aside from the cage, were you able to salvage anything else from your wrecked tj? maybe some spare parts just in case?
I took the hard top (sold), the back seat (sold), gears an pinions from both axles (sold them too), the side steps (my grandma has to be able to climb to the jeep), the original add-a-trunk (sold) and all the sensors that survived. TJ's are so rare here that insurance companies know next to nothing of them, officially i was driving topless in the middle of winter and it never had a backseat. Since I removed all the carpets the place were the backseat was looks like the back of a truck
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Your flares are what are usually found on the Sahara which are 1" wider then the basic flare. There is no need to have the tires stick out that far especially when you're using such small tires. Correct for rubbing by adjusting the steering stops and keep the tires in. Running spacers is just an additional thing to go wrong with your Jeep.
I really liked splashing water and mud all over the jeep when I crossed puddles, and since we don't have a law for keeping the tires under the flares here, i was thinking on keeping them, do aluminum spacers have a high chance of failing?