Well, I didn’t get ALL of the remaining flares installed, but I did manage to get the driver’s rear (labeled Right Rear) installed today. Eyeballed the other flare (marked Left Rear), and it just was not going to fit right… as I mentioned before, all of the other CJs with Bushwackers have the rears mounted reverse of how mine are labeled, anyway.

There’s a trim strip on the bottom of my rockers that came with the Jeep, which I’m not in love with, but I don’t want to expose the ugly, worn paint underneath, so I just busted out the Dremel and wacked about a half inch off the trailing end. I’m not cutting the flares to fit those relics, after I held the flare up and got it where I thought it would look best. Then I marked and drilled the holes for the top 2 screws, loaded them into the flare, and used the flare holes to punch the rest of the holes. Loaded them up with screws and spacers, then tightened everything down. It came out pretty good, although the optical illusion has the leading end of the flare looking like it’s closer to the wheel than the rear, but it’s really not – the leading end is just more angled (which might actually help with aerodynamics… pfft! who am I kidding).

Anyway, here’s the final result (for the driver side, anyway). I’m still not really liking them, but tire clearance is more important at this point. Plus, it does look better now that both flares are on. Oh well… “I can’t see ’em when I’m driving,” as my wife always says when I talk about new rims and/or tires.

That should’ve taken care of the clearance/rubbing issues. I’ll need to take it out for a spin to see if there are any more issues.

Not liking how far the flares stick out, but that’s the trade-off, I guess.

I guess I’ll get the other 2 installed tomorrow.