From owner-fsj-digest@digest.net Wed Jan 2 16:34:26 2013 From: fsj-digest To: fsj-digest@digest.net Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2013 00:33:48 +0000 Subject: fsj-digest V1 #4004 fsj-digest Thursday, January 3 2013 Volume 01 : Number 4004 Forum for Discussion of Full Sized SJ Series Jeeps Brian Colucci Digest Coordinator Contents: fsj: administrivia: notes on using this list fsj: j10 axle swap complete fsj: brake boosters - engine/axle swaps/wiring/water pumps... FSJ Digest Home Page: http://www.digest.net/jeeps/fsj/ Send submissions to fsj-digest@digest.net Send administrative requests to fsj-digest-request@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, 01 Jan 2013 07:15:02 +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. Persons who read the list via email are automatically members, but readers of the FTP archive are not, and need to contact me (rwelty@krusty-motorsports.com) and get your name added to the list of "permitted senders". b) has your email address changed? some of you have had changes in your email address. your old address still works, and is still on the list, but your From: line shows a new address. this can happen for various reasons; you may have changed jobs or ISPs, and left a forward in place, or your IT staff may have fiddled with the email system. you will need to unsubscribe your old email address and subscribe the new one. this may require my involvement, if you can't figure out a way to get your old address off the list using the conventional majordomo commands. you can use the majordomo "which" command to probe for old addresses. send a message to majordomo@digest.net with one or more which commands in the body, one per line. to check for potential addresses for Fred Flinstone, formerly of bedrock.org, the following commands can be sent: which flintstone which bedrock note that the matches above might return any of the following addresses, if they appear in the list (in other words, you can use vagueness and incompleteness in your recollection as a tool): Fred.Flinstone@bedrock.org fflinstone@wilma.bedrock.org flintstonef@bedrock.com c) do you have more than one email address? if so, only the subscribed addresses can post, unless you contact me (see 1.a) above for relevant information) d) are you using (intentionally or accidentially) special "features" of your mail client? [this section is no longer operative, as the demime software now strips html, attachments, rich text format, etc. from postings automatically.] e) are your posts too large? there is a 10,000 character limit on posting sizes; this is done for various reasons. you can always split up large postings to get mail through. f) are you including majordomo commands at the start of your message? administrivia control is turned on; this is a trap for things like "unsubscribe" at the start of a message. try to avoid obvious majordomo commands in the subject and the first 10 lines, or misspell them in obvious ways (e.g. unzubscribe, 1ndex, h3lp, g3t, etc.) g) are you triggering spam traps? some things are red flags; for example, many phrases found commonly in spam are automatically blocked. h) are you using "funky" character sets? [7 bit restriction lifted experimentally on 8/2/00 -- film at 11] unfortunately, there are "issues" if i permit any character set other than old fashioned 7 level ASCII; therefore, you need to avoid national character sets that include various accents, umlauts, national currency characters such as the British pound symbol, etc. i) are you unintentionally including complete digests in your reply? You need to check and make sure you cut down replys to the minimal size; digests are between 20,000 and 25,000 characters in length, and if you include a complete digest in your reply, it clearly won't make the 10,000 character limit. By the way, this feature is intentional. j) Are you using a "bad" ISP or mail relay? See http://www.digest.net/email-policy.html for more information about Digest.Net policies about email. k) Is the error message you get back "User Unknown"? If so, you may be running afoul of spam control severices (again, see http://www.digest.net/email-policy.html) When these services register a hit, the error code 550 is returned. 550 is a generic code that many broken mail systems report as "user unknown". The "rejectlog" entries for the previous day's mail traffic on digest.net may be viewed at http://www.digest.net/rejectlog.01 Some of you may find it useful or instructive to use the telnet program to connect directly to port 25 on krusty-motorsports.com and see what kind of reply you get; this requires some technical knowledge and is not for everyone (you can get out of this at anytime after the initial banner simply by typing quit and hitting enter.) l) Is SMTP over TLS involved? This is a bit esoteric, but as of 8/8/01 the digest.net mail server will attempt to use "TLS" (Transport Layer Security) for outbound mail if the destination mail server offers it. SMTP over TLS is fairly new technology, and a bit buggy. I am monitoring the logs on the server, and when I see TLS related problems, I manually place the problem destinations on a special exception list; however, this may delay email to the destination host until I make the exception. 2. Why can't I unsubscribe? a) are you using the right address? send to majordomo@digest.net, and the command format is unsubscribe list-name my-email-address b) has your email address changed? majordomo has no way of knowing that Fred.Flinstone@BarneyCo.com was once fflintstone@bedrock.org. you can check this with the which command (see 1.b) above for details) 3. How do I post to the list? You may use either one of two addresses: for example, the bmw-digest may be reached using either bmw@digest.net or bmw-digest@digest.net If you are using the correct addresses and your posts don't show up, check out the stuff in 1. above. 