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If the insides of your engine look anything like the outside of the truck it's probably in great shape, these trucks have very good cooling systems despite what you'll read and hear. Keep up on it and it will keep your engine cool for a lot of years even climbing at altitude, out wheeling or...

Nice! That would suggest your engine runs on the cool side of operating temps which is common for a 12v 3.0, thanks for sharing! Looking forward to the next set of images. This stuff really interests me.

It doesn't have to be rock crawling, rutted dirt will make a Montero tippy with sway bars. Keep them on unless you go offroad a lot, you can get really comfortable in these trucks with a tire waaaay off the ground because they are very well balanced. It feels weird but you get used to it, my Gen...

More from Fullmonty's stash. At our campsite at Rubicon Springs near the waterfalls, the broken Gen 3 CV shaft, Cadillac Hill and Miller Lake camp.

I'll get some more up and pressure the other guys to post more too.

I just put Tokico Trekmasters on my Gen 1 LWB, the fronts were still the high performance blue. I like them a bunch, curious to see how they do with all new bushings and balljoints.

_The Sidekick kicks ass, it does the most with the least. A lot of that is driver skill but it is a very capable machine, if you can be a minimalist as far as what you pack a Suzuki will take you more places than most 4x4's. _ The only down side to the Suzuki isn't a down side at all but it...

Chad, do you have an IR thermometer? Mine runs just below where yours does, I'm trying to learn on a Gen 1 V6 what temps are relative to the needle and how many degrees inaccurate it is.

More from Fullmonty, these are leaving the lake and toward Rubicon Springs. Right near Rubicon Springs the prototype Jeep Pickups caught up to us in their tattered car covers looking like they had just had a really fun day.

Also from FullMonty's collection, these are from around Buck Island.

1.9TDIZook, you should do Fordyce with us in 2020 so Rascott won't be the only Suzuki guy! The 'Con has changed a ton just since i've been going (my first trip was in '13), In Az our trails go through cycles too but for more natural reasons. We get flash floods that move massive boulders and...

Some from Fullmonty, these are at the start of the trail. It was smokey but still beautiful.

The best way is to disassemble the engine, pop the freeze plugs out and dig it all out but that's a lot of work but with stop leak stuff it may be necessary. I had to do that with my diesel, it really wasn't terrible and when i was done i knew it was clean. I say just keep working at it.

Just keep at it, I don't use chemicals or corrosives in cleaning cooling systems but i have rehabbed a number of these things. Start with no thermostat then I flush, fill, drive it hard and repeat. Depending on how bad it is i'll start with hose water then start working in distilled, then...

_Yeah, there was a time 40" of tire and serious skill was needed to drive the little sluice but there was also a time you could drive it in a 2WD Buick. Now you can do the Little Sluice on 31's with rock sliders in a mid wheelbase rig. RTF maintains the trail to keep it open and that part is...

Means a lot coming from a LEGEND! I'm going to post up a bunch of pics from Fullmonty's stash

Looks slick dude!

Man, you guys may not know this but i was almost a Landrover guy. Had i gone down that path I'd probably be a millionaire but i chose Monteros, maybe i should build Discos and Rangies to fund my Montero addiction.

_Keep wheeling with us and you'll get there Hooots! _Here's what you guys interested can expect, 8-10 days of non stop wheeling and it's all challenging. We typically do one or two main trails alternating between the Northern and Southern Sierras different years, sometimes like this year we did...

I thought it was clever. One of my original ideas for the company name was Mothfūkel Engineering but nobody liked it. Those days are gone and I'm just Toasty meow.