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That's all folks. She's gone. Can't say it has been all sunshine and rainbows but when I had her out doing what she was designed for it was awesome. Thanks for all the help, guidance, and encouragement. Here's hoping the new owners keep her going for another 15 years at least.

$3500 anyone?

Hey guys, I need to get rid of her pretty soon as I'm moving across the country and won't be able to ship the Montero. Anyone want to save her from the junkyard? PM me an offer.

Well, all good things must come to an end. The Montero is back up and running, honestly better than it has since I bought it. The shop did a great job getting it going. That being said, I'm done. I don't have time to wrench on it... hell, I barely have time to type this out. 12+ hour work...

$1100 over the phone by the dealer though I dont trust that estimate. The service dept pushed it over to the parts guy who pulled four hours labor out of a hat. Spoke to a local shop and he estimated $1300 but wanted to inspect the crank for damage before anything else. What do you guys...

The tensioner referenced there is the serpentine tensioner, not the TB tensioner (which I used OEM for). The coffee can metaphor noise was caused by the belt slapping under the hood. Once I put on the other belt no crazy noises until my final 2mi drive. For the four teeth thing, I ran across...

https://www.expeditionportal.com/forum/threads/eyeintheskys-gen-3-budget-build-thread.163629/post-2183937 Here's a quick write up from when I did mine. The biggest thing is having a jack tall enough to lift your wheels off the ground at full droop. Not that big of a job.

Well nwoods, you might be in luck on that motor for your Gen 3. I know of a 6G74 with a year and a half on a top and bottom rebuild that desperately needs a timing belt job, that amazingly seemed to side-step getting the timing knocked off by the crank pulley coming loose! Just pulled the...

Spot on. That roll pin is nowhere to be found. Not sure of the Woodruff key at this point. In your experience, which of the symptoms most indicates jumped timing? I originally thought the P0303 sensor could be the most indicative, but the unbalanced pulley could have messed w/ the reluctor...

Finally got the crank pulley bolt off with the little electric impact. Things are not looking good. The bolt and washer are fused together (I couldn't knock the washer off w/ a hammer): The pulley itself has been ground down significantly on both sides: The lower timing sprocket has been...

After an evening and following morning of research, I think this kills the Montero. On the way up to my camping trip I lost AC. It worked briefly, but then the snowflake light started flashing and it wouldn't push any cold air. First clue something was wrong with the serpentine belt, but I...

Oh boy. I'm way out of touch here. Sorry all for any who were following. New job, new house, all kinds of distractions. Nothing special until recently; was using her as my DD to get to the train station for my new job (65mi drive each way, so yes, train). No major issues except a slight...

I went through the plastic and the sheet metal directly below. Not exactly sure what you would call that piece. Just drilled straight through and bolted. I'm going to fab an angled pipe soon to slip over the bolts as they are tilted down a bit farther than I'd like.

Mine have large rubber washers between them and the bumper. Honestly I have only used the lights a couple times when I was offroad so I didn't notice any excess vibration.

Just shocks, KYB Gas a Justs. For springs you're pretty limited. OEM, Lovells, and OME as far as I can tell. And they're all very expensive. I have zero desire to lift my Montero. I have 265/75R16s on here and that's plenty. The ground clearance is great already (and if you want to feel better...

No lift on her.

Hissing sound was caused by me missing a bolt connecting the plenum to the manifold. Handled that and got the throttle body gasket installed the right way and sent her up into the mountains with my wife and a bunch of little girls from our church. Believe me, my fingers were crossed. She got a...

Hoo boy. Sure has been quiet here for a while. Haven't done much until today. Took the old girl back to the shop that rebuilt the engine to troubleshoot the lean codes three weeks ago. Just got it back yesterday. Their "mechanic" replaced a coolant line. At least they didn't charge me, but holy...

From my understanding your trims should be +/- 5% most of the time. The 12.5 at idle is bad, and means your ECU is dumping more fuel into the system to maintain the stochiometric mix of 14.7-1 air to fuel. Check the last couple pages of my build thread for my slaying of the 02 sensor gremlin...

Specs show 2.6, so three. Prices for GL-5 are about $6-12/qt.