Fender flare mounting questions

BobK

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When I was removing the faded factory flares from the TJ, several of the screws were inserted into captive nutserts in the body. Several others were attached to a piece of black plastic backing up to the inner fender. When removing several of these that were behind the inner fender liner, there was no apparent way to grab them so they fell into the inner fender liner.

1) is there a way to easily retrieve them?
2) if no, what can be used if I decide to re-install the factory flares after cleaning them up? and how do I get these backing pieces back there.
3) is there a mounting kits readily available to replace all those rusty screws?

I am torn between new wider flares (Bushwacker or Rugged Ridge) versus cleaning these up with Forever Black and/or spraying them with the bedliner product I am thinking of using for the body tub.

Bob
 
You're talking about the rear? The fender liners can be removed/moved out of the way, then you hold them with pliers. A couple of mine had fell at the front and back of the liner and were just laying there. When I put new Rubicon flares on my LJ, I got this kit from Amazon and replaced all the plastic nut things front and rear. They worked well.
 
Just a note, the 05 and newer are metric for the find thread ones, the coarse I am not sure of. I am installing rivnuts and 10/32 stainless hex screws for the one I have to replace. Tim
 
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