fsj-digest Wednesday, December 1 2004 Volume 01 : Number 2315 Forum for Discussion of Full Sized SJ Series Jeeps Brian Colucci Digest Coordinator Contents: fsj: Anyone with a 350 Re: fsj: Re: ideas for popcorn - walter middy motors... Re: fsj: Anyone with a 350 fsj: Re: Re: ideas for popcorn - walter middy motors... fsj: Re: Anyone with a chev 350 fsj: Fuel Sender Needed fsj: Re: Fuel Sender Needed 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: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 21:08:29 -0800 (PST) From: jeremi smyers Subject: fsj: Anyone with a 350 I am looking for an older 350 motor complete for a 66 wag. I am doing a conversion and am looking or a good running 350, also if you have a good GM (not amc) Th-400 case that would help too. Thanks jeremi 1966 wagoneer <----mine all mine Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 22:00:51 -0800 (PST) From: john Subject: Re: fsj: Re: ideas for popcorn - walter middy motors... On Mon, 29 Nov 2004, Jim Blair wrote: >--> Back to the "how do we cool this heavy thing?" land again so soon? I've nah, cooling ain't a problem... paying $450 for a custom radiator instead of having the time to figure something else out wasn't. ;) >-->been doing some research on Toyota motors for doing an XJ conversion. 2L-T >-->seems to be the choice so far. (that's what the one I recently missed out on >-->for $500 was) I just found http://toyotadieselmadness.com/ for some ideas to >-->peruse. (still need to test the diesel to gas automatic trans conversion >-->ideas) yeah, keep me posted... who knows what I may attempt or end up with... :) you haven't read all your email yet... decided to keep superdawg, shadowfax, the '99 wj and sell off everything else... :) john ---- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ** http://wagoneers.com ** ** http://freegift.net ** Snohomish, Washington USA - where Jeeps don't rust, they mold. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 22:02:40 -0800 (PST) From: john Subject: Re: fsj: Anyone with a 350 you'll need a BPO case (buick -pontiac-olds) the 350 is a Buick engine... I have a friend up near Index that has an '81 360 V8 he wants to part with, it was in my son's Wagoneer... my buddy is replacing it with a 258. john On Mon, 29 Nov 2004, jeremi smyers wrote: >-->I am looking for an older 350 motor complete for a 66 wag. I am doing a conversion and am looking or a good running 350, also if you have a good GM (not amc) Th-400 case that would help too. >--> >-->Thanks >--> >-->jeremi >--> >-->1966 wagoneer <----mine all mine >--> Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. >--> ---- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ** http://wagoneers.com ** ** http://freegift.net ** Snohomish, Washington USA - where Jeeps don't rust, they mold. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 08:01:35 -0500 From: "Neal Hoover" Subject: fsj: Re: Re: ideas for popcorn - walter middy motors... WOW! thanks for that link! a buddy of mine has been trying to get new pistons for his Toy 2L-T motor but to no avail. i'm sure this site will give new life to the project. thanks! Neal A. Hoover Project '76 J-10 Project '96 XJ http://community.webshots.com/user/proj96xj - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Blair" To: "xj-list" ; "full size jeep list" Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 11:58 PM Subject: fsj: Re: ideas for popcorn - walter middy motors... > Back to the "how do we cool this heavy thing?" land again so soon? I've > been doing some research on Toyota motors for doing an XJ conversion. 2L-T > seems to be the choice so far. (that's what the one I recently missed out on > for $500 was) I just found http://toyotadieselmadness.com/ for some ideas to > peruse. (still need to test the diesel to gas automatic trans conversion > ideas) > > > you know it's probably not a good thing leaving me > unsupervised in a vehicle for an hour and a half to two > hours every day... too much time to think. ;) > > Ok, the half-baked ideas previously posted have seen the light of > day and the lunacy revealed (ok, it is a full moon ya know. ;) > > I'm wondering what would be better to pursue (read: dream about): > > a 6.2L/700r4 Grand Wagoneer (know of a late 70... ;) > or > a 3.0LTD/AW4 XJ (Cherokee) > > the idea is economy, 4wd, daily driver capable of towing my trailer... > > either