From owner-fsj-digest-at-digest.net Sun Dec 1 22:52:30 2002 From: fsj-digest fsj-digest Monday, December 2 2002 Volume 01 : Number 1803 Forum for Discussion of Full Sized SJ Series Jeeps Brian Colucci Digest Coordinator Contents: fsj: Re: FW: decal bought from web site fsj: administrivia: notes on using this list fsj: Re: front drive shaft maintenance... fsj: Re: Re: front drive shaft maintenance... fsj: RE: FW: decal bought from web site fsj: adventures on I-90 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, 30 Nov 2002 21:17:31 -0800 From: john Subject: fsj: Re: FW: decal bought from web site don't have bob's address... I think the last person who had trouble getting the IFSJA decal found his address on the FSJ-list on yahoo or was it the other list? I don't remember. :) I've got one of those IFSJA stickers, pretty cool seeing SuperKen's truck on it... I still have plenty of the FSJ (superman) logos: http://www.wagoneers.com/FSJ/decal.html Had a pretty good Thanksgiving, we drove the wife's '99 WJ to Rapid City, SD for an emergency family reunion, her brother has cancer and isn't expected to last much longer... :( damned cigarettes... He's only 52 years old... Anyway, it was good to see the in-laws, weather was decent... almost home, in Missoula, MT tonight, should be home tomorrow... Got to see Mt. Rushmore again. :) john At 08:20 AM 11/30/2002 -0500, Dennis Fariello wrote: >Mornin' John, > Looks like we've got another lost IFSJA sticker. I don't remember who > it was who's selling them, only that you were so wonderfully helpful last > time. Was it Bob Couillard? Do you have his email address handy? > Thanks. > My next question would be for Adam... why am I getting emails about > this? > Hope y'all had a great Thanksgiving! > -Doc >-----Original Message----- >From: flowerpower40 [mailto:flowerpower40-at-msn.com] >Sent: Saturday, November 30, 2002 8:09 AM >To: fariello-at-evcom.net >Subject: decal bought from web site > >Hello >About a week ago i bought a ifsj decal from the web site and paid with my >paypal. Could you please help me find out why no one has sent me a email >regarding this sale and why i have not gotten the decal yet?? please help >if you can or tell me who i can talk with . >Thanks Randall Durbin >flowerpower40-at-msn.com ========================================================================== For Full Size Jeep help see: http://wagoneers.com/FSJ http://wagoneers.com/FSJ/tech - technical information http://wagoneers.com/FSJ/rigs - pictures of FSJ's http://wagoneers.com/FSJ/FSJ-list.html - FSJ list on digest.net http://wagoneers.com/FSJ/digests - list digests more info at: http://www.wagoneers.com/FSJ/FSJ-info.html ========================================================================== Snohomish, Washington, where Jeeps don't rust, they mold... remember, leaving life with out Jesus isn't recommended... ========================================================================== ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 01 Dec 2002 07:15:01 +0000 From: Richard Welty Subject: fsj: administrivia: notes on using this list Digest.Net mailing list "Meta FAQ" These general notes on using Digest.Net mailing lists are posted on the 1st and 15th of each month. This file may be found on the web at http://www.digest.net/general-notes.txt [last revised 5/1/02; removed list of spam strings, as i'm not the only one filtering on them -- rpw] Additional information on Digest.Net's spam policies may be found at http://www.digest.net/email-policy.html and http://www.digest.net/blocked.html Table of Contents 1. Why don't my postings go through? 2. Why can't I unsubscribe? 3. How do I post to the list? 4. Where are the archives? 5. What other lists are on digest.net? 6. Is there a web subscription form? 7. Why not move the lists to someplace like (egroups, topica,...)? 8. How do I contact the server adminstrator in an emergency? 9. What is Krusty Motorsports, anyway? The Meta-FAQ 1. Why don't my postings go through? There are several things that may interfere with postings making it to the list. a) Are you a member? Some read the ftp archives rather than receiving the list in email. Persons who read the list via email are automatically members, but readers of the FTP archive are not, and need to contact me (rwelty-at-krusty-motorsports.com) and get your name added to the list of "permitted senders". b) has your email address changed? some of you have had changes in your email address. your old address still works, and is still on the list, but your From: line shows a new address. this can happen for various reasons; you may have changed jobs or ISPs, and left a forward in place, or your IT staff may have fiddled with the email