From owner-xj-digest-at-digest.net Mon Aug 7 23:07:22 2006 From: xj-digest xj-digest Tuesday, August 8 2006 Volume 01 : Number 2383 Forum for Discussion of XJ cherokees and wagoneers Brian Colucci Digest Coordinator Contents: xj: fsj: [JGC] Massive rock kills Rowlett man during Jeep excursion - Dallas Morning News (fwd) xj: Jeep engines/transmissions/xfr cases 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: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 10:20:37 -0700 (PDT) From: john Subject: xj: fsj: [JGC] Massive rock kills Rowlett man during Jeep excursion - Dallas Morning News (fwd) ---- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ** http://JohnMeister.com **** http://wagoneers.com ** Snohomish, Washington USA - where Jeeps don't rust, they mold ** http://freegift.net *** http://greatcom.org/laws/languages.html ** - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Joe Hughes Club mourns death during outing along Colorado mountain road 07:31 AM CDT on Friday, August 4, 2006 By IAN McCANN / The Dallas Morning News Jim Parker's friends and riders in other Jeeps first knew something was wrong when they saw his Wrangler flip over as the group headed down a mountain road in southwestern Colorado. Most hadn't seen the massive rock - the size of a watermelon and weighing at least 75 pounds, according to the Ouray County sheriff - rip through the vehicle's canvas roof and hit the Rowlett resident's head. And none knew of the split-second thinking by his passenger, fellow Rowlett resident Nancy Ingle, to grab the steering wheel and keep them from tumbling hundreds of feet down the side of the mountain. They just knew it was bad, and instincts took over as they tried to save Mr. Parker. "Everybody just kicked into emergency mode," George Rice, membership director for the Lone Star Jeep Club, said of the incident Sunday afternoon. But despite the CPR performed by the Jeep riders and a fast response by emergency crews, the 62-year-old died. Services will be at 1 p.m. today at Restland Memorial Chapel in Dallas. After seeing how the rock that hit Mr. Parker had bent part of the Jeep's rugged roll bar system into a "V," many of those with him had known he probably wouldn't survive. A grapefruit-size rock that fell at the same time pierced the Jeep's hood. Any vehicle traveling along the narrow gravel Camp Bird Road when the rocks fell from the roughly 200-foot-high cliff would have suffered the same damage, Sheriff Dominic Mattivi said. "Even the Jeep hardtops are just fiberglass, and a car - it's just thin sheet metal," said Sheriff Mattivi, who grew up in the area, about 70 miles north of Durango, Colo. "I know vehicles get hit by gravel and ice, but I've never known of a rock doing this." The sheriff said recent rains may have caused erosion that freed the rock from the surrounding soil. Mr. Parker and about two dozen other members of the Lone Star Jeep Club had been staying in nearby Silverton and were four to five miles southwest of Ouray, finishing a daylong drive in the San Juan range of the Rockies. Mrs. Ingle told her husband, Brian, afterward that when the rock hit, she and Mr. Parker had been talking about how best to show the terrain of the Rockies in photographs. "It happened in mid-sentence," Mr. Ingle said. "He was slumped over on her. She had to grab the wheel. The underlying thought is, 'I have to get control of the Jeep, or we're going off the edge.' " Mrs. Ingle managed to steer left, toward the side of the mountain, forcing the Jeep to topple onto its passenger side. Drivers behind them radioed the rest of the group that one of the Jeeps had rolled over. Mr. Ingle and Mr. Rice quickly turned around and got back to the accident scene in time to help cut through the canvas top and get Mrs. Ingle and Mr. Parker out. Mr. Ingle realized that his wife's arm was broken and decided to head down the mountain toward a hospital. Mr. Rice drove off and found a house beside the road, where he called 911 about 3:30 p.m. Police and sheriff's deputies arrived less than 10 minutes later. By then, a police car had met the Ingles on their way down the mountain and was escorting them to an ambulance. It took them to the nearest hospital, in Montrose, about 35 miles north of Ouray. Mrs. Ingle was later released from the hospital, and the couple returned to Rowlett on Wednesday evening. David Parker said his father, born in San Angelo and raised on a ranch in West Texas, enjoyed many outdoor activities. He used to fly and later picked up scuba diving. About a year ago, he got interested in Jeep excursions on bumpy, rutted roads. "He considered those people almost like a second family," David Parker said of his father's fellow Jeep club members. He said his father, part-owner of a tax consulting company in Garland, was giving of his time and was as kind to new acquaintances as he was to close friends. On Jeep rides, he would sometimes offer up the driver's seat to total strangers who showed an interest. It was the Ingles, family friends for years, who introduced him to riding through rugged country in Jeeps. "We were kind of a bad influence on him," Mr. Ingle said jokingly. "We have younger boys, so we'd do things like Jet Ski, and Jim would come along with us." And those who met him enjoyed Mr. Parker's company, friends and family said. The Lone Star Jeep Club's Web site, www.lonestarjeepclub.org, has message after message from friends telling stories about Mr. Parker or offering their prayers to his family. "He was so good at sharing his adventures with people," Mr. Ingle said. In addition to David Parker, Mr. Parker is survived by another son, Travis Parker of Fort Worth; ex-wife Faye Hogan of Cleburne; four grandchildren; and brother O.W. Parker III of Big Lake, Texas. E-mail imccann-at-dallasnews.com Yahoo! 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Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 23:06:37 -0700 (PDT) From: john Subject: xj: Jeep engines/transmissions/xfr cases It's time to clear out some of my spare parts: TH400 - universal case - unknown - believed to be good TH400 - universal case - was out of running 327 setup Dana 20 - was out of running 327 setup (attached to a TH400 now) TH400 BPO ring (buick/pontiac/olds) for Dauntless 225 or 350 +others... 1948 - T90 - won't stay in 2nd gear, main gear teeth show damage - works 1975 - 4.2L 258 - rebuilt not long ago, not sure of condition now, maybe ok 1983 - 4.2L 258 - bad rings on #2, apx 130k (out of Superdawg) 1983 - T-5 258 - was rebuilt with World Class V8 parts (out of Superdawg) * 1983 - NP208 (out of Superdawg) * 1989 - AW4 * 1989 - NP231 1989 - rear axle D35 XJ cherokee 1991 - 5.9L 360 - apx 130k - excellent running condition (out of Omega) 1991 - TF727 - needs to be rebuilt (out of Omega) 1991 - NP229 - good condition (out of Omega) 1992 - 4.0L - apx 160k - bad #6 piston/rings - rebuildable 1996 - 4.0L - was rebuilt, but overheated, unknown condition * Some of these items are in Centralia, some in Snohomish, a few of these items are up in Index... all in Washington state. * - might use / keep... john ---- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ** http://JohnMeister.com **** http://wagoneers.com ** Snohomish, Washington USA - where Jeeps don't rust, they mold ** http://freegift.net *** http://greatcom.org/laws/languages.html ** - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ End of xj-digest V1 #2383 *************************