What did you do to your Mitsubishi today?

ctdfab

Observer
Changing out my oil cooler lines on my gen 3 as one decided it wanted to start leaking. ...caught the leak before the oil light or any engine damage occurred.

I think I must have run over something because the plastic "skidplate" has a small hole right under where the hoses are. So now custom steel or aluminum skid plates are now higher on the priority list
 

Sabre

Overlanding Nurse
Changed my oil and filter the day after I did the same on my wife's Volvo S60. Wow, it sure was nice to have all that room under the Mitsu! Lying on the creeper with the Volvo on ramps I'm almost wedged under there...very claustrophobic! I could camp under the Montero! :)

Oh, received in the mail two new Timken front wheel bearings. The driver side is starting to growl at me....
 

Igorskiy86

Observer
Got around to doing some work on my radio harness, replaced my factory sub with one from Polk Audio, sounds great.

Took my truck to watch king of the hammers race.
 

jeep-N-montero

Expedition Leader
Well I did something... or, rather, completed something.
Last winter my mechanical fan had a blade break off, take out the upper radiator hose and a few other things along the way. So of course coolant spilled out everywhere, temperature gauge spiked, and smoke billowed. All while my wife was driving on the way to a very important meeting in rush hour traffic, on a bridge with no shoulder and bumper to bumper vehicles. Great. She got it pulled over safely as soon as possible (traffic suddenly moved and she was over and shut off in 30 seconds.)

After working out what actually happened, I got the hose repaired and checked that everything was still working proper. Didn't overheat. All good. Except I'm driving a Pajero, in Canada. We never got the Gen II montero, and a Mitsu dealer won't even look at you here if they see you're in a Pajero, and if you call and say you have a montero they know you're lying. They won't source a part. So, I couldn't find a mechanical fan, nor an aftermarket one that would fit on this fan clutch. Maybe I could have swapped clutches...not sure. No parts at any accessible wreckers just across the border, and it was prohibitively expensive to buy one from a dealer and have it shipped.

Soo.... on to today. I finished installing a temperature controller for my electric fan.
16 in electric fan attached by brackets to radiator mounts, pulls air through. Have a fan shroud but it needs modifications to fit and haven't had a chance yet. So, don't worry, it will eventually have a proper shroud.
Fan is wired to a relay, relay is independently fused through an accessory fuse block near the battery. Relay is switched by a 12v temp sensor/controller unit I found from ebay. They are often used in home-brew set ups and in commercial refrigerators and such. Fully programmable to temp that the output leads switch the relay on, and at what temp it switches off. Sensor is NTC thermsistor, however I swapped the probe that came with it for a threaded one that was installed in the upper radiator hose via an adapter pipe. I had used the fan controller that came with the fan for a few months and didn't like it. Its just a rotary dial that changes activation temp, but you never really know what temp you're running on and such. And the probe just shoved in between radiator fins. Not great. This system I know exactly the coolant temp as well as having my sensor right in the coolant flow.

Found out if the car overheated, the control unit just read "High" and wouldn't output to the relay, so I ran a dummy switch just in case. Fused, relay etc. Made wiring diagrams to keep handy just in case. All good! Fan comes on at 100 Celsius (T-stat fully open temperature) and cools to 96 when it switches off. May adjust this later.
Also, I know the whole mechanical vs electrical fan argument. I considered all that jazz. I live in a cold climate, it's been more than adequate, I'm not worried. Can always bolt on mechanical later if I want.
Check it out.
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You'll also see my digital voltage gauge there.

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This is the inline adapter that is tapped and threaded on the bottom side of this for the sensor. The top has a brass plug for the hole it came tapped with.

Is it a single or 2 speed fan? Pulled any long hills or mountains yet with the e fan?
 

jeep-N-montero

Expedition Leader
I'm almost done Salvaging my Power Windows. I unmounted the window and removed the linkage to roll the power windows up and down. I also cracked open the motor and cleaned it out and lubricated everything with WD-40 White Lithium grease. Here is a sneak preview to an upcoming tech post I'll write later next week. How to Salvage your Power Windows.

Check this out.

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I will be doing this soon as well, my driver window is very slow to go back up below 30 or so, need to clean and grease the tracks before it kills the motor.
 

jeep-N-montero

Expedition Leader
Today I test fitted the rear ladder I removed from a Discovery last week and ordered new Akebono pads front and rear, fun stuff.
 

Red Monty

Ancient Adventurer
Working on a sleeping platform

I've been building a sleeping platform now for several weeks into my '91 Montero 4dr. I went to Overland Expo-East and got inspired by Shayne Youngs Camel Trophy Land Rover, which has everything. He was nice enough to show me around even though I no longer have a Land Rover.

I would like to winter in Baja next year, but don't know if the old bus could go that far from Michigan and back??

George
 

earljuic3

Adventurer
Had my dealer install new style crank bolt and washer, fan bearing, new water pump, new tensioner and idler pulleys, new driveline belt, new timing belt, new tensioner, all new fluids, transmission flush and fluids, crank seals, cam seals // o-rings on my GEN 3 yesterday!
 

miloe79

Observer
I cleaned my battery terminals this morning, my 95 SR wouldn't start all I could hear was "click,click,click" @ first I though it was the starter, so I pulled it out cleaned it, tested it and it worked, I put it back and turned the key over and NOTHING!! So I thought maybe it was the key switch, I removed the bolts from the steering wheel, took it apart, took off the switch,tested it and it was fine! At this point I was a bit frustrated and tired, I did some more research on line and ran into an article that mentioned cleaning the battery terminals, so I went back to the Monty cleaned the corrosion off of the terminals (which there wasn't much) put everything back together and VOILA!! the car started with out hesitation! The point is that if you're having trouble with your car, start with the easy stuff before taking everything apart like I did, do some research is FREE, most of the time is something so simple and easy to fix and it won't cost you a lot of $$. I was about to go buy a new starter and relays!! I'm glad I did some research..
 

cnutco

Adventurer
I wheeled my Montero a bit today and ended up bending my passenger side running board, again, as I was gingerly maneuvering between a rather larger bolder and a cliff. Looks like it's time to remove them and start planning for rock sliders.


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Marutuk

KK6WFB
I wheeled my Montero a bit today and ended up bending my passenger side running board, again, as I was gingerly maneuvering between a rather larger bolder and a cliff. Looks like it's time to remove them and start planning for rock sliders.


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Yeah, remove the boulders, no more bending things then :)

I had some generic driving yesterday, but tried to fix my radio issues as the grounding didn't appear right. (no luck so far)
 

cnutco

Adventurer
Yeah, remove the boulders, no more bending things then :)

I had some generic driving yesterday, but tried to fix my radio issues as the grounding didn't appear right. (no luck so far)

Ha! I tried moving the bolder with my truck, but no luck.


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