One of the first things i did to my xj was to put Bushwackers on my 92xj and now i dont like them they r very expensive to replace i would like to go with something more trail cost effective wat options do i have?

 

Sell em and buy something else!

 

take them off and cut. get the most clearance that way

 

just dont have fender flares....

 

How much do you wanna let em go for? I have stock flares on my 95 that I could ship back to ya...

 

Guyz the reason I want ideas wat to do about bushwacker fender flares is because the only thing they are good for r peeling fenders back, i just wanted to know if anyone had ever had BW's and wat they did when they changed, so if you havent done Kind of hard to say anything

 

i cant find the thread but this one guy actually cut the flares and made them smaller

 

I made some flares out of 1x3 aluminum angle for the front and 1x2 for the back. Wheel backspacing would make a difference in what size to use. I made a template and bent them on a bench vise. $40.

 

The problem your going to have is that no other fender out there is going to cover those holes from the mounting points of the bushwackers. TJ flares dont match up, stock wont even cover them, trimming - well you can only trim so far up but you still will have the holes left from the screws. Ask me how I know this. I have beat the **** out of my bushwackers for the past 3 years when I got the jeep. They have been scraped against rocks, hit trees, and tires rubbed them wanting to rip them off. But they never tore off. (I wasent ever bumpstoped eather, so I was in them alot) Well last weekend they met there match with my new 35's and got tore off on the trail. Bending the **** out of jeep fender.

I wanted to do TJ flares so I picked up a set but they would never cover the holes and would look bad. So I had to figure out what to do. 2 of the wacker mounts got messed up so I had to get some big washers. And the 35's had cracked the inside part of the wacker. The wackers almost like a C, it had cracked the bottom part so I had to figure out something. So I used this nifty tool I found at harber freight, and cut the bottom piece off making it into a pocket type fender flare. Almost like the TJ flares. It made the flare just flexy enough that when the tire stuffs up into it the flare pushes out and tire pushes up into the pocket. They turned out great. I got the jeep flare all the way up to the mounting screws so that I would have alot of open space in the fender for the tire and I get about 3 more inches of stuff now then I did before. And the flares are flexy and prob wont ever breaj eather. I just did this on the front. Im going to try something like it in the rear. If you want i would be more then welcome to take some pics for you and show you what I did. Let me know man.

 

If you do go without fenders you could just weld the holes closed and just grind them down flush. That way you could just start fresh without holes

 

I want pics?

Sounds like an awesome idea.

 

I love mine.

 

mold your own from fiberglass. a hell of alot stronger repairable and half the price to make them. and once you make the mold u can reproduce as many as u want. a bag of mat per flare which is like 5-6 bucks and a gallon of resin is 40$ which should get u throught all four. im working on my own set now.....