From owner-fsj-digest-at-digest.net Sat Feb 14 22:15:12 2004 From: fsj-digest fsj-digest Sunday, February 15 2004 Volume 01 : Number 2102 Forum for Discussion of Full Sized SJ Series Jeeps Brian Colucci Digest Coordinator Contents: Re: fsj: Opening Engine fsj: Top Truck Challenge 2004 (fwd) fsj: MB Diesel XJ project cancelled... fsj: administrivia: notes on using this list 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: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 09:18:11 -0800 From: "Jim Blair" Subject: Re: fsj: Opening Engine A: You may be surprised by how little wear is on the timing chain if it's had decent oil changes. As for the oil pump, I would plastigage it with either the cover still on (if you aren't needing to change timing gears and chain then you don't need to take the cover off. Just flip the motor upside down on a engine stand to work on the bottom) The reason for putting it upside down is so you won't have the weight of the oilpump gears pushing on the plastigage and giving you a false result (it will show it's tighter than it really is otherwise) From: Tesar Landon-r16884 Subject: fsj: Opening Engine Hi Dalan, this is by no means comprehensive, but the access gives opportunity.... Valve cover gaskets Timing chain would be great (snip) I wouldn't worry too much about the oil pump gears. This can be done with a little more trouble with the engine in place. If you do work on the front cover, this is the key, to look at the wear in the front cover where the oil pump gears work. Also, don't use a thick gasket on the oil pump end plate cover. This will make the pump inefficient, as oil pools there. A few thousandths thickness in gasket thickness makes a difference. I think I used a .005" thick gasket, made from plastic sheet. Ooh! front timing chain seal, and rear main seal. Yes, that would be good. And I would say a transmission front seal, and shifter shaft seal, and dipstick seal.(not sure how realistic these are as a result of the engine removal...) - - - Landon '89 GW ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 19:29:53 +0000 From: wagoneers.com-at-comcast.net Subject: fsj: Top Truck Challenge 2004 (fwd) - --- Subject: Top Truck Challenge 2004 (fwd) Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 08:30:57 -0800 (PST) here it is, the official entry announcement... :) This Jeep rocks. Well engineered. Well built. I've watched it's development for years... Dan is passionate about these things, he's a good friend and an incredible Jeeper. :) john ---- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ** http://wagoneers.com ** ** http://freegift.net ** Snohomish, Washington USA - where Jeeps don't rust, they mold. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Starc, Dan" Hi Folks Some of you may already know, but after years of avoiding this, I was finally convinced to enter my Cherokee in Four Wheeler Magazine's Top Truck Challenge 2004. I know, no 44-inch tires, no chrome, no 24-inch lift, no shiny paintjob, no fancy 60K rig...still, it may have what it takes to compete. I also happen to believe that the driver & crew may be a factor in the competition as well. Sure enough, as soon as we entered Top Truck Challenge, the folks from Four Wheeler came up with a new competition better suited for us, called Real Truck Challenge...too late, we had already entered Top Truck. We don't care, we just want to compete. And compete we will. I am determined to do very well or break a lot of parts trying. Either way, we will put on a decent show, I guarantee it. My rig has been around for a while, I have competed in national rockcrawling events over the years (yes, in a Cherokee) and I have loaded it with a lot of the right stuff. A stroker-6, coolers for everyhting, 35-splines inner & outers, high pinion Dana 60s, beadlocks, skidplates, gears, etc, etc, I won't bore you with details, just know it works. Some of you have 'wheeled with me d know the rig's capabilities well. I am just asking you to vote for us when you get your next copy of Four Wheeler Magazine, due out in a week or so. You have to cut out the page, fill it out with ten entrants of your choice, including us. Tell your friends. Buy extra nagazines. Call me or email me and ask me to send you a copy! I was told we may be the only Cherokee in the competition this year, so this is a bigger incentive to get voted in and represent Cherokees everywhere! You can see some pictures of my rig here: http://www.wagoneers.com/XJ/rigs/DanStarc-89XJ/ALL2-pix.html http://www.wagoneers.com/XJ/rigs/DanStarc-89XJ/ALL-pix.html http://www.wagoneers.com/XJ/rigs/DanStarc-89XJ/DansXJ-Feb3-2004/ALLpix.h tml This is a friend's website and he was nice enough to post them for me. Please forward this email along to all your friends! Don't be shy. Thanks for reading this, and if you also vote us in, double thanks! Take care and hopefully you'll see us competing this year. Sincerely, Dan Starc (206) 713-2222 danstarc1-at-comcast.net ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 01:04:34 -0800 From: john meister Subject: fsj: MB Diesel XJ project cancelled... looks like my parts source dried up... :) not that it was going to happen any time real soon, after all this 4.0L keeps on going, and going, and going... :) Actually I'm happy it didn't work out. :) I was wondering when I was going to have time to pull the 3.0L engine out of the old benz, where I was going to put it... needed to buy another shop crane... then what to do with the body... maybe I could have buried it in the back yard like the others... oh wait... that would require a bigger hole wouldn't it? ;) so, when the '87 xj finally dies... I'll probably rebuild the 4.0L or scrap the entire rig... when my '80 olds Diesel cutlass finally died it "only" had 235,000 miles on it... of course it died a bit early... I "fixed" the transmission lock up TC feature and sort of kind of put some internal stuff together wrong... and it sorta kind of downshifted to first at about 65 mph instead of second... snapped the camshaft... :( but I digress... so, unless I can find another good 3.0L TD MB engine my Diesel Cherokee conversion ain't gonna happen... later, john - -- ---- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- * john-at-wagoneers.com * Snohomish, WA USA - http://wagoneers.com where Jeeps don't rust, they mold. ** trust Jesus ** - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- win, mac & linux: http://www.mozilla.org/ the new alternatives - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 07:15:00 +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. 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