Recent content by red97rum

Couple shots out playing around on Pilot Rock Truck Trail in SoCal a few weeks ago.

Well I was able to get the truck within spec and it is good enough for me, at least for now, and it drives nice and straight again! I replaced the upper ball joints on both sides with OEM units that were in good condition and I used washers to re-shim the UCAs about 4 different times until I...

That sounds great, I really hope you can figure something out. I dug into mine a little bit this weekend and found a few things that were janky as hell. Passenger side had no shims, no big deal though as the camber is still within spec, albeit towards the upper limit of the positive...

Got it thanks, will download that! I know it's not too far out at only 0.05, my thoughts are if a add 1mm or maybe 2mm to the front of the control arm it'll get the Caster within the side to side spec and hopefully not be too much that it pushes camber out too positive.

I found this document on one of the Aussie boards, not sure if it is directly for a Gen 2 (sure looks like), but most of what's in there looks like it applies.

No worries, thanks anyway! I'm going to try and mess with it with Sunday if I can work around the rain.

Haha we don't ask questions like that, of course they are worth it lol. If I'm being honest, I'm not really sure now and these heavy ass things also really kill the torque. Thankfully I've got all the parts to swap in a non disco 4.90 setup, so that should help out. I think they will help me...

Thank you, I found a couple older threads with the same advice from Toasty. Do you know the size of washer needed, or rather the size of the control arm bolts?

I hoped that's all it was, but I drove it around quite a bit on pretty flat freeways and it tracks right. I mean it's not unmanageable, but I can definitely tell the difference from how it was. If I ever figure out how to correct it without screwing up a bunch other stuff, I'll post about it.

I wouldn't really mind because I know it doesn't cause any significant tire wear, but the truck does persistently track to the right and I know that will be annoying as ******** on long trips. I'll figure it out one way or the other, thanks for the help.

Hmm, no accidents (that I'm aware of) and the guy doing the alignment just kind of glazed over when I asked him about ride height and adjusting torsion bars.. So he definitely was not familiar at all with the Monty.

Here's a few of my 2.5 WP!

Thank you, I will definitely look into them. Any idea on what would cause the caster to get out of whack?

When I bought my truck I had a very distinct creaking sound coming from the front passenger area, it did this every time I'd leave from a stop or bounce over small bumps in the road. I had just installed all new ball joints, tie rod ends, pitman arm, rebuilt idler with the ADD king pin kit and...

Hi there, hope everyone is well! I recently bought a new set (new to me from a fellow Montero owner) of wheels/tires for my rig, tires are 305/70/16s. The torsion bars required a bit of cranking in order to lift the front, along with slight trimming of the bumper corners and a little massaging...