rig has to be nice and clean... Putting the '77 300cd > on the GMC chassis just doesn't seem right... fixing up the Jimmy > and driving it doesn't appeal to me either... too big, same reason I > got rid of my last one... ok rigs otherwise... The 6.2L isn't the > best Diesel ever made, but they're decent. The 3.0L Turbo Diesel in > the Benz is a decent engine as well and should propel an XJ within > reason if I can mate it to the AW4. > > Of course there are issues to deal with... both the 3.0L and 6.2L I > have now would need to be rebuild or freshened up a bit and are in > vehicles that have value as runners... not to mention the amount of > time and effort involved in swapping them... time and money, are > bitter foes. :) (In fact, the '77 300CD, '83 300D and even > the '83 GMC Jimmy are for sale...) > > This Diesel Jeep idea > is more of a long term project... perhaps > just another Walter Middy motor adventure. :) > > If my wife thought my J10 were "more practical" I'd probably put > the 6.2L in there instead of the 4.0L... actually... maybe I should > open that idea up again... I've got a buyer for the GMC chassis... > (actually > two possibly). My J10 is a truck and a 6.2L in it would fit and > be nice. We have the WJ that's "practical" and the '91 300D for > nice trips... The J10 has what I want for a daily driver and we'll > see 20mpg easliy with it... plus the brute force for towing. The > 4.0L is a sweet motor but just a wee undersized for the J10... even > though the J10 came with a wimpier 4.2L... the mileage estimated could > be upper teens to low 20's... I KNOW the 6.2L will fit and get that easy, > in a bigger box it does 20mpg... I think the worst I ever got with > my other Jimmy was 18. > > where's the popcorn? too much time on the freeway... :) > > john > > > ---- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ** http://wagoneers.com ** ** http://freegift.net ** > Snohomish, Washington USA - where Jeeps don't rust, they mold. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 08:52:26 -0800 From: "Jim Blair" Subject: fsj: Re: Anyone with a chev 350 A: They came stock with Buick 350s, but if you want to run a Chev motor, you will need the TH400 off one and swap your output shaft, etc into it. I posted a link to Sort4x4.com of a guy in CA that has a TH400 for sale off a Chev (had a motor too) From: Jt Dunno marriedlasvegasguy22-at-yahoo.com Subject: Anyone with a chev 350 I am looking for an older 350 motor complete for a 66 wag. I am doing a conversion and am looking or a good running 350, also if you have a good GM (not amc) Th-400 case that would help too. Thanks jeremi 1966 wagoneer <----mine all mine ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 19:43:22 -0700 From: "Matthew Dehait" Subject: fsj: Fuel Sender Needed Anybody have a good working fuel sender for my '80 Wagoneer that they might be willing to part with? I know, I know, you can get them from Chrysler, BUUUUUUTTTTT, I work at a Jeep dealer and I've been through four already that are messed up. How, you ask? For starters, the potentiometer reads backwards from how it should. When we reversed it and tried it, it wouldn't make the gauge go all the way to full, it only goes to about 1/3 of a tank. The other thing that Chrysler sent me a letter saying was normal is that the arm is pretty hard to move. In any case, and ideas or a sender that works correctly would be appreciated. Matt ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 21:34:44 -0800 From: "Jim Blair" Subject: fsj: Re: Fuel Sender Needed A: They are selling you the sender for a later model ('86 up to be exact) Go to http://www.bjsoffroad.com and get the right one! (I used one in mine already) Anybody have a good working fuel sender for my '80 Wagoneer that they might be willing to part with? I know, I know, you can get them from Chrysler, BUUUUUUTTTTT, I work at a Jeep dealer and I've been through four already that are messed up. How, you ask? For starters, the potentiometer reads backwards from how it should. When we reversed it and tried it, it wouldn't make the gauge go all the way to full, it only goes to about 1/3 of a tank. The other thing that Chrysler sent me a letter saying was normal is that the arm is pretty hard to move. In any case, and ideas or a sender that works correctly would be appreciated. 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