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Howdy everyone, it's been a while! After having to part with my '94 Montero LS and a handful of years with a Corolla, I'm looking to get back into light trail driving with an offroad truck. Main consideration at this point is going to be location (Portland, Oregon area) and price (thinking...

Location: Milwaukie, OR 1994 Montero LS 12v 3.0L, KYB Monomax Shocks, 2" Body Lift, 33x12.5x15 BFG KO2 on 15x8 -19 steels Headgasket went out and haven't had the time to go through and look at the heads/built it back up. Great for a parts truck!! Recently rebuilt A/T (<2k miles) Price: $2,000...

Fluid drain and fill went well. I'll have to see how summer goes, since it seems to have more problems shifting into OD when it's hot out. The shifter kit looks interesting... Any thoughts on going that route?

Got the body lift installed yesterday. Took 12 hours, but overall not too bad. Heard a bad grinding/buzzing sound when I was driving back. Thought it could be a vac line that blew and want engaging the auto hubs, but turn out it was just fan shroud interference. Moved it down an inch, and no...

Did you get to your lift install last weekend? Also, had my new starter installed. Took the shop a good two hours, so, being a newbie, I'm glad I went that route.

Soon as the rig is operable I'll try to make it out!

Thanks for the tip!! May as well try that first. I'm interested in that project, think I want to schedule checking it out.

Nice looking build! Do you have part numbers/info for the grill guard and JAOS parts? Cheers!

Nope not yet. It got delivered last week, but need to use the truck for a move this weekend, then I'll have access to a floor jack and stands at a friend's place the following weekend. In other news, had to whack my starter to get it going today, so guess I'll need to swap that out soon.

Ditto on attempting to find a good solution for the GPS setup. My suction cup mount doesn't seem to hold up even with my phone, let alone the tablet. Would a ram mount coming off the compass cluster be a decent route? Not sure how much force the bolts could put to that plastic...

Sounds good! Thanks for the input Toasty!

Ahha! Ok looking through my Chiltons I found something about shims and thought there might be more to it. Thanks again for the reply! You figure a Mits dealership would be able to handle that type of alignment? I'm an fng enough that even the body lift prospect is skeeving me out...so might...

Another question: When cranking the torsion bars, the guy working on the alignment said any more cranking would put the tires out of camber. Is there some type of camber adjustment specific to these rigs where I could run more t-bar lift? It doesn't seem that I'm at the full 2" that I should be...

Yep! So electing to go with less articulation while I wait for the body lift to come in.

I think my door plate says March of 94, but that could be the last thing they put on these trucks... Any tips on what I can do to limit the suspension in the meantime before I install the body lift? Something like extended bump stops?

Still working on getting more room to clear the 12.5's better, but here it is!

I'm eyeing the following 4crawler kit for my body lift: 12 body mounts, 2" height D12 (2.5" dia ultimate lift blocks) and Standard hardware + HD12 heavy duty hardware + EH extra (long) hardware comes out to ~$153 before shipping which seems fair. Wm: Thank you for the detailed response! I...

Alternatively, has anyone heard things (good or bad) about Trendsetters for installation of this sorta thing in Portland?

Wondering if someone in the Portland, OR area has done a 2" body lift on a Gen 2 that I could have Elmer me for a bit. I've been doing research and there seems to be two camps: one where there is no brake line/ac bracket issues, and one where there needed to be changes. First bit of research...

Thanks for the heads up, Toasty! I'm sure the front springs are stock on the 94...are the replacement front springs from an SR? Looking around it seems the clearance on other Gen2's is much greater than mine in the front, which makes me wonder what's different between mine and other peoples if...