Damaged Mud flaps/floor pan

[1averageguy]

We have a 2006 34ss and recently had a mouse issue in the heating system. When I went to pull apart the tin pans above the rear duals to repair the duct work, I found a new problem.

There are mud flaps forward and backward of wheels. The flaps behind the wheels are in perfect shape and I'm planning to reinstall them as is. The front flaps have apparently overtime from wind pressure cracked the tin pan they where mounted too and gotten into the wheels. Seems like jayco wasn't thinking about longevity when they screwed flaps exposed to the wind to flexible tin. As a result, the flaps have gotten into the wheels, I'm planning to replace the flaps, and repair the pans are cracked.

My question is on the cracked pans. I'm planning to rivet new tin in place to re-enforce the tin by sandwiching new material front and back. This will help a bit, but has anyone done additional work of adding some angle iron or other re-enforcement to prevent this from happening again? Or is this more of a one off failure and I'm the unlucky guy here? There isn't a lot of structure to build on behind the tin pan.

[Grumpy]

Originally Posted by 1averageguy

This will help a bit, but has anyone done additional work of adding some angle iron or other re-enforcement to prevent this from happening again? Or is this more of a one off failure and I'm the unlucky guy here? There isn't a lot of structure to build on behind the tin pan.

The rubbing flaps were common, but I'm surprised you just found them or did you buy it used? All I did when we had our 08, was cut the front flaps shorter which eliminated the problem. Can't address the metal panning.

[1averageguy]

My plan for replacement on the flaps was to take them down to a local materials shop here and just have them cut from similar materials. Did you have any issues from shortening them? It's certainly an option with the damaged ones I still have.

[Grumpy]

Originally Posted by 1averageguy

. Did you have any issues from shortening them? It's certainly an option with the damaged ones I still have.

No, since the water coming off the tires does so near the top.