big red fender mud flap removal ?

[dustrunner]

got an es big red front fender.. i got the mud flap bolts out but am not having any luck with what looks like plastic pop rivets on the outsides..... i was thinking i could push the center nub down and out but im not having any luck ? anyone have any tips on this besides cutting them ?:wondering

[Dirtcrasher]

Those are the rectangular steel nuts that never come out ?

Even drilling them, you heat up the fender and it goes bye bye.

I drill them out and then I make them with a piece of aluminum 316. Unfortunately you probably don't own milling machine and a lathe to make them up.

I have never have had much luck with those. sometimes I use a dremel slowly and remove the rectangular portion, Don't get them too hot!!

[dustrunner]

no, i got those metal ones out.. im talking about the ones that look like pop rivet's on the very outsides of the mud flap..

[JasonB]

Didnt know there were anything besides those square head bolts, I had to slowly grind them off my 250 when I swapping the fender out.