system. you will need to unsubscribe your old email address and subscribe the new one. this may require my involvement, if you can't figure out a way to get your old address off the list using the conventional majordomo commands. you can use the majordomo "which" command to probe for old addresses. send a message to majordomo-at-digest.net with one or more which commands in the body, one per line. to check for potential addresses for Fred Flinstone, formerly of bedrock.org, the following commands can be sent: which flintstone which bedrock note that the matches above might return any of the following addresses, if they appear in the list (in other words, you can use vagueness and incompleteness in your recollection as a tool): Fred.Flinstone-at-bedrock.org fflinstone-at-wilma.bedrock.org flintstonef-at-bedrock.com c) do you have more than one email address? if so, only the subscribed addresses can post, unless you contact me (see 1.a) above for relevant information) d) are you using (intentionally or accidentially) special "features" of your mail client? [this section is no longer operative, as the demime software now strips html, attachments, rich text format, etc. from postings automatically.] e) are your posts too large? there is a 10,000 character limit on posting sizes; this is done for various reasons. you can always split up large postings to get mail through. f) are you including majordomo commands at the start of your message? administrivia control is turned on; this is a trap for things like "unsubscribe" at the start of a message. try to avoid obvious majordomo commands in the subject and the first 10 lines, or misspell them in obvious ways (e.g. unzubscribe, 1ndex, h3lp, g3t, etc.) g) are you triggering spam traps? some things are red flags; for example, many phrases found commonly in spam are automatically blocked. h) are you using "funky" character sets? [7 bit restriction lifted experimentally on 8/2/00 -- film at 11] unfortunately, there are "issues" if i permit any character set other than old fashioned 7 level ASCII; therefore, you need to avoid national character sets that include various accents, umlauts, national currency characters such as the British pound symbol, etc. i) are you unintentionally including complete digests in your reply? You need to check and make sure you cut down replys to the minimal size; digests are between 20,000 and 25,000 characters in length, and if you include a complete digest in your reply, it clearly won't make the 10,000 character limit. By the way, this feature is intentional. j) Are you using a "bad" ISP or mail relay? See http://www.digest.net/email-policy.html for more information about Digest.Net policies about email. k) Is the error message you get back "User Unknown"? If so, you may be running afoul of spam control severices (again, see http://www.digest.net/email-policy.html) When these services register a hit, the error code 550 is returned. 550 is a generic code that many broken mail systems report as "user unknown". The "rejectlog" entries for the previous day's mail traffic on digest.net may be viewed at http://www.digest.net/rejectlog.01 Some of you may find it useful or instructive to use the telnet program to connect directly to port 25 on krusty-motorsports.com and see what kind of reply you get; this requires some technical knowledge and is not for everyone (you can get out of this at anytime after the initial banner simply by typing quit and hitting enter.) l) Is SMTP over TLS involved? This is a bit esoteric, but as of 8/8/01 the digest.net mail server will attempt to use "TLS" (Transport Layer Security) for outbound mail if the destination mail server offers it. SMTP over TLS is fairly new technology, and a bit buggy. I am monitoring the logs on the server, and when I see TLS related problems, I manually place the problem destinations on a special exception list; however, this may delay email to the destination host until I make the exception. 2. Why can't I unsubscribe? a) are you using the right address? send to majordomo-at-digest.net, and the command format is unsubscribe list-name my-email-address b) has your email address changed? majordomo has no way of knowing that Fred.Flinstone-at-BarneyCo.com was once fflintstone-at-bedrock.org. you can check this with the which command (see 1.b) above for details) 3. How do I post to the list? You may use either one of two addresses: for example, the bmw-digest may be reached using either bmw-at-digest.net or bmw-digest-at-digest.net If you are using the correct addresses and your posts don't show up, check out the stuff in 1. above. 