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Dakzuki
Jun 07, 2015Explorer II
There is a reason you don't see air tabs on truck fleets. What you do see is skirts and tails.
Air tabs are merely vortex generators and you can make your own. Buy some plastic angle stock, cut a bunch of short lengths and try them on one side of the RV....they need to be cocked a bit relative to the air flow to do their thing. You can stick them on with double back foam tape and they will stay long enough for a science project. They don't have to be the same shape as air tabs. After a while if they do work you should see a difference in the dirt from one side of the RV to the other. Just to make sure then move them to the other side to account for the variable of one side being more exposed to traffic vs the curb side. Google images of vortex generators and you'll see all kinds of them.
Air tabs are merely vortex generators and you can make your own. Buy some plastic angle stock, cut a bunch of short lengths and try them on one side of the RV....they need to be cocked a bit relative to the air flow to do their thing. You can stick them on with double back foam tape and they will stay long enough for a science project. They don't have to be the same shape as air tabs. After a while if they do work you should see a difference in the dirt from one side of the RV to the other. Just to make sure then move them to the other side to account for the variable of one side being more exposed to traffic vs the curb side. Google images of vortex generators and you'll see all kinds of them.
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