(Part-1) 2017 Silverado Z71-Painting and Installing Fenders Flares - Rough with Military Color Bolts
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I was putting this off to long, now its time to get these fender flares finally install on the 2017 Silverado project. This will be a part 2 video project, it took me way to long to do the whole video and i think its way to long for one video. I thin kit took me like 4 days to make the videos from start to finish, a bit to long if you ask me haha because then editing sucks and takes much longer.
in Part 2 you will see the finished result and it looks so awesome!!!
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Guys what is going on welcome back and today is a Silverado project day
and what I want to do on this truck that's something that I should have done a while back
is to finish the fender flares. The reason I haven't finished them because I've just been
pretty busy with work and family and other projects and so on. So what I gotta do is take
them off, clean them up, prep them, paint them and I also wanted to paint the bolts as well.
All right and the fender flares are off. If you're wondering what's going on behind the
fender flares when you have them on the truck, here's what's going on behind them. You get a
whole bunch of dirt and also this area gets scratched up just because a lot of debris get
in there and the fender flares they move around. So yeah if you're gonna put them on you might as
well never never take them off. I'm gonna try to wash this just a bit and when I'll be polishing
the truck I'm just gonna polish it without the fender flares. It'll be a lot easier and hopefully
it'll remove some of the, well maybe not this one, this one seems to be all the way to the metal.
So I'm gonna have to touch that up before I polish. This one seems to be, this one's not that
bad. But yeah let me try to clean this off a little bit with some water, wipe it down,
see how bad the damage is. But just so you know if you want to install fender flares on your truck
you're gonna have to leave them on pretty much forever and unless you want to repaint the truck.
Unless you want to remove them later and repaint the truck. So be 100% sure that you want the
fender flares on because yeah it seems to be, it's with any kind of fender flare. It's not,
doesn't matter what brand it is. There's always going to be dirt that's getting behind the
fender. There's a rubber piece right here, rubber trim. So it doesn't matter what brand,
what model. There's always going to be debris in that area and it's always going to be vibrating
and pretty much sanding the paint down to the metal or just scratching it. Well let me clean
that up and see how it looks. All right so I cleaned up the area and you guys can see
the damage that the fender flares leave. Get a nice little line. It's like a scuff line. It's
not really that deep. Maybe some areas it's fairly deep. But yeah I had these what for maybe
three four months. Imagine having them on for a couple years. I'm pretty sure they're gonna go
all the way through to the paint, to the metal. My goal is to make this truck as unique as
possible, to stand out the most and not be similar to any other trucks on the road.
And I yet haven't seen one come close. I've seen them lifted with 35s and that's pretty much it.
But I haven't seen them with the soft topper. I haven't seen one with the same side step
and with the fender flares I've seen. But I'll be doing obviously different
painted fender flares and then with the different bolts that I'll show you later.
So I think it's going to be pretty unique. It's going to be it's going to stand out pretty pretty
good. So let's go see what's going on with the fender flares. So yeah let's get this party
started. Let's move the Mustang over and start prepping, cleaning and getting them ready for
paint. All right and the fender flares are done. I really like how they turned out. They have a
nice rough coat to them. So now what I gotta do before I install them on the truck is I gotta
put all the bolts in and then the rubber gasket that goes all the way around. I'm gonna put that
in and then once I get all that done I'm gonna see if I can fit the Silverado in the garage since
it's raining outside and I don't want to really put these on in the rain. I think it'll fit
height wise. I believe it should and I'm hoping it's gonna have enough
space on both sides to work with with the fender flares. Alrighty let's go.
All right so finally finished the bolts and the rubber weather stripping around the edges.
They're all done ready to go. I'm gonna flip the Mustang sideways. I'm gonna see if that if that's
gonna work and I'm gonna push it to the right as much as possible. So it's gonna be kind of against
the rack here and I should have enough room to get the Silverado in here. That way I'm not gonna be
putting this stuff in the rain and I got the lights and I don't need headlamps and it's a little
chilly outside too so it's probably better to do it in the garage. If I can fit it in I think it
should it should clear the roof here. All right so let's get this done and install the the flares.