From owner-fsj-digest-at-digest.net Wed Oct 27 21:52:20 2010 From: fsj-digest fsj-digest Thursday, October 28 2010 Volume 01 : Number 3641 Forum for Discussion of Full Sized SJ Series Jeeps Brian Colucci Digest Coordinator Contents: fsj: Tools Explained fsj: Anybody else getting craigslist reject emails? fsj: the computer lies 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: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 08:37:39 -0700 From: "Joe Hughes" Subject: fsj: Tools Explained Tools Explained DRILL PRESS: A tall upright machine useful for suddenly snatching flat metal bar stock out of your hands so that it smacks you in the chest and flings your beer across the room, denting the freshly-painted project which you had carefully set in the corner where nothing could get to it. WIRE WHEEL: Cleans paint off bolts and then throws them somewhere under the workbench with the speed of light. Also removes fingerprints and hard-earned calluses from fingers in about the time it takes you to say, 'Oh sh--!' SKILL SAW: A portable cutting tool used to make studs too short. PLIERS: Used to round off bolt heads. Sometimes used in the creation of blood-blisters. BELT SANDER: An electric sanding tool commonly used to convert minor touch-up jobs into major refinishing jobs. HACKSAW: One of a family of cutting tools built on the Ouija board principle... It transforms human energy into a crooked, unpredictable motion, and the more you attempt to influence its course, the more dismal your future becomes. VISE-GRIPS: Generally used after pliers to completely round off bolt heads. If nothing else is available, they can also be used to transfer intense welding heat to the palm of your hand. OXYACETYLENE TORCH: Used almost entirely for lighting various flammable objects in your shop on fire. Also handy for igniting the grease inside the wheel hub out of which you want to remove a bearing race. TABLE SAW: A large stationary power tool commonly used to launch wood projectiles for testing wall integrity. HYDRAULIC FLOOR JACK: Used for lowering an automobile to the ground after you have installed your new brake shoes, trapping the jack handle firmly under the bumper. BAND SAW: A large stationary power saw primarily used by most shops to cut good aluminum sheet into smaller pieces that more easily fit into the trash can after you cut on the inside of the line instead of the outside edge. TWO-TON ENGINE HOIST: A tool for testing the maximum tensile strength of everything you forgot to disconnect. PHILLIPS SCREWDRIVER: Normally used to stab the vacuum seals under lids or for opening old-style paper-and-tin oil cans and splashing oil on your shirt; but can also be used, as the name implies, to strip out Phillips screw heads. STRAIGHT SCREWDRIVER: A tool for opening paint cans. Sometimes used to convert common slotted screws into non-removable screws and butchering your palms. PRY BAR: A tool used to crumple the metal surrounding that clip or bracket you needed to remove in order to replace a 50 cent part. HOSE CUTTER: A tool used to make hoses too short. HAMMER: Originally employed as a weapon of war, the hammer nowadays is used as a kind of divining rod to locate the most expensive parts adjacent the object we are trying to hit. UTILITY KNIFE: Used to open and slice through the contents of cardboard cartons delivered to your front door; works particularly well on contents such as seats, vinyl records, liquids in plastic bottles, collector magazines, refund checks, and rubber or plastic parts. Especially useful for slicing work clothes, but only while in use. Hope you found this informative. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 11:42:19 -0700 From: Jim Blair Subject: fsj: Anybody else getting craigslist reject emails? So far I've had almost 15 of these arrive on posts I replied to over the past month or so. Sorry, the craigslist email address you tried to contact (sale-bzkvt-1865806842-at-craigslist.org) belongs to an ad that is no longer active on the site. - ---- The original headers appear below this line ---- Received: from snt0-omc1-s20.snt0.hotmail.com (snt0-omc1-s20.snt0.hotmail.com [65.55.90.31]) by mxi2p.craigslist.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83EA164D2F for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 10:53:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from SNT114-DS22 ([65.55.90.8]) by snt0-omc1-s20.snt0.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.4675); Wed, 20 Oct 2010 10:53:51 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [] X-Originating-Email: [] Message-ID: From: "jb" <> To: Subject: bellhousing for Wrangler Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 09:19:21 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0005_01CB2D6C.CC408750" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 14.0.8089.726 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V14.0.8089.726 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 20 Oct 2010 17:53:51.0505 (UTC) FILETIME=[C1387010:01CB707F] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 21:51:14 -0700 (PDT) From: john Subject: fsj: the computer lies just topped off the tank in my '99 WJ... hadn't driven it since July, my VW TDI spit up a couple injectors so I drove it to work... twice... 20 miles round trip... each time the gauge dropped 1/4 tank... :) sure, there's lots of traffic, lots of poorly timed stop lights and lots of hills... but still... the WJ's computer said 12.3 mpg... it lies. most of them do... don't trust them... the records show 9.4 mpg, and the math doesn't lie... so when I hear people tell me the mileage they get, then tell me that's what the computer told them I can't even begin to believe them... this isn't the first time I've caught these computers in a lie. ;) Anyway, the WJ is backed into the garage again, the TDI has freshly rebuilt injectors installed, engine codes cleared... topped off the 300D so my wife can drive it... the current batches of biodiesel have been pretty weak, the new processor doesn't make a good brew... the 300D "only" got about 28 mpg... and after $409 worth of injector work on the TDi, it's getting pump Diesel hereafter. it's been getting around 40 mpg in town... I ran almost a full tank of BioDiesel when the code showed up, changed the filter and then an injector started protesting... sure it's got lots of miles, but I'm thinking the fuel finished it off... The 300D is holding up fine but doesn't have a lot of zip... think I'm going to give up on BioDiesel and just sell the WVO by the gallon, and the BioDiesel I get... or find someone that knows what they're doing. :) was thinking of selling the WJ to pick up a cheap jeep xj, but the one I was interested in never called back... we're supposed to have a wetter and colder winter than normal... so having the WJ tanked up and backed into the carport is a good thing... it's awesome in the snow. Speaking of snow, the snow level dropped to about 4,000 feet and Stevens Pass has a foot, the Cascades and Mt. Baker were beautiful today. anyway, hoping that the spiderspikes will work well... both the 300D and the TDI have the same size tires... planning a trip down to Centralia to assist with the reassembly of my J10... john ----- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Snohomish, Washington -o|||||o- where Jeeps don't rust, they mold http://AMSOIL.com/redirect.cgi?zo=283461 si vis pacem, para bellum http://johnmeister.com http://wagoneers.com http://fotomeister.us - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ End of fsj-digest V1 #3641 **************************