Izaac
New member
Hi all,
I'm relatively new here, but I wanted to start a thread to document fixing and building out a 1991 Montero that I bought as a project. I want to have some documentation to reference for myself in the future and help anyone if they're working on a similar project.
I recently moved to Denver and have the space for a project car; I also wanted something that was more rugged than our Subaru Outback to plod around trails with. My goal is to make this reliable enough for road trips, light offroading, and camping. I was interested in 80 series landcruisers, but I landed on this Montero as I thought it was more unique than everyone and their mother's 4runner/Tacoma (at least here in Denver) and half the price; this one popped up on my radar as being a clean southwest vehicle. I knew the PO through some mutual friends, and I love the Rally pedigree they have.
The odometer says 240,000, but there's inconsistency with the reported mileage, so I assume someone replaced the dash cluster at some point. To my knowledge, it sat in El Paso for an unknown amount of time. There was no rust, and overall its very clean, just a bunch of red dust caked on the passenger side wheel wells and engine compartment.
I picked it up in New Mexico with the plan to trailer it back to Denver. It came with some uninstalled Bilstein 4600s so before we departed NM I installed those and replaced the dry rot tires with some Goodyear Wranglers (cheapest on sale). Since the Montero was running, I wanted some cheap tires to drive around town on, but I plan on upgrading to something bigger later on.
First time seeing it in person.
The Interior is in pretty good shape, aside from the center console falling apart and a few gauges that don't work.
Saggy old shocks out and new Bilsteins in.
Loaded up on this beast for the 10-hour drive back to Denver.
I'm relatively new here, but I wanted to start a thread to document fixing and building out a 1991 Montero that I bought as a project. I want to have some documentation to reference for myself in the future and help anyone if they're working on a similar project.
I recently moved to Denver and have the space for a project car; I also wanted something that was more rugged than our Subaru Outback to plod around trails with. My goal is to make this reliable enough for road trips, light offroading, and camping. I was interested in 80 series landcruisers, but I landed on this Montero as I thought it was more unique than everyone and their mother's 4runner/Tacoma (at least here in Denver) and half the price; this one popped up on my radar as being a clean southwest vehicle. I knew the PO through some mutual friends, and I love the Rally pedigree they have.
The odometer says 240,000, but there's inconsistency with the reported mileage, so I assume someone replaced the dash cluster at some point. To my knowledge, it sat in El Paso for an unknown amount of time. There was no rust, and overall its very clean, just a bunch of red dust caked on the passenger side wheel wells and engine compartment.
I picked it up in New Mexico with the plan to trailer it back to Denver. It came with some uninstalled Bilstein 4600s so before we departed NM I installed those and replaced the dry rot tires with some Goodyear Wranglers (cheapest on sale). Since the Montero was running, I wanted some cheap tires to drive around town on, but I plan on upgrading to something bigger later on.
First time seeing it in person.
The Interior is in pretty good shape, aside from the center console falling apart and a few gauges that don't work.
Saggy old shocks out and new Bilsteins in.
Loaded up on this beast for the 10-hour drive back to Denver.
