raysobi
Adventurer
Hello All,
I had been reading and lurking for months on Exped Forum, and finally pulled the trigger on purchasing the Gen 2.5 Monty. Initially I was planning to purchase the 80 or 100 series LC, but the more I looked into it, I can not justify spending $ 5000 USD + for 160K truck at the minimum!
Short story -
While I was in Thailand for the project meeting, we traveled from Bangkok to the outer skirt and then I saw this:
I was amazed how awesome the truck look and vowed myself to do more research once I get back to the US, and yes! found this section! (Funny thing is, I was never once tried to click the Mitsubishi section lol, and I wish I could have done it sooner).
This is what I bought, I got it shipped from California.
One thing about the shipper, I had never done this before...they could have told me that the darn truck is too big for the street and I was willing to meet them somewhere...
Exterior pictures:
The Beast! There she is!
Driver side's profile
Front
Passenger side's profile
Baby got back
Interior Pictures
Front passenger
Rear passenger
Summary
Overall, I am delightful with the 14 years old car. This Mitsu had about 73K mile and it drives like a champ.
However, there are several things that I need to look into:
Major repairs
*UPDATED* 8/17/14
I lube the actuator with grease but still no luck.
However, all the gears are working fine except 2WD which I can live without.
Minor repairs
Maintenance**
**if I am missing some basic things, feel free to suggest!
Future Mod/enhancement:
Just bought a mig welder, this should be fun project for me. Last time I welded something was about 10 years ago...helped my dad tig the fences...this is going to be epic fun..or fail :snorkel::Wow1:
This is what on my priority list. I am totally new to this home/garage project thing and I am looking forward to share my long-term project and seek guidance from all of you.
I had been reading and lurking for months on Exped Forum, and finally pulled the trigger on purchasing the Gen 2.5 Monty. Initially I was planning to purchase the 80 or 100 series LC, but the more I looked into it, I can not justify spending $ 5000 USD + for 160K truck at the minimum!
Short story -
While I was in Thailand for the project meeting, we traveled from Bangkok to the outer skirt and then I saw this:
I was amazed how awesome the truck look and vowed myself to do more research once I get back to the US, and yes! found this section! (Funny thing is, I was never once tried to click the Mitsubishi section lol, and I wish I could have done it sooner).
This is what I bought, I got it shipped from California.
One thing about the shipper, I had never done this before...they could have told me that the darn truck is too big for the street and I was willing to meet them somewhere...
Exterior pictures:
The Beast! There she is!
Driver side's profile
Front
Passenger side's profile
Baby got back
Interior Pictures
Front passenger
Rear passenger
Summary
Overall, I am delightful with the 14 years old car. This Mitsu had about 73K mile and it drives like a champ.
However, there are several things that I need to look into:
Major repairs
- AC is blowing hot air..I opened the hood and I could see the hissing noise coming from the compressor, I am suspecting the leakage somewhere...
*updated* 8/17/14
Refilled a Freon and the car is blowing cold as ice....I'm hoping this is all I needed, let's see in a couple weeks. - 4x4 light is blinking when I engaged and disengaged to 2WD mode, I read it somewhere and it seemed like to be a common problem via http://4wd.blogeasy.com/
*UPDATED* 8/17/14
I lube the actuator with grease but still no luck.
However, all the gears are working fine except 2WD which I can live without.
Minor repairs
- When I opened the door, the interior lights will lit up and went off after couple seconds
- Alignment probably need to be done as well, it steered left when I test drove
Maintenance**
- Timing belt replacement -done
- Timing belt pulley - done
- Timing belt tensioner - done
- Water pump - done
- Serpentine/drive belt - done
- Oil change - done
- new wipers - done
**if I am missing some basic things, feel free to suggest!
Future Mod/enhancement:
Just bought a mig welder, this should be fun project for me. Last time I welded something was about 10 years ago...helped my dad tig the fences...this is going to be epic fun..or fail :snorkel::Wow1:
- Custom front bumper
- Custom Slider
- RTT
This is what on my priority list. I am totally new to this home/garage project thing and I am looking forward to share my long-term project and seek guidance from all of you.
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