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My $0.02 would be not to touch the cam seals unless they are leaking. Sure, they are deep in there and convenient to get at if you already have everything off, but they are more complicated than the rest of the process and if you screw it up it could end up costing you later. I just did my TB...

You should be due for a new belt at 90,000. However with the age of that rig it wouldn’t surprise me if you needed it a bit earlier. Everyone will tell you only use the Mitsubishi tensioner (and I would agree with them). I installed the asian timing belt kit (got it from rock auto 10,000 miles...

Thank you very much! When I first settled on buying a Gen 3 one of my big goals was to make it look good since I think they are so ugly stock. The bigger tires and wider wheels make it drive like a tank too

Good question. This is very common advice, however I think it might be more applicable for different hitch set ups. It would have required a lot of fancy cutting to get the hitch off the cross bar, and then it would have poked out from the plastic bumper, and the bar would still hang down low...

Thank you sir! I did consider the ADD springs but the OME one's fit my budget and a lot of the builds that have inspired mine are running that set up. I am a big fan of the rear suspension on these, but i didn't know that it was like a beefed up evo. That's cool. The front suspension is the...

Another thing i did was shorten my hitch. That stupid thing would drag on everything. I cut 2” out of it, rewelded it and used the removed sections as scab plating. Should be just as strong as before and now it will spend less time dragging all over the trail

The final drawback of the wide wheels was that my sliders also had to be cut down to accommodate the wider turning radius. I needed to take abou 1.5” off of them so while i had them off the car I decided to beef them up a bit. These siders did save my doors once this summer when i slipped off an...

And if you were being observant in the last post you might have noticed… That I scored cheap wheels!! Finally, i’ve been hunting for a wider stance since the second i bought this. I found some Eagle Alloy wheels (set of 5) for cheap and jumped on it. 4 came painted in bedliner and i sprayed the...

I scored an inexpensive (but good quality) light bar recently so i decided to put it on. It’s a 24” Blazer spot/flood combo. Nothing special, but a good step above the cheap Chinese stuff. Used some scrap aluminum that i had to make a bracket for it and cut the grill to match. I wired it to come...

Sounds like your fan clutch is broken. It should click on and off at operating temp.

Thanks for the interest and question! The polk replacement is everyone's favorite for using that spot. Everyone says it fits well and sounds good. As for the trim piece, no modifying is needed. It just fits in behind the factory trim pannel

For what it’s worth, I’ve only ever run regular in mine and don’t have any issues haha.

I’d be happy to answer any questions you might have!

Great thought! New gears are high on my priority list. I plan on sourcing them from a junk yard as soon as I find some. I also hope to score a rear 3rd member with an LSD in it.

After spending a whole summer on the spacer lift i learned a lot about the handling and suspension upgrade needs. The weakest link is saggy springs and bouncy shocks in the rear (but I ended up doing all 4). On the highway it swayed a lot and likes to wonder after bumps. I already want to...

I’ve taken the summer off from updating this build thread. I figure, why spend time on the computer when you can spend time on the trails? This was my first summer season with the montero and it was great to see all the hard work and time pay off! Here is how to Montero is currently sitting...

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Thanks man! Yes I do have the wiring. Went ahead and bought the pre-made harness for it and I’m glad I did. It’s my less of a head ache

I'm running a dual battery and have some info about it on my built thread. it's toward the bottom half of the first page: https://expeditionportal.com/forum/threads/rambo-penguins-gen-3-build.193868/ I will say before getting into it that my tray we a 1 in a million score. The concept and...

Yeah I don’t think it was boiling, but it did sound like it