Yeah, thanks for the searching explanation Ray. That was pretty much my problem!

Why the camel trophy disco? I like the color and thinking about painting the monty similarly.

o ok. I thought you said you are not crazy about the color and you could paint it.

Syntax? So that's why I hate searching, been doing it wrong this whole time. I bet you can go lower then $1700, edmunds.com (TMV) had it around $1250 if I remember right when I was negotiating, but my bank said it's worth $3200. I am moving down to San Antonio in a couples weeks and once I get another ride I am digging into the engine and doing all the fun things we love to do. Do I need to know anything more about dealing with the DMV in TX? I don't know much about smog stuff but did live in Cali for a couple of years with no problem, on base of course and will be on base in TX. Basically if you can get it for around $2000 I think it's a good deal being it's from TX and not MN like mine. And I ask why not go with 12.5 wide tires?

LOL.

Syntax=nerd speak for Program Grammar Rules.

Your English sentence syntax looks pretty good so I know you can learn grammar. Now simply apply that learning to the search engine 'grammar' and you'll be all set. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/lol.gif" alt="" />

Are you importing your vehicle to Texastan? Texastan is getting to be about as bad (read "dumb") as Calistan. You'll have to pay a bunch of importation fees ($90 + $50ish for inspection) and have it inspected before the DMV will allow it to be imported. If you are lucky to not be in a sniffing county you will be fine, inspections are cheaper.

As far as the tire size. I'm not opposed to the 12.5" wide. Could you post a few photos of your truck? I'm hoping to not have to buy new wheels. I did see Dylan's truck with 33 12.50 on the stock rims and like the stance of it. Looks proper.



I like the idea of the 12.50 because it should make the truck more stable (one of my few concerns about monteros).

33x12.5/15 on stock 7" wheels, except in picture 2, where the spare is shown on an 8" wheel.

Both pics show the truck with a 2" body lift installed.

John B.

Ya, my wife is in the Air Force so I didn't really have a choice as to move to San Antonio. We were wishing for Omaha cause of family around here but lucked out <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />. As for pics I just have some before and afters with the stock bubbling rims to black steelies with the 33's (same as Dylan's tires) and the front end cranked to clear them. It's really simple to do you just have to go to a smaller size tire shop cause places like Sears wouldn't mount my wheels with 33's, so you have to cram them in the back to take home. Cranking the torsion bars is as easy as measuring the start height (center or top of rim to wheel well), adjusting/cranking, driving to help settle, measure and repeat if needed. But I rocked my Monty by hand <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/mrt.gif" alt="" />. Dylan's looks much cleaner then mine, keep in mind that mine has lived Minnesota and has almost 160xxx miles, and he has the windows tinted which goes great with the body color. As planned I will probably just park it for a good wrench on the engine before dropping dollars on the cool stuff like the front locker, lift, 35's <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/kewl.gif" alt="" />.

You were talking about a puff of WHITE smoke? White can mean head gasket dying slow death. Something to keep in mind- As other guy said Locks going up and down is Master switch in drivers door dying. You can find them and the rear latch set-up in Junk yards- getting one from dealer is EXpensive. Check out the Montero I just recently picked up- In other post.

I'd say if you open up the top for the seals, and do the gaskets like Toasty says, also consider all the water hoses and the injector seas/seals/o-rings. My VCs were leaking a little and the gaskets were hard as rock. Decided on the injector stuff and ditto to rock hard. I did my water hoses just because since I was changing everything else.

Hey, that's me! And stay tuned, I hope to have some photos of some new little toys to add some time real soon. As for the tires though, yeah the Duratrac 33x12.5's have a great stance and fit beautifully. I didn't even have to crank the torsion bars much at all (maybe 5 turns to level it out?) and no body lift on it either. The only rubbing is some rather minor scuffing on the sway bar at full locked turn.



Ryan's right, the actuator is the problem. I had similar symptoms to those described shortly after putting my proximity lock system in. I traced it to the actuator too, and decided to pull mine apart. It turns out that they don't really have an ability to go bad apart from two little rubber bumper that turn mushy with age. You can see the worn, deformed ones in the photo below in the upper right and left corners. They look like chewed up black bubble gum. I simply cut some new rubber to the needed size, cleaned and lubed the plastic gears, and sealed it back up. Good as new.



Fez, thank you. When I get my next round done, it will look even cleaner though, and certainly not bad for 192K approximately!