Rebuilt the front end. New poly tuff bushings, UCA, cleaned & painted LCA, pitman/idler arm, brake lines, tie-rods, and sway bar bushings.
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Time for a few small cosmetic touches.
Cleaned, sanded, primed, and painted various external things. The bash guard cleaned up nicely. The cross bars were pretty gross so I cleaned them and painted them with bed-liner. Then I filled in some deep gouges that were in the bumper ends. It's...
Taking care of some interior items. I didn't realize at first that the brake lights weren't working. The hazard switch was completely fried and broken into pieces. I cleaned the contacts and superglued the switch parts back together which solved the brake light issue. Now the hazards work as...
Ran into a small problem. After installing the new water pump and timing and buttoning the front of the engine back up, coolant started to run down the back of the transmission. The waterpipe that goes into the back of the water pump didn't seat as well as I thought it did. Pulled the intake...
Made it home. Celebrating with some NM Beer. Also, these initial posts will be a consolidating a couple of months time frame to catch up to current.
I noticed coolant dripping from behind the harmonic balancer, hard to see the waterpump with the timing cover but assuming its dripping from...
Hi all,
I'm relatively new here, but I wanted to start a thread to document fixing and building out a 1991 Montero that I bought as a project. I want to have some documentation to reference for myself in the future and help anyone if they're working on a similar project.
I recently moved to...
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