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Time for carbon brakes, the most grabby powerstop pads are pretty hard core. I've enjoyed them.

This is such a great thread, i should make a thread for a Kings on a Gen 2. ?

I was looking at them today actually, those and and few other things are on my list.

Glad this has been resolved!

I guess while you're in there you might as well add that to the list ?

Glad you did this, i was going to do the same but sold my Gen 3. Hopefully the other Gen 3 owners will follow and start protecting their floors, weather tech makes nice stuff. Looks really good.

I did one better, but you'll have to wait till it's 100% complete. I'll take close photos.

Put some gas in it for the first time in three months!

UPDATE! It drives and with a little tuning and an alignment it'll be perfect. The Kings soak up EVERYTHING! it's insane, it always used to be the front of the truck was a little rough over bumps and the rear was smooth. Now you run over potholes like nothing up front and the rear feels like it...

I have a 1UZ VVT-i and 5 speed auto from an LS400 i'm putting in my '98 after this is done. Build thread here, it's in the parts collecting/brainstorming stage currently. https://www.expeditionportal.com/forum/threads/1998-montero-street-build.205201/ I'll be fabbing everything myself or...

Sorta, two of the rears are different AND the trailing arms need to be addressed.

I'm doing a 2", this is just a job for a friend who insists on running 35's. I'm no longer in the parts business.

I'm making pucks larger than the diameter of the stock mounting points so they'll have more surface area than before. I wouldn't use a plastic because as it deforms you may have alignment issues or worse of a puck were to break once the material dry rots a bit... I made them from aluminum...

Making parts. It's really simple, I'll post up pics when I'm done. Basically it's a hardcore body lift with custom trailing arms thrown in. It could be rednecked for tens of dollars but we're talking about wheeling so material quality and precision is ideal.

If that's your goal just get the King setup in this topic and maybe 1up ChrisCosta416 by adding hydro bump stops. Haul even more ass, these Monteros were built for it.

One of my friends couldn't take no for an answer so I'm currently making a subframe drop and adjustable trailing arms for the Gen 3. The rear has plenty of travel on these to start and the limiting factor for the front is the CV's, above 34's you need to look into cryo treating and...

...tents are stupid.

Working on the details now, torquing down hardware and getting the new brake lines installed. Didn't get a pic of the brake lines before dark but here are some up close of the driver shock tower. It had to be notched to clear the steering shaft, was a pretty tight fit.

I think trunksy even has a 2.85 case kicking around, he and I are in Az aka land of built Monteros.

Back on it's native tire size, brakes, bumpstops, hydro and driveshafts to go. The white truck is now staged for it's V8 swap.