I had basically the same Mitsubishi Montero with a manual tranny and a regular gas motor. It went like crazy on 4wd trails but I never liked the motor. (I actually had TWO of the motors! ) I heard the overseas diesels were great!
In fact, I was frequently up on Windrock Mtn not that far from you Terry!
The original engine of this car was 2500 gasoline.
I changed the engine into 2500 Turbo Diesel without the need to modify the engine room.
With the big tire oversize to 31 inches, the speep could reach 150 km.s/hr top speed and the power at low RPM low speed was much greater than the original.
The advantage is I can install the original part like Winch that use power from the transmission system. All supplies come from the Junk as Thailand had alot of junk from Japan.
With the big tires, it is better to use Manual Transmission.
The bigger tire create much more Engine Break action that may destroy the Automatic Transmission easily.
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