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Hey Fullerrj, Those are 33's in all the photos, with 16 inch rims off of a Tacoma TRD. Hope this helps with your upgrade process. Love to see pictures of your rig when you get it all installed if you go that route.

Update. Although removal of the spacers helped, I was still not happy with the tracking after driving the Montero in a bunch of different conditions. I got to looking more closely at the Hunter report, in particular the number for the toe-out on both rear wheels. After putting some pieces...

Sounds good, keep us posted!

Here's the update. Took the spacers off yesterday, and thankfully no more tramlining on the freeway so they were the culprit. My guess is that the positive scrub radius caused by the spacers, along with changes in geometry associated with the lift, was the issue. I also had an ABS fault coming...

Good point, they were hub centric.

The issues are new, i.e they weren't there before it was out of spec. It had though developed a new front end vibration between 60-70 mph before the suspension and tires were messed with. Scnitzandgiggles, regarding your question at the bottom, the one alignment shop I took it to said they've...

Just going over the Hunter report, here is it if anyone is interested (ignore the top 1/5 of the page, those are the specs prior to the alignment): Here's my written summary of it (just wrote this up for my benefit, thought I'd include it in case it helps): Front: Caster left is -1.8, Caster...

Well, now I have a new problem. At highway speeds, now it wanders.... really badly. It's manageable until hitting the semi truck ruts on the four lane, then I'm in my lane plus half the other two on each side of me. I know about vehicles with larger tires wandering, my truck has 35's and it...

Great photos RAWags44, really nice looking rig. Good to hear yours turned out well. I think I can see why your spacers worked and mine didn't. As you mentioned, yours are shorter, and also, the rears look like they have seats for the springs. Mine were just flat with a raised center that fit in...

Hey great to hear your in the area maximluchnik. Sounds like your Montero will be a great project for you and your Dad. There's alot of good stuff around here for trails and mud for sure. I think some of the closest trails are accessible from fireroads just a few miles of east of Greenwater...

Congrats on your new rig maximluchnik! They're such awesome vehicles, not sure if there's anything more well built, unique, versatile and capable from that era. As for why I went with the Dobinson's, I looked at both Dobinson's and OME, as well as Adventure Driven Design which Evomaki mentioned...

Got the new kit in, here's some photos. Major improvment in the ride quality, like 100% better than it was, including when the bilsteins that were in there were new. Really impressed with the Dobinson's kit quality. Plus threw in some new half shafts on top of it. Thanks again to everyone for...

Nah, I wouldn't do anything different. Always up for a learning experience, and got the chance to refine my spring compressor safety technique so that makes it worth it right there.

Ok, so here's to posting my thoughts on the end result, in case other 3rd Gen owners out there are considering lift blocks. Long story short, I wouldn't recommend it in the least. Although I've used lift blocks in other vehicles over the years and had no misgivings at all, this was one...

Thank you very much for the cautionary/ potentially life-saving advice on the spring compressor usage Schitzangiggles. I think we're on the same page; I've always had serious misgivings about using spring compressors for the reasons you're stating, and this actually was my main problem with the...

Thanks evomaki, really appreciate the thoughtful reply and all the advice. Glad you mentioned the spring perch slipping out. That was another aspect of the problem that showed up, so I'll check out your post on that. I'm going to work on it today and will keep thread followers posted on...

Good point, I appreciate the thoughts. Monteros are well worth keeping around.

Thanks for the reply jeep-N-Montero, although I do find it a tad bit condescending. Aren't all of us adults well aware of the cost of "cutting corners"? This being said, I don't see it as cutting corners, but just a matter of intentionally electing not to unnecessarily invest excessive money in...

Thanks Plh, I'll look into that option.

Hello Everyone, new to participating in the forum here although I've been a longtime reader and appreciator of it. My question is pertaining to our 3rd gen Montero Limited. We've had it for over ten years, it has almost 230k on it and is still going strong (the only real problem it's had is...