Well I got my montero running and driving this morning for the first time in a few months since the auto swap. I worked on it all night and finished it up this morning. Turns out the transmission mount i bought was way wrong, so i ended up cutting and welding up a temporary mount out of the 5spd mount i modified to hold my tranny up while i waited for the new mount. As soon as i got it running this morning i headed out to catch up with the other guys out on the trail, and the truck did great! The aussie gears worked fine and i didn't have any problems all day. I never did find the other guys they were hours ahead of me, they were up and heading out around 4 am and was up and working on my truck at 7am trying to get out there. I don't know how those guys do it, i wouldn't be able to enjoy my wheeling adventure on 2 hours of sleep <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/lol.gif" alt="" />. Well they didn't have the right batteries for their FRS so i couldn't find them when i scanned for them and there were very few people on the trail today and nobody had seen them. So i spent the day out on the trail looking and around 3:30 I went home, then after driving for an hour and a half and almost to my house, PA_JERO calls from the trail "I Popped 3 of my tires" so i went home (had to watch my son at 5pm) called around to find someone to watch him so i could go back out and bring some spare tires. Loaded up three spares into my '94, flashlights, water and highlift and headed back out. Met up with PA_JERO and LT, unloaded the tires (had to hurry Only had a Three hour window before i had to pick up my son) so then we loaded the tires back into my truck along with PA_JERO, and We'll go get his truck sometime next weekend. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

Now back to the '87 I didn't really like how it rides offroad, my back was killing me after the trip damn leafsprings <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/barf.gif" alt="" /> well we'll see if a bouncy seat helps.
It was also "different" without any lockers and that sway bar is going in the trash.