From owner-fsj-digest-at-digest.net Mon Feb 11 09:30:26 2002 From: fsj-digest fsj-digest Monday, February 11 2002 Volume 01 : Number 1565 Forum for Discussion of Full Sized SJ Series Jeeps Brian Colucci Digest Coordinator Contents: fsj: Re: MJs length fsj: Trailboss's last ride Re: fsj: thinking... Re: fsj: thinking... fsj: How To Get A Real Charge Out Of Life FSJ Digest Home Page: http://www.digest.net/jeeps/fsj/ Send submissions to fsj-digest-at-digest.net Send administrative requests to fsj-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 fsj-digest-request to get a list of other majordomo commands. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2002 22:34:03 -0800 From: john Subject: fsj: Re: MJs length At 01:25 AM 2/10/02 -0500, jimmy b wrote: >A: What's the length difference to MJs? >(width is same as XJ) What about the >longbox J10 and the J20? >From: john >Subject: fsj: Dimensions > >Jeep Dimensions >rig - WB - length - Width >============================ MJ 119.9 195.5 71.7 (bed length 7'4" long bed) >J10 118.8 194.0 78.9 >WJ 105.9 181.5 72.3 >SJ 108.7 186.5 75.6 >XJ 101.4 165.3 70.5 >ZJ 105.9 177.2 70.9 >TJ 93.4 152.8 68.2 >YJ 93.4 152 66 >CJ7 93.5 147.9 65.3 - ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.WAGONEERS.com/ Snohomish, WA - where Jeeps don't rust, they mold... jesus, don't leave life without him, please! - ------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 22:59:43 -0800 From: "Jim B" Subject: fsj: Trailboss's last ride A: About noon yesterday The Trailboss (aka my dad) passed on and left me some mighty big shoes to fill (except for my uncle, I'm the oldest male in the family now). He loved the wild backcountry and fishing at lakes far from the Madding crowd as often as he could. I had planned to take him camping last summer, but my job turned down my vacation time 3 times (I've now gone a year and a half w/o vacation or a raise) due to lack of replacement people. Had I known I wouldn't have this summer to spend with my dad, I would have told them to take this job and shove it! (those of you lucky enough to have family worth spending time with, pull them close because you never know!) He wasn't always the easiest to get along with (till after he quit drinking) but if you knew his background you'd understand. (his Father left home when he was barely a teen, then he ran off at 16 to join the US Army and came back a Korean war vet, promoted to Sargeant in the field after Heartbreak Ridge and the battle at Da Nangh {sp?}) Sometimes I think Clint's movie of that name was about him, but he didn't want to talk about the war and he drank to try to forget it and the internal pain it caused him. I don't really know why I had to send this out, but I did. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 10:44:19 CST From: Dan Black Subject: Re: fsj: thinking... john said: {- Need to figure out what my '99 WJ is worth {- with close to 45,000 miles on it... any thoughts? It's worth $29.95. I'll pay you double that and fly out to pick it up! (Heck, shift the decimal one or two spots and I'd still be very willing to work something out. ;) ) - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It might look like I'm doing nothing, but at the cellular level I'm really quite busy. - -------------- Dan Black ------------------------- dan-at-black.org -------------- ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 16:07:17 -0800 From: john Subject: Re: fsj: thinking... At 10:44 AM 2/10/02 -0600, Dan Black wrote: >john said: >{- Need to figure out what my '99 WJ is worth >{- with close to 45,000 miles on it... any thoughts? > >It's worth $29.95. I'll pay you double that and fly out to pick it up! > >(Heck, shift the decimal one or two spots and I'd still be very willing >to work something out. ;) ) three spots with a little subtraction and we might work something out... ;) my daughter just bought a super clean '91 Grand Am. They had a '94 ZJ Ltd on the lot for about $7,500, around 100K on the clock, very nice, clean and straight, 4.0L with quadradrac... going to see what they'll give me in the way of cash back. We still owe about 15K on the '99, if they come back with a check for $12K I may just go for it. The wife was getting tired of sitting in the jeep waiting for us and it was pouring rain so I didn't get a chance to really drive it or anything, but it is a nice color, no sunroof though.... They were thinking my rig was worth about $21,500 to $22,000 based on the condition/book and miles. I've heard high 19's at the dealer a few months ago on a trade in. So who knows, might work... john - ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.WAGONEERS.com/ Snohomish, WA - where Jeeps don't rust, they mold... jesus, don't leave life without him, please! - ------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 06:00:00 -0500 From: "B. C." Subject: fsj: How To Get A Real Charge Out Of Life Greetings To The FSJ World! The USS GW received a new positive battery lug, and harness combination this past Saturday. For those of you new to the group the USS GW is a 1989. Those who own a GW from this era know that the positive cable assembly is made up of two primary cables coming off of the lug. A 4 gauge that goes to the starter, and and 8 gauge that goes to the starter relay to power the rest of the systems on the rig. On the #4 leg going to the starter is the trigger lead for the starter that comes from the starter relay to the starter solenoid. Time had taken its toll on this harness. It needed replaced. The dealer was looking at around $125 for this assembly. The local parts stores wanted around $95, but none of them had stock on the harness, if they even showed availability in their computer. Then I had an idea. These young generation X guys who like to hop up japanese brand X cars frequently toast the tiny electrical systems when they toss in a big stereo that draws a lot of juice, unless they have this equipment installed by a pro. We have several high end stereo shops here in town that specialize in these custom installations. The guys that do this work build custom heavy duty harnesses all of the time. So I took my existing harness to one of the stereo shops to see if it could be duplicated. Fortunately the installation guy was of the age that he remembered driving HEMI Cuda's when they were new. So I knew that he had some years of experience. For $45 he built me a very sinister looking, heavy duty harness for my rig. The craftsmanship in is work was quite apparent. Far better then what I would have purchased from the dealer. It fit great, and now I have a lot of juice to all of my accessories, and the starter fires over with a vengeance. So if you need custom battery cable you might try looking at a nontraditional supplier; car stereo installation shops. Until The Next Dimension, Admiral "Coluch." Starfleet Headquarters Ohio Post END TRANSMISSION.................................... ------------------------------ End of fsj-digest V1 #1565 **************************