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Well I guess we won’t be getting any more Monty parts from Russia for a while.

My Montero is a mall crawler so I don’t understand any of this stuff.

Are all your bushings fried? I’ve only ever replaced the upper control arm bushings on my truck, and then just recently the (front) trailing arm doughnuts. Even when I had the trailing arms off, I inspected the rear bushings on it and they looked fine. Why make work? My truck holds an alignment...

This one was tricky, because the leak was intermittent. And with the engine running the leak was blown all over so it was hard to pinpoint. Once you shut it off and walked away, it would drip RIGHT into a spot that would trickle down underneath timing covers and it left no evidence topside. I...

New radiator hoses installed today, test drive complete. No leaks……a little more test and drive to do, observing etc, but 95% sure it’s fixed. $45 pressure test tool was well worth the money.

Update: it may just be a leaky radiator hose. I did a pressure test engine off and only found one source so far. An intermittent spurt from upper hose. It’s amazing how a pressure test without the noise and vibration and air flow of the engine running helps to see things you otherwise couldn’t...

How did you test the FPR?

Got it, so like a head gasket type…..I have no idea what kind I used other than as I said, it would have been whatever I got from RockAuto. Would RockAuto sell more than one type?

MLS type? I would have used whatever I got from RockAuto……

Valley is dry as a bone. No coolant leaks visible topside. Underneath however drips and coolant all over, which makes me think it can only be from the water pump. I just bought a pressure tester so I can try and make it leak without running engine. Based on this I really can’t see it being...

Will be flushing this time before I tear into it. Did not flush last time, should have. Also proactively doing heater core job after this. I’m done screwing around.

I know for sure the pin was removed…..as for hydraulic issue you describe, I have no idea. Once I tear down to it I guess I could check timing belt tension somehow?

All the stuff I am reading online points to contaminated coolant being top of the list. You can’t really overtighten the belt since it’s self adjusting with timing belt…..and the gasket is pretty easy to work with. I did replace the o-ring on the pipe that goes to the back of motor. Plus, no...

I bought the Aisin.

Searching for a coolant leak and it looks like I’ve narrowed it down to the last place I want to think of. The water pump. I just fried a pump in the fall, which was replaced and timing belt job done. Now I am starting to suspect the reason my previous pump failed was more than a manufacturing...

I don’t think fuel sender, fuel level indicator or whatever, will have anything to do with ignition system…..

Also just a food for thought reminder, an incorrect mixture can also sound / seem like nothing is happening……other than eventually smelling gas in your exhaust. I’m thinking something like a fuel pressure regulator being shot….fuel might be going in but no boom. Plus your injector pulse issue...

Give more detail on the starting fluid thing you mentioned…….describe what you are doing and what happens.

So what is the problem? Do you have a no start condition? What about ignition system? Give us more detail about your problem.

Coolant will flow back when cool but there should be hot/cold level markers on the reservoir, totally empty when hot seems like you might be low.