From owner-fsj-digest-at-digest.net Sat Mar 25 20:19:03 2006 From: fsj-digest fsj-digest Sunday, March 26 2006 Volume 01 : Number 2608 Forum for Discussion of Full Sized SJ Series Jeeps Brian Colucci Digest Coordinator Contents: fsj: WillysOverland.com Relaunches (fwd) fsj: Re: diesel FSJ fsj: 42RE and tcase questions fsj: trip planning 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: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 07:15:27 -0800 (PST) From: john Subject: fsj: WillysOverland.com Relaunches (fwd) FYI, got this news this morning... 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 ** - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Willys-Overland Motors Hi, This is Jay, owner and president of Willys-Overland Motors with a long overdue announcement; Our web site, which has served us well for eight years, has been tossed. Our brand new site (www.willysoverland.com), with a totally different look and feel, is now up and running. And, I'm happy to say, it now features what you've been requesting for years...an easy to navigate parts catalog. Along with this change, we have also reevaluated and adjusted our pricing structure. While parts pricing will be added to the catalog over the next few months, I think you will be pleased with the numbers you get from our parts specialists on the phone or by return e-mail to your inquiries. While the catalog is large, it is by no means complete, either because of our error or because we just haven't loaded everything yet. So, if you don't see the part you need, don't assume we don't have it...just ask. Also, if our pricing on any item appears to be out of line, please tell us and give us the opportunity to look into the reasons why. Let us either justify the higher price based on quality, completeness, warranty, etc., or fix the problem and become more competitive. Also on the site you will notice an increased focus on those used and often hard to find parts that we have been accumulating over the years. We may just be sitting on exactly what you've been searching for. Still, the only steel Jeep replacement body you can buy that is GUARANTEED to fit your frame, is the exclusive Willys-Overland "Repli-Tub". Check it out here: http://www.willysoverland.com/index.php/WO/replitub/ Finally, as to the "look" of the site, we hope you enjoy the old "Willys" and "Jeep" ads, old factory pictures as well as the pictures of some of the customers who have come to visit. If any of you collectors would like to share any pictures, please send them in and we will attempt to make them a part of the picture rotation on the site. What has not changed, of course, is our promise to get you the correct part, 100% guaranteed, in the shortest time possible. We promise to help with tech support when you need it. And we promise to make available the latest books, manuals, and tools to make your project as smooth as possible. If we fail in any of these promises, please contact me directly, either by e-mail or phone, and give me the opportunity to make it right. Thank you for your continued support. Jay To remove your email from this mailing list, click here: http://www.willysoverland.com/index.php?ACT=5&id=utbwB177Vt ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 12:45:58 -0800 (PST) From: john Subject: fsj: Re: diesel FSJ it's still in work... all the parts are ready, just need to assemble... maybe this year... (been saying this since 2001). :) It'll be great when it's done though... john On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, Wayne E LaMothe wrote: >-->John, >--> >-->I seem to recall that you dropped a GM 6.2 into a J10/20. If so, what >-->was involved as far as motor mounts and exhaust routing? Any big issues >-->to be aware of? I am thinking about the swap into my 88 J10 for better >-->mileage and more towing ability. I has GMC suburbans with the 6.2 and >-->got 14 plus towing a 25ft Holiday Rambler trailer. I want something to >-->tow a two car trailer with my Ambassodors to car shows and really would >-->like it to be another AMC product. Blind loyalty. >--> >-->Thanks >-->Wayne >-->Wayne & Lisa (Skeezix), Bolton Landing, NY, >-->http://www.superglider.thinkhost.com/ >-->AMO#8454, 83 Eagle Limited Wagon, 82 SX/4, 258 auto >-->69 Ambo coupe, 401, M12, 66 Ambo 990 Wagon, 327,PW,PB,PS,posi,AM/FM,AC >-->88 Jeep J10 360, auto- a Real truck >-->2001 Cherokee, 2000 Chrysler Cirrus (both hers) >--> ---- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ** 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 ** - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 21:43:37 -0800 From: "Jim Blair" Subject: fsj: 42RE and tcase questions I picked up a "core" 42RE tonight (works but slips between gears) and I discovered the 4x4 version has a pilot shaft sticking out of the output shaft (approx '95 Grand Cherokee trans off a 4.0L) so I am looking for a Tcase to put behind it. The NV249 I have from a '93 ZJ (with AW4) may not have that pilot hole, but I wouldn't want to run that tcase in my tow truck anyways. (too light for a 1+ ton) I can beef up the trans fairly easily (looking into modding the trans case to accept 727 internals and front pump) and probably will be able to convert it to fully hydraulic control (using the valve body from a '92 Mopar 4 speed auto) so I don't need a computer. It will be going into my '73 J4000 temporarily (Till I get a larger truck's frame to use as a flatbed and put my cab on it) and I'd like to use the Mopar NP208D I have for it (don't think it has the hole already for the pilot). Since I cruise the highway so much and will be doing even more with travelling to Index, WA and back several times weekly (haulling materials for our new place we hope to build this summer) I'd like to keep the higher cruising speed of the setup I have now. (TH400 with a QT with 16% O/D and 3.73 ratio with 33" tires) Anyone ever do this input swap with older NV/NP tcases? _________________________________________________________________ On the road to retirement? Check out MSN Life Events for advice on how to get there! http://lifeevents.msn.com/category.aspx?cid=Retirement ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 20:18:14 -0800 (PST) From: john Subject: fsj: trip planning trying to plan out a trip to south dakota... have rand mcnally streetfinder deluxe but it doesn't appear to be able to help me plan a daily trip based on hours driven or miles covered... any software or websites to plan trips by hrs/day or miles/day??? sure would be nice to put in something like 8 hrs, or 500 miles and have it plot the course... of course chances are good that it'll end me up in the middle of no where... ;) looking at the options of which vehicle to take... did some basic thumbnails on the cost of the 3,000 miles trip: estimated MPG - Gals - Cost '99 WJ - 18mpg 166 gals $3/gal - $500 might see 21mpg (as I did with my first wj) that would save about 23 gallons or $70 '91 300d - 32 mpg 94 gals $3/gal - $281 can reduce this a bit by using biodiesel, deduct about 30 gals - 20 gals in tank and two 5 gal cans - 64 gal or $192 and if the mileage is closer to 40mpg we'd see even greater savings... this looks like the winner... unless of course the J10 could be completed in time... '83 J10 - 18mpg 166 gals biodiesel - FREE (if it can be put together by July 4th can make the trip using what WVO and BioDiesel I should have by then...) On board 40 gal tanks, two 55 gal drums in the bed should just about carry us the rest of the way... ;) plenty of room for more barrels. ;) of course the J10 is still in lots of little parts... but it the perennial hope of completion "this summer" is still there... I still have that '92 xj... and for a mere $1500 could drop in a mercedes 3.0L... but with grad school every other weekend I haven't even found time to fix the flat on the cj-2. ;) the '48 cj-2a would be fun to bring along if the J10 was ready... :) anyway, the question was: any s/w, online tools etc to plan a trip? looking at around 1,480 miles give or take one way... most of the trip out will be on I-90, heading back via I-94 to I-90 with a possible side trip up through Glacier... :) Have made this trip many times over the last 30 years... 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 fsj-digest V1 #2608 **************************