You should think of re-positioning the tube steps, like I did. It took a 9mm drill bit (9 bucks) and a rivet nut tool (37 bucks) and a little elbow grease. I moved the tube steps back approximately 2.25 inches. Unfortunately, the gap between the rear wheel and the tube step went from...
Love the green!!!!!!! Unfortunately that wasn't available when my Bronco was built! Kind of sad that these tops were passed by QC.....but it seems like an easy cosmetic fix, I hope!
I just re-positioned my side step yesterday! It's so easy! Search for user "Skip," who posted pics! All you need is a 9mm drill bit (9 bucks) and a rivet nut tool (37 bucks) and a little elbow grease. I moved my steps back a little over 2 inches back, which leaves plenty of room for my front...
Thanks for your input!! Yes, being in the Chicagoland area (52 degrees today), the winters can be a rough! For the rear, someone drilled the holes in my plastic bumper perfect for my OEM mud flaps!! So taking advantage of the beautiful weather today, I'm coating my rear plastic bumper with...
Do you have to drill into the flare? I saw someone else say that they didn't drill, that the clip hold the mud flap and flare together! I like that idea, which will allow me to be able to remove my flare with ease. Hopefully I will install my OEM mud flaps on soon. I have to re-position my side...
I like the rear mud flaps, since they cover the gap between the bumper and wheel flare. I like the front mud flaps as well, how they sit up against the flare instead of along side of the wheel flare, like Ford's. Are you still able to remove the wheel flares without having to remove the mud...
So, I'm about to do SKIP's method, which seems super simple....using rivet nuts, I drill two new in the bottom of the side steps and insert rivet nuts, and attach the side step using the two existing holes with the original bolts in the bracket. I just received my Aoben rivet nut tool from...
Sugar Grove here but work in all of Kane....I always see a Bronco near work by Peck & Britcher.....and I saw a Velocity Blue Bronco hardtop north bound Orchard at Galena, Aurora, Saturday, just like mine!
Did you buy a rivet nut setter kit for this specific application? Amazon has some cheap ones for about 30 bucks. Is the thickness of the side step metal too thick for these cheap setters? I've also seen make-shift setters, too, where guys are just using bolts and nut and washers to force the...
That would be great....a pic!! So is there internal material throughout the side step for the screws/bolts to hold on to? Or the riv-nuts do the holding?
So did you re-position the side steps or cut off the end too allow clearance for the Ford mud flaps? I just received them in the mail, and I trying to decide to move my side steps back a couple of inches or trim the end!
Amen on the detailing, but I may get the fifth rotated because as they get rotated, I can ceramic coat the barrels on fifth wheel instead of me jacking up the Bronco!