From owner-fsj-digest-at-digest.net Fri May 10 09:16:54 2002 From: fsj-digest fsj-digest Friday, May 10 2002 Volume 01 : Number 1639 Forum for Discussion of Full Sized SJ Series Jeeps Brian Colucci Digest Coordinator Contents: Re: fsj: Re: Re: New to the list fsj: Re: Ouray KOA news fsj: hey fsj: Four X Doctor 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: Tue, 7 May 2002 11:13:40 -0700 From: "Jim B" Subject: Re: fsj: Re: Re: New to the list A: If you only had 1 tire off the ground then times 2 gets you about 4:1 (4.09 was common) which with big tires will give you nice freeway speeds. From: "Darrell Ramey" Subject: fsj: Re: Re: New to the list I won't be able to make it this year. I am due to be stationed in Santa Barbara, CA (ROTC Assignment) on 20 August. The old J3000 is mechanically sound and road worthy now but not real pretty to look at if you know what I mean. I even plan on driving it to California when I leave El Paso with my daily driver in tow. There is a question I have for the list though. While I had my front end off the ground changing brake cylinders, lines, shoes etc etc etc..... I decided to check my differential ratio by doing the old drive shaft twist vs. tire twist and I came up with two turns of the drive shaft to one turn of the tire. Now in Kentucky that equals out to a 2:1 ratio but I've never heard of a differential that low (or high) of a ratio. I even did it three times just to make sure I didn't miscount or something. To take it one step further I even twisted the tire and counted the shaft turns and the same out come. On my Blazer I have 5.13:1 gears (40 inch Ground Hawgs) and it takes 5+ turns of the shaft to one turn of the tire. The best I can tell is I have Dana 44s but like I said earlier I ain't very Jeep smart yet. The old girl is kind of sluggish on the get go but has outrageous top end speed, so it kinda makes sense that the ratio is accurate. Am I missing out on something here?? Darrell ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 15:59:33 EDT From: Brazzadog-at-aol.com Subject: fsj: Re: Ouray KOA news >Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 21:56:07 -0500 >From: "Vince Orr" > >Got my reservation at the KOA today and Virginia said there is some sort of >Toyota 4 runner club hitting the trails about the same weekend as the FSJ >invasion. > >Space is tight so if you haven't got a room or a camp site, you need to move >quick! However, the Toyota folks aren't finalizing their reservations as >quickly as the FSJ folks so there is an opportunity here. I got one of their >camp spots! This sounds like they're giving away previously made reservations. I made my reservations a month or so ago. How, exactly, do you "finalize" a reservation? I'm wondering if there is something about the whole "reservation" concept that I don't understand. Ben Williams '71 Wagoneer '78 F-250 4x4 '88 Bronco ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 22:33:40 -0500 From: Joe Schuster Subject: fsj: hey Hello, my name is Joe and I would like to say hi,and say that all of the pepole on this list are full of tons of helpful information.I live in Wisconsin and am a new owner of a 1987 Grand Wagoner.Also I'am new to the whole Jeep thing,so all of your info will be helpful.As time goes on,I will try to send in some photo's.Here are some things I could use some help with right now, 1.Motor vacume layout 2.intake manifold + carb.4brl(edelbrock?) 3.headers with emission hook ups (360cid) thanks Joe ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 08:53:34 -0700 From: "Jim B" Subject: fsj: Four X Doctor Apparently these guys have an aluminum valve cover for 4.2L motors. http://www.fourxdoctor.com/ http://www.virtualjeep.com/ Black Jack's before pic http://www.wagoneers.com/FSJ/rigs/JimBlair/JimBlairs-J10.jpg ------------------------------ End of fsj-digest V1 #1639 **************************