Greetings, Montero EP Crowd
So I am new to Montero's and EP. I have posted a couple of times and many thanks to certain gentlemen that were kind enough to pm me back info. So this is my monty's story. After many hours of pain staking research and personal experience with montero's overseas . I decided you most certainly can not get more bang for your buck with a montero. So after all this research I decided on a 99 Gen 2.5 " winter package" .. I know that I have a good base to start with. My ultimate goal is to travel to South America with the wife for 6 months. Lets see how that goes .. Then if I'm sucessful fingers crossed we can drive it into a container and pick it up a month later in a far off place.
ODometer reads 166,000 .. This Montero was a 2 owner Cali rig most of its life until it came to Oregon . So when I bought this rig the previous owner while trying to be slick put heavy weight oil in to slow an oil leak.. First thing I thought valve covers .. DONE.. Went to Crater Lake National PARK to snow shoe . Come back to the montero and its a puddle underneath .. Limp it back home .. Call my mobile mechanic because Im baffled and dont know mechanicals quite yet .. So much oil was hard to tell .. Get it cleaned up and found what was causing the crank seal to leak. The crank pully was installed wrong when someone did a timing belt and sheared a pin and various other things causing the seal to leak. Replaced the cats. It throws no codes .. However the not so good people down at the DEQ in NE Portland said it smoked. Kinda not really .. What to do ?? .. I'm new to Oregon after many many years overseas working for my Uncle Sam. So I don't have the friends or contacts to register this thing in the country.. Dont want to keep dumping money in this thing and not be able to pass deq.. Can register it a few states a way at my parents place and keep it here .. Not exactly kosher .....
If you read this far it would be great if Oregon guys to get intouch and pass there local knowledge and wisdom on .. IF anyone has a tried and true extened maintance plan they would car to pass along that would be great ....
Thanks Gentlemen ,
MK75 / Marshall
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So I am new to Montero's and EP. I have posted a couple of times and many thanks to certain gentlemen that were kind enough to pm me back info. So this is my monty's story. After many hours of pain staking research and personal experience with montero's overseas . I decided you most certainly can not get more bang for your buck with a montero. So after all this research I decided on a 99 Gen 2.5 " winter package" .. I know that I have a good base to start with. My ultimate goal is to travel to South America with the wife for 6 months. Lets see how that goes .. Then if I'm sucessful fingers crossed we can drive it into a container and pick it up a month later in a far off place.
ODometer reads 166,000 .. This Montero was a 2 owner Cali rig most of its life until it came to Oregon . So when I bought this rig the previous owner while trying to be slick put heavy weight oil in to slow an oil leak.. First thing I thought valve covers .. DONE.. Went to Crater Lake National PARK to snow shoe . Come back to the montero and its a puddle underneath .. Limp it back home .. Call my mobile mechanic because Im baffled and dont know mechanicals quite yet .. So much oil was hard to tell .. Get it cleaned up and found what was causing the crank seal to leak. The crank pully was installed wrong when someone did a timing belt and sheared a pin and various other things causing the seal to leak. Replaced the cats. It throws no codes .. However the not so good people down at the DEQ in NE Portland said it smoked. Kinda not really .. What to do ?? .. I'm new to Oregon after many many years overseas working for my Uncle Sam. So I don't have the friends or contacts to register this thing in the country.. Dont want to keep dumping money in this thing and not be able to pass deq.. Can register it a few states a way at my parents place and keep it here .. Not exactly kosher .....
If you read this far it would be great if Oregon guys to get intouch and pass there local knowledge and wisdom on .. IF anyone has a tried and true extened maintance plan they would car to pass along that would be great ....
Thanks Gentlemen ,
MK75 / Marshall
