vibrations that may be occurring as we're driving down the road from our mud flap don't turn into abrasions here on our vehicle. So we're gonna get this cleaned up to ensure good adhesion here. That looks pretty good. Now we can go ahead and grab our mud flap as well as the stickers. So here we've got our mud flap. They are labeled in your kit. You see here, it says left hand side. So make sure you grab the appropriate one. Your stickers here are also labeled, right hand and left hand. We're gonna be using the left on this side. Before I put the sticker on, I like to just hold it up here, just to get an idea of where it's gonna sit when it's installed. And when we're looking at it here, we can see this is kind of the point where it curves over the outside. So we want our sticker to kind of start at about that point and then wrap underneath. So we know roughly where we want our sticker. We're gonna peel the sticker off the backing here. And one of the things you can do with these stickers is you can spray just a little bit of soapy water on here and that'll let you kind of slide it around. You don't want a lot, just a little tiny bit. And then you can slide it around, if you're unsure on where you wanna put it. If you ever worked with like decals and stuff before, it's kind of similar. We know exactly where we're gonna put ours though. So we're just gonna run ours into position. All right, smooth out that there. And then that'll protect the side of our vehicle here. And now we can put our mud flap here kind of into position. I'm gonna just temporarily set it back up here and we can take the pin that we removed and pop that back in place. That'll just hold it up in here for us. I'm gonna put the center in as well so it doesn't fall off of there. All right, so this bottom piece here we've got some hardware we need to assemble. So you'll see a bag in your kit. Go ahead and grab that and pull your hardware out. So here's the hardware we're gonna be using. The long HICKS head bolt. Place your washer on it. And we're gonna set that down just for a minute here 'cause you also get these spacers in your kit. They're labeled on one side. We want the 3/16 spacer, and we want the 1/16 spacer. You don't need the 3/8. You can set that aside. We're also gonna take our bolt here and we need this piece that's on the bolt. So just pull the bolt out of there. All right, so now we've got our pieces that we can start to assemble here. These are both the spacers plus the factory spacer that we pulled off the bolt. These are gonna go up into this location here where our factory bolt used to be. And then we'll slide our new bolt here up through the bottom of all those, and thread it right into position there. We wanna just grab our 10-millimeter socket once again to snug it down. Don't go too crazy with it there. Just get it to where it's snug. Our mud flap feels nice and secure here. After we put our bolt in on the other side here where you see it passes through, we're gonna take the nylon lock nut that comes in our kit and just thread that into place. This will just ensure our bolt can't back out of there on us. Once we get this snug down, we're gonna head back to the other side where we pushed our clip in, and we're gonna be replacing that with a bolt. That was just kind of a temporary little push pin to hold it up there while we we're working. So now we're gonna pop this pin out of there again. This should just come right back out of there. And we're gonna be replacing that with the button head bolt that comes in our kit. We'll place a black flat washer on it. Slide that through the hole. Then on the backside, we're gonna take the silver flat washer. And then after we put our washer on there, we're gonna follow that up with another nylon locking nut. And this can be a little tricky getting this on here. Might be easier to hold the nut and spin the bolt. Just kind of figure out which is the easiest way for you there to get it started. All right, there we go. We got it started on there. We'll then grab a 10-millimeter wrench and a Phillips screwdriver to snug these down. And now we just got both our upper and lower fasteners in place. We'll repeat the same procedures over on the other side. And that completes our installation of weather tech mud flaps on our 2019 Ford F-350 Super Duty..