I wound up picking up a set of 2004 wrangler columbia edition wheels 15x7, only 8000 miles on them. Mounted the BFG 33x10.5 AT's on them and they look great, not to mention stand taller. They measure 32.2 inches tall. When they were on the 15x8 cragar steelies, they only measured about 30 inches tall. Not to mention that the steelies were a lot heavier than the stock alloys.
Now I get to wait around till interco has a sale to pick up some 33x12.5 or 34x10.5's bias ply's to mount onto my cragars for weekend wheeling trips.
I had to cut 3/4" off of the rubber snubbers on the tailgate to mount the spare.
And yes, I did wind up using washers on my steering stops. Four on each side. That was fun to do while it was raining.