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Good find! I want to try wheeling Montana someday but I keep hearing the wheeling isn't great. Looks amazing.

That makes it simple, probably close to what the Lexus likes too.

Worked on the fuel pressure regulator a couple nights ago. The goal was to hybridize the two. You can see the Montero has two fuel lines, pressure and return where the Lexus has one with a built in return. I feel that this could be done a number of ways and the return doesn't need to be in tank...

@sami_voodoo you did great on your part and I'm not worried about it, I was just stating that you gave me a shorter option in machining my T-case input gear and I declined in favor of what I thought would be quicker. Here I am just now wrapping up this swap after a year.

Turbo.

I'm a slush box man, manuals are too thinky for what I do. Now if I were doing some more spirited driving in something sportier than a Montero, manual all the way. I ran into the issue of one of the A/C hardlines touching the valve cover, this would be a non issue with a body lift. I just...

If you lived down here I'd be pestering you all the time trying to learn everything, especially if it were 20 years back. I didn't have anything to do and was just getting into Monteros. Would have been like Karate Kid but with wrenches ?

He does and I wish I had bought that one, he will machine your supplied input gear to match the Lexus A650 so you don't need the stub shaft at all. I can't even tell you why I chose this one, it made sense at the time. It might have been a much longer lead time and I was impatient ?

I'm glad I'm almost done with this part on mine, wiring makes my eyes hurt ? . I really enjoy you posting up the dirty work of a swap, good work Charlie!

Reshaping the rear quarter, it's coming along. Not terrible. Installed Leo's 160 amp or whatever winching alternator. Stoked for this beast. I broke some motor mounts and that led to my PS line getting tugged on a little and leaking. Need to fix that. Brazed up the pump fitting to be...

I haven't actually looked yet, it should be easy. I had originally wanted to do the Mitsu 8A80! They're not very common even in the rest of the world and the Licensed Hyundai Omega wasn't offered here either and I couldn't find much info on the Equus Tau V8's that came here so I don't know how...

Been doing a lot of plumbing, this is where the work is. I'm using a stock Montero radiator, I had the lower outlet rotated to point directly at it's top right corner and had the top outlet made to point down 75 degrees or so. I fit and brazed them myself to make sure my idea would work then...

With the drivetrain in place i whipped up a driveshaft, we'll call it a practice shaft... .005" runout so not bad for a caveman like myself ...but I was dumb, the trans wasn't bolted to it's mounts when I measured so the slipyoke didn't have enough engagement to make me feel good inside...

Wow, re looked through this thread and it's terrible. I'll fix that. So here's the modification to the A650 transmission, basically after removing the 2WD tail housing you cut down the shaft approximately .25" into the splined section. It's not super critical as there is a lot of shaft to work...

Dang, i haven't updated this thread in a while. Kinda forgot about it, I'll get on that. The swap is basically done but there's been wheeling to do and the Sierra Challenge has all my time going into the blue truck BUT I'm about to get back into this full steam. It needs fluids (which i have) a...

If you order direct from Mark's4wd they come pretty quickly

I also have a Russian Torsen diff carted for my v8 truck

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Comfort level over stock is HUGE, comfort over everything else available for these trucks is so far above even the best over the counter stuff it makes them all seem the same by comparison. They're expensive but they're the last shocks you have to buy for the truck and when other Montero people...

Charlie, no need to apologize i sorta figured it was a for the sake of the thread. As for my rear brakes i only upgraded to vented rotors and i have absolutely no idea if they helped nor before & after temp readings to even notice a difference. I can stop 37's and the brakes don't overheat so...