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Alright, so I made some progress today. The plastic semi mud flap came in on Friday. Yeah, plastic, not rubber. It looked like a good option because it was a uniform thickness as opposed to the zigzag pattern on all the generic rubber flaps. However, turns out it's not flexible at all, and wouldn't work with the aluminum L-brackets I installed under the front lip to make an air dam.
Bummer.
It was a shot in the dark though, since my local truck stop only had the rubber ones. I may buy one of those, or I may go ahead and opt for the garden edging. So my money wouldn't be totally wasted, I used the flap for a grille block instead. The grille curves sharply in the middle and angles outward at the top, which made all my measurements wonky, so I wound up with a seam in the middle. I slapped a piece of Gorilla tape over it. It's attached with a few zip ties across the top and a wad of 3M automotive trim tape across the bottom. Not bad, I think, though quite what I'd envisioned.
~SM
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