4. Where are the archives? see ftp://ftp.digest.net/ for digest archives. the web archives have proven problematic, and are awaiting time for a systematic attack on the problems they've been having. 5. What other lists are on digest.net? see http://www.digest.net/ for more information. 6. Is there a web subscription form? Yes, recently added. go to http://www.digest.net/bin/digest-subs.cgi 7. Why not move the lists to someplace like (egroups, topica,...)? The Krusty Motorsports server (aka, digest.net) was explicitly to provide for efficient management of the various automotive mailing lists, done the way that the owner of the server wanted it done. Any migration off of the server (which is already bought, paid for, and configured) would create any number of issues. 8. How do i contact the Server Administrator in an emergency? If my regular email address (rwelty-at-krusty-motorsports.com) isn't working for you, you can fall back on rwelty-at-suespammers.org 9. What is Krusty Motorsports, anyway? Krusty Motorsports (http:/www.krusty-motorsports.com/) is a business which is owned and operated by Richard Welty (rwelty-at-krusty-motorsports.com). Krusty is an S-Corporation in the State of New York. Krusty provides a number of Internet related services, such as mailing list, web sites, pop3/telnet accounts, and consulting on internet related issues. For more information, see the web site. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 22:52:39 -0800 From: john Subject: fsj: Re: front drive shaft maintenance... I'm pretty sure your front drive shaft spins all the time whether in 2wd or 4wd on your 99 XJ. It's quite possible that your front double-cardon u-joints are dry, very common issue, my '88 xj had the same problem. (that's the big double ujoint gizmo up near the xfr case) On the older FSJ's the u-joints on the Quadratrac units would fail and destroy the TH400s! I've actually met someone who had the front driveshaft fail on a lifted YJ and it came up through the floor and busted his leg! Take care of that front driveshaft on any of the Jeeps (XJ, SJ or otherwise) that don't have front hubs... or axle disconnects... Other possibilities include the front axle R&P or wheel bearings, but less likely. Get those u-joints lubed or replaced before they come apart and destroy something... seriously... john meister At 10:53 PM 11/30/2002 +0000, xj-digest wrote: >Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 06:58:06 -0800 >From: "Joe" >Subject: xj: Re: 1999 Jeep Cherokee 4x4 >I'm a "newbee" to the digest, so please forgive (and advise) me if my format >is in error. >I'm seeking advice on a 1999 Jeep Cherokee 4x4 with SelecTrac that seems to >be much louder from the front end, as speed increases, when the vehicle is >in full-time 4WD supposedly acceptable for dry surfaces. Furthermore, when >shifted into 2WD on-the-fly the front hubs do not seem to unlock until I've >stopped and backed up, because the roar continues. Is this normal? I >formerly had a Grand Cherokee in 1997 with SelectTrac that was not louder in >this mode, and I also have a 1998 Durango with a similar transfer case (with >FT4WD mode) that dosen't exhibit these same symptoms. I can only describe >the increased noise as a "roar": there's no clanking, clunking, grinding, or >whine, but just a roar that gets noticeably louder above 50 mph than when in >2WD. I normally, of course, don't even use 4WD on pavement, especially at 50 >mph or more, but I was "checking out" this used car with 36K miles that >otherwise appears "like new," inside and out. > >Thanks, in advance, for any advice: what to look for (or possible repairs >required). > >Joe >jhc1-at-starband.net - ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.WAGONEERS.com/ Snohomish, WA - where Jeeps don't rust, they mold... jesus, don't leave life without him, please! - ------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 07:58:58 -0800 (PST) From: john Subject: fsj: Re: Re: front drive shaft maintenance... On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, Joe wrote: >-->Thanks, John, for the advice! hey, that's what these lists are for! :) After the success of the original FSJ list I knew that we'd need an XJ list too. :) Most of the folks on the original list are still on it, I think... when I quit editing for that evil commercial site I got kicked off of it, so I started this one afresh. :) >-->I didn't realize that the shaft turned, regardless, so I'm away to the lift My '87 XJ has the front axle disconnect, I think, will have to look again, having about 8 or is it 9? XJs, I forget... I'm up to 21 or 22 fsj's now... ;) http://wagoneers.com/johns-vehicles.html Anyway, on my '88 XJ the front driveshaft spun all the time... and that's why I know about that noise... >-->next week to check that out. Your