monty back on the road

[bearingman]

:wings: Got the Monty back on the road :victory::smiley_drive:

kinda


drove about 15 miles and burst the rear brake line-so, I gotta fix it.

Read on one of the posts here about the gear ration being on the silver tag under the hood-(i just thought that was engine information), so, if nothing was changed when the vehicle was rebuilt-I've got 4.63 gears in it. I knew it sucked gas for a reason, other than the front axle issue.

BUT, I'm riding again. :coffeedrink:

 

[off-roader]

Well, seeing as this is post 1 in this thread, I'm not sure what broke or how you fixed it but glad to hear the rig's back on the road.:sombrero:

If the rear brake line blew, it might be a good time to also replace the front ones cause they won't be that far behind...

On the other hand if the rear one blew because of a suspension lift in back then you probably need to look at longer lines which should be available but difficult to identify since nobody makes longer lines specifically for Mitsu 4x4's.

 

[bearingman]

it had been parked for about 16 months--broke the crank bolt (I know, shocking that would happen to a monty :Wow1: ) and just hadn't bothered to fix it with gas being $4/gallon when it happened and my ford averaging 38 1/2 mpg.

Started to do the 4.3 conversion-had the engine lined up-but several lifestyle altering occurances side lined that.

Proabably will go ahead and do the front as well. Gotta change the back tonight-repo guy has been to the house 2x for the wife's car-so I have to give up the ford. Samurai needs a valve job, so it may sit too.