From owner-xj-digest-at-digest.net Fri Dec 24 10:57:50 2004 From: xj-digest xj-digest Friday, December 24 2004 Volume 01 : Number 1983 Forum for Discussion of XJ cherokees and wagoneers Brian Colucci Digest Coordinator Contents: xj: Re: [db,xj,fsj] administrivia: server follies xj: Re: [db] Future engine donour for W201 xj: Re: Question - Benz and Jeep XJ Digest Home Page: http://www.digest.net/jeep/xj/ Send submissions to xj-digest-at-digest.net Send administrative requests to xj-digest-request-at-digest.net To unsubscribe, include the word unsubscribe by itself in the body of the message, unless you are sending the request from a different address than the one that appears on the list. Include the word help in a message to xj-digest-request to get a list of other majordomo commands. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 07:37:45 -0800 (PST) From: john Subject: xj: Re: [db,xj,fsj] administrivia: server follies no problem Richard... we could always resort to how we did lists like this back in '95... :) I ran the FSJ list out of my eudora mailbox... one person would send me a message then I'd resend it via a mail alias to the 50 or so guys on the list... :) of course we're a bit bigger than that now, but that's ok... I have PINE in Linux now. :) john On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, Richard Welty wrote: >-->yesterday morning, a power glitch at the colocation provider for >-->the krusty/digest.net server took out the power supply in the old >-->server. >--> >-->the new server wasn't quite ready for deployment, so at lunch time >-->i tried to get a quasi-duplicate of the old server running. it lasted >-->about 2 hours before a kernel panic, so last night i skipped out >-->of work a little early and rolled the (unready) new server. with 3 >-->days to go before i head for florida for a week, i simply cannot >-->spend any more time fooling with flakey old consumer grade PC >-->hardware. the new server, while unready, is a commercial grade >-->IBM X330, much better stuff than the bottom feeder gear that >-->digest.net has gotten away with for the past 6 or so years. >--> >-->i'm still working through the issues, but things are slowly coming >-->back to a semi-functional state. please bear with me over the >-->next several days. >--> >-->richard >--> (i did _not_ want to deploy new hardware and then leave town >--> for the holidays. sigh.) >-->-- >-->Richard Welty rwelty-at-averillpark.net >-->Averill Park Networking 518-573-7592 >--> Java, PHP, PostgreSQL, Unix, Linux, IP Network Engineering, Security >--> ---- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ** http://wagoneers.com ** ** http://freegift.net ** Snohomish, Washington USA - where Jeeps don't rust, they mold. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 15:01:55 -0800 (PST) From: john Subject: xj: Re: [db] Future engine donour for W201 On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, wmpless wrote: >-->Hi, >-->the diesel engine for the Jeep Liberty is manufactured by Italy's VM Motori >-->s.p.a. This comapny belongs to the DC corporate family and Motori has been >-->producing diesel engines since 1947. Detroit Diesel acquired VM Motori in 1995 >-->and in turn was bought by DC in 2000. This latest Motori engine, the R428 DOHC >-->(a.k.a.) CRD is able to put out 160 hp and 295 lb.ft of torque from just four >-->cylinders and 2.8 litres of displacement. For sure, would not mind having this >-->engine in my car. >-->Feel, John should advise in which MB models this engine can be installed >-->easily. Wiard it all depends on how much effort you are willing to make to mate the engine to the tranny or the tranny to the xfr case... :) >-->As there are more Dodge Sprinters on the road wondering whether there is >-->another engine donour?? that would be a good engine too. :) john ---- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ** http://wagoneers.com ** ** http://freegift.net ** Snohomish, Washington USA - where Jeeps don't rust, they mold. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 10:51:19 -0800 (PST) From: john Subject: xj: Re: Question - Benz and Jeep On Fri, 24 Dec 2004, digitsync wrote: >-->Hi, >-->Very interesting website, I'll look further to sign up soon. sounds good, look forward to seeing you on the lists. :) take your pick, xj, fsj or diesel-benz. :) >-->I saw your front page that you have a Mercedes went off road driving, yeah, that's my boy... he's got a Jeep again now... ;) >-->now I have a question: Is it easy (relatively speeking) to fit a 300D >-->engine into a Jeep Cheroky? I know someone has putted a 300D I know of a guy putting a Mercedes Diesel into an MJ (cherokee pickup), we'll see how that goes... I had a factory XJ Diesel... would think that a 3.0L Mercedes Diesel will go right in without mods... at least major, ;) >-->turbo into an old big truk, lots of room in the engine compartment >-->but it's an ugly looking one. >-->Thanks! see you on the internet, remember the reason for the season is Jesus... (a friend in Austria just sent me a "Christmas Card", it's on my server, front and center... ;) john ====================================================================================== To subscribe to a list on digest.net, EMAIL majordomo-at-digest.net, no subject needed, in the body: subscribe [ fsj | xj | diesel-benz ] end (note: select only one of the options in the brackets) You will need to reply to an authentication message. Add a "-digest" to any of the lists to subscribe in the digest mode (messages are grouped, less traffic). Please do not send HTML, special characters, images, SPAM, attachments or stylized text to the lists. The "FOUR" List Rules: 1) NO flames. 2) NO foul language. 3) keep it Family oriented. 4) keep the subject list oriented. to post, email [xj | fsj | diesel-benz]-at-digest.net to unsubscribe, email majordomo-at-digest.net in the message: unsubscribe (list name) (your email) end ====================================================================================== john-at-wagoneers.com http://www.wagoneers.com http://www.wagoneers.com/AMSOIL/FSJ_filters.html http://www.wagoneers.com/book-info.html http://www.wagoneers.com/BIBLE ====================================================================================== ---- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ** http://wagoneers.com ** ** http://freegift.net ** Snohomish, Washington USA - where Jeeps don't rust, they mold. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ End of xj-digest V1 #1983 *************************