advice may help prevent not only a >-->horribly expensive problem, but one that could be dangerous if the whole 9 >-->yards dropped down at highway speeds. it usually breaks up top, I think... and since it's attached to the front axle it'll flail about and tear things up pretty bad... The double cardan joint is a lot of fun to do... it's kind of like a rubics cube with grease. :) >-->I appreciate your response. >--> >-->Best wishes for a healthy, blessed, and happy holiday season. same to you... we're in Missoula, Montana, last leg of the I-90 journey back to the green side of the mountains. Had a great time with the in-laws. john >--> >-->Joe >-->----- Original Message ----- >-->From: "john" >-->To: ; >-->Sent: Sunday, December 01, 2002 12:52 AM >-->Subject: xj: Re: front drive shaft maintenance... >--> >--> >--> >--> ---- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ** john-at-wagoneers.com via PINE on Linux ** (plain text please!) ** http://wagoneers.com ** ** http://freegift.net ** Snohomish, Washington USA - where Jeeps don't rust, they mold. ...and remember, leaving life without Jesus just isn't recommended... - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 01 Dec 2002 21:01:10 -0800 From: john Subject: fsj: RE: FW: decal bought from web site thanx Adam! btw, is that the Bob that had the mishap at Ouray? I never did hear the full details of that story... just glad all involved are ok... john At 06:28 PM 12/1/2002 -0700, Adam Zeimet wrote: >On the front page of the IFSJA site, on the right, there is a link to >Bob's sticker site. On his page there are links to his email address >and his home mailing address. > >Adam > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: john [mailto:john-at-wagoneers.com] > > Sent: Saturday, November 30, 2002 10:18 PM > > To: Dennis Fariello > > Cc: adam-at-ifsja.org; fsj-at-digest.net; fsjeeps-at-smartgroups.com; > > FSJparts-at-yahoogroups.com; FSJ-List-at-yahoogroups.com > > Subject: Re: FW: decal bought from web site > > > > don't have bob's address... I think the last person who > > had trouble getting the IFSJA decal found his address on the > > FSJ-list on yahoo or was it the other list? I don't remember. :) > > > > I've got one of those IFSJA stickers, pretty cool seeing SuperKen's > > truck on it... > > > > I still have plenty of the FSJ (superman) logos: > > http://www.wagoneers.com/FSJ/decal.html - ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.WAGONEERS.com/ Snohomish, WA - where Jeeps don't rust, they mold... jesus, don't leave life without him, please! - ------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 01 Dec 2002 21:50:35 -0800 From: john Subject: fsj: adventures on I-90 2,499 miles later... we're back... safe and sound. great time, beautiful scenery... snow, ice, wind, sun, cold... Great visit with the in-laws... (left Tuesday, got home tonight (Sun) about 8pm) One thing I learned on this trip, no, two things I learned: 1) "fear the deer" 2) dodge cummins 4x4 pickups are great "road condtion testers" 1) saw probably 50 deer on one side of the road or another, even saw a few live ones off in nearby fields... "fear the deer" might be a good idea for a bumper sticker and a reason to get a serious "brush guard". Didn't see anyone hit one, or any accidents as a result, but there were a lot on the roadsides from here to there... 2) heading up out of Couerdelane (sp?) Idaho up over the first serious pass watched a gal swap ends and bounce off the jersey barrier and almost invited a double trailer semi and us to join her in the fun... the only thing I can figure is the torque from the Diesel was too much going up the "hill" that was coated with a heavy frost. She bent the back bumper and disconnected her tail lights... THEN, this morning coming up out of Missoula, MT there was some fog and below freezing cold and a few of the hills had some slick spots... saw another Dodge PU laying on it's side in the median... So, the way I figure it, I don't want one... :) My J10 never had problems on slick stuff and with Quadratrac it won't be a problem ever... :) The '99 WJ did great on the road, cruised all day long at around 75mph without a whimper, almost 20mpg... Even ran up to Mt. Rushmore on Friday... got a nice picture of the Grand Cherokee with the MT. in the background, didn't get to stay too long, my brother-in-law wasn't doing very well so we had to cut that adventure short... :( later, john - ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.WAGONEERS.com/ Snohomish, WA - where Jeeps don't rust, they mold... jesus, don't leave life without him, please! - ------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ End of fsj-digest V1 #1803 **************************