4. Where are the archives? see ftp://ftp.digest.net/ for digest archives. the web archives have proven problematic, and are awaiting time for a systematic attack on the problems they've been having. 5. What other lists are on digest.net? see http://www.digest.net/ for more information. 6. Is there a web subscription form? Yes, recently added. go to http://www.digest.net/bin/digest-subs.cgi 7. Why not move the lists to someplace like (egroups, topica,...)? The Krusty Motorsports server (aka, digest.net) was explicitly to provide for efficient management of the various automotive mailing lists, done the way that the owner of the server wanted it done. Any migration off of the server (which is already bought, paid for, and configured) would create any number of issues. 8. How do i contact the Server Administrator in an emergency? If my regular email address (rwelty@krusty-motorsports.com) isn't working for you, you can fall back on rwelty@suespammers.org 9. What is Krusty Motorsports, anyway? Krusty Motorsports (http:/www.krusty-motorsports.com/) is a business which is owned and operated by Richard Welty (rwelty@krusty-motorsports.com). Krusty is an S-Corporation in the State of New York. Krusty provides a number of Internet related services, such as mailing list, web sites, pop3/telnet accounts, and consulting on internet related issues. For more information, see the web site. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2013 01:17:13 -0800 (PST) From: john Subject: fsj: j10 axle swap complete http://wagoneers.com/FSJ/tech/J10-axle-swap-Dec-2012/ALL.html still need to fix the rear brakes... someone installed them wrong... ----- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -o|||||o- Linux: the choice of a GNU generation http://WAGONEERS.COM Snohomish, WA- where Jeeps don't rust, they mold ...shop AMSOIL directly at: http://AMSOIL.com/redirect.cgi?zo=283461 - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education" Theodore Roosevelt (26th President (1901-09), 1858-1919) - Trust Jesus - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2013 16:33:13 -0800 (PST) From: john Subject: fsj: brake boosters - engine/axle swaps/wiring/water pumps... 1) my son's '85 GW choked on a lifter in hole #5, camshaft snapped at #2. No worries, he's building a 4 bolt 350 (in his apartment!) for about 500hp to install... he wants to clean the engine compartment out... saw the big brake booster and master cylinder... made some comment about manual brakes which I highly discouraged... and suggested a hydroboost setup... Pictures to follow... (I'm not active on the list of yahoos... in digest mode there... will share with the fsj list on digest.net later, I'll let a yahoo post it... :) kind of cool shots of the broken lifter and flat cam lobes... engine had just under 200k... WHICH LEADS to TWO things: 1) where can we get a complete hydraboost setup? 2) does anyone want to buy the stock setup out of his '85 GW - or any other engine type stuff (I've got the a/c setup for my '83 J10). 2) my axle swap is complete on my '83 J10 long bed... swapped out the 2.72 gears for 3.31's... got the axles from Jim Blair... turned out the original owner installed the rear brakes wrong... long shoe in the front... short in back... brakes did not work properly on my test... noticed a leaking wheel cylinder when I went to flip the shoes around... so, taking it into les schwab tomorrow... all new shoes, cylinders and have the front end aligned... http://wagoneers.com/FSJ/tech/J10-axle-swap-Dec-2012/ALL.html (can't find the pictures of the rear axle now...) THIS ACTION SHOULD ALSO PREVENT SNOW IN THE SEATTLE AREA... you can thank me later... 3) rewired under the hood of my '83 J10 this summer... I used most of the new harness from zach, but the new harness from zm jeeps had two complications, one it was for a '79 and two it required changing connectors on accessories like wiper motors, ignition modules and such - which means that if I ever replaced that stuff I'd have to mess around changing connectors... while the new connectors were superb, I opted NOT to do that change... And because the '79 and '83 are different on TWO OR THREE pins, and those pins happen to be high current pins... I ended up creating a hybrid harness using bits and pieces of both... I spent 8 hours going through schematics, pin by freaking pin... not fun... of course factory manuals don't go into a great deal of detail on things like ballast resistors and resistive wire for the alternator... bottom line, if you have a '79 or comparable that harness would be great, except for the new style connectors for the wiper/ignition/etc. The wire is of excellent quality and it's assembled nicely. Accurate lengths. - - if you have a different year like I did, then I'd suggest a different strategy... I spent WAY TOO MUCH TIME WITH WIRING DIAGRAMS sorting things out... I can't find my pictures, still need to do the write up... I would NOT have been able to fix my truck without that wiring harness though... but my truck had been messed up bad by a PO who thought it was a Ford... IF YOU ARE FACED with just bad wires in a "good" wiring harness - replace each wire ONE at a time... my problem was the PO really loused up the wiring harness... snip-snip... I'm pretty sure who ever owned it before drove a FORD because the logic that went into some of this stuff reminds me of my Ford vehicles... not saying the truck was abused, just confused. :) While I had to spend a lot of time hacking up an expensive harness from a '79, it worked out ok... But, if you have a functional harness, replace ONE wire at a time... if it's confused... get a shop manual/wiring diagram and either figure out the current wiring diagram or depending on the year buy a new harness... you have two options... the high quality harness from zmjeeps or the painless wiring... both are expensive... the painless wiring is kind of an open ended thing... you have to make your