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9/15/19: With the spare tire mount situation resolved, I finally got around to putting the rear door together a couple months later. I took the opportunity of having everything apart to sound deaden the back door with Noico and replace the rear door handle with two quick fists for a hatchet...

7/13/19: Let's go back in time a bit because I never updated this thread with my final spare tire decision. If you recall, I tried the hack of flipping the spare tire carrier upside down to accommodate a 33" tire (32" is the max the stock set up will fit). Yes, flipping the tire mount upside...

Isn't this the OEM part you need? 4010A137 part souq has em

Yep, its easy. Check out my build thread

8/28/19: Muffler Update Ok, so I've learned a lot about mufflers since I last posted about my melting floormats. I went to a muffler shop and told them about my leaking muffler and melting floormats. They listened to the muffler with a stethoscope and couldn't hear any leaks but I told them...

8/27/19: Since i had to take the front calipers off anyways to do the runout check on the hubs, I went ahead and serviced the brakes. Pads and rotors are great but some of the caliper pin boots were torn so I replaced all of them, fresh grease, cleaned everything up, and fresh grease for the...

I was thinking about getting the Dobinson's MRR as well but read up on all the threads on the Pajero Australia forums and all the reports on reliability were really bad. Everyone who offroads had failures of the hose coming off the reservoir as well as other things that broke on them with low...

Ya, it was 2 thousands of an inch (aka 5% of a mm) on the hubs which is basically 0 when you factor in the accuracy of the tool and dirt on the surface of the hubs. My wife's MDX has been at Acura of Tempe for the last 3 weeks getting it's engine rebuilt (leaking control rings) and whenever...

I wonder if Gen2 cam bolts are different than Gen3 ones because I don't see any jam nuts or anything in the FSM's alignment section that has any torque specs or refers to jam nuts. It just says to turn the cam bolts to achieve alignment. Here's what they look like from front and back. I think...

8/25/19: Last night I tore into the rig and began testing the runout. Bought a cheap dial gauge from harbor freight with magnetic arm (note - if you find yourself needing to do this, don't get the magnetic arm version because it sucks, get the vice grip flexible arm version at HF instead). I...

8/22/19: Another day, another attempt at fixing these steering wheel vibrations. Back to PepBoys for an alignment check to see if that gives us any clues. Here is what the initial alignment was like after installing the lift, diff bushings, new camber bolt, etc. on 7/3/19: And here is...

8/18/19: Smoke tested Yoshi today (if you own a Gen3, I think a smoke machine is a required tool given all the vac leaks and cracked exhaust manifolds these things are prone to. I have this basic one; it's really simple and feels homemade but it gets the job done and cost less than paying a...

8/16/19 - Mystery Vibrations 2019 UPDATE - So with the new 100% certainty that it is not the wheels or tires, I took it back to the mechanics and they just spent 2 days looking it over and could not find anything wrong with it. They even had 3 techs drive it down the highway with 2 of them with...

8/10/19: Vibrations issues Update. So after having PepBoys work on tires and alignment 3 times (and almost killing me in the process), then Discount Tire roadbalanced the tires twice, I finally took it into a "real" auto shop a week ago for diagnostic work on what is making my steering wheel...

Contd. Next day - drove down to Sedona, hit up the Oak Creek for some swimming and then did Broken Arrow for a totally different kind of 4x4ing. Broken down Frontier blocking one of the busiest trails in AZ. Pink Jeep tour guys were being dicks to the guy and were super mean and upset...

8/10/19: Screw these wheel vibrations, I'm going offroading anyways! Had an epic weekend last weekend in Northern AZ. This Montero is the real deal. Before leaving the house, I hurriedly installed the wiring for the new Harrop eLocker because I knew it would help out a ton in the loose volcanic...

8/10/19 - Update on the compass module mod I wrote about on page 2 - switching out the compass computer for a unit out of a 2001-2002 Montero does not work 100%. Everything works except the Miles Until Empty number. It will read about 100 miles too low. I've tried several tanks of gas and...

My buddy is a huge Land Rover guy - @discoisntdead4x4 on IG. He has a Disco 2 and an LR3. Uses the D2 as his offroad rig and LR3 as the family hauler. They're pretty cool and like you guys, if Monteros didn't exist I might give them a shot but probably not, I'd be a Toyota guy most likely.

But wouldn't the hubcentric rings make it impossible for the wheels not to be bolted on center? Also, odds of 6 shops bolting them skew? But regardless, yes, hurry up and come visit. I got a guest bedroom and a fridge stocked of beer for you.

Oh here's another theory - is it possible Some people run non oem wheels without the rings so no, you don't really NEED them but it's certainly the proper way to do it and have heard of several Monty owners fixing their vibrations by returning the wheels from lugcentric to hubcentric like they...