Boys and girls, after a brief 1 year hiatus, we are back in a Montero! Meet my new girl: a 1989 Dodge Raider V6 manual with the 4.63 gearing, LSD rear end, and a bouncy driver seat!
She's got 181,xxx miles and is overall in fairly good condition.
Not unlike my first gen 1, this one will not pass emissions currently and the overall goal for the build is a fun, light-duty off roader w/ some sweet retro looks.
Before I slowly get into tinkering on this thing, just wanted to highlight my previous two rigs.
The girl that started it all and that I deeply regret getting rid of:
And the girl that took me everywhere...and that I also deeply regret getting rid of:
And in that interim period, this is what I was and still am driving:
The 4runner is a great truck. It just works. I've literally only opened the hood twice. Once when I bought it, and just last week to refill the washer fluid. Try going a whole year like that in a montero haha.. It's so common idgaf and just take it to a quick lube place for oil changes lol. It's got all the power and brake ability and comfort offroad that my old gen 3 never would have had, but it just doesn't scratch that itch... (hence another montero
) Right now I've got it lifted 2.5/1.5" on bilstein 5100s and have some 33s on it. At some point once the used car market calms down I'll sell this and plan to get into a 2017+ Nissan Armada -- what I view as a more modern gen 3.
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![51812685202_f4a45b8711_o.jpg](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51812685202_f4a45b8711_o.jpg)
Not unlike my first gen 1, this one will not pass emissions currently and the overall goal for the build is a fun, light-duty off roader w/ some sweet retro looks.
Before I slowly get into tinkering on this thing, just wanted to highlight my previous two rigs.
The girl that started it all and that I deeply regret getting rid of:
![46816210772_dcdfd53f75_o.jpg](https://live.staticflickr.com/4899/46816210772_dcdfd53f75_o.jpg)
And the girl that took me everywhere...and that I also deeply regret getting rid of:
![50642723776_e6a4e3e07a_o.jpg](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50642723776_e6a4e3e07a_o.jpg)
And in that interim period, this is what I was and still am driving:
![51813647926_1dc92dbf3e_o.jpg](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51813647926_1dc92dbf3e_o.jpg)
The 4runner is a great truck. It just works. I've literally only opened the hood twice. Once when I bought it, and just last week to refill the washer fluid. Try going a whole year like that in a montero haha.. It's so common idgaf and just take it to a quick lube place for oil changes lol. It's got all the power and brake ability and comfort offroad that my old gen 3 never would have had, but it just doesn't scratch that itch... (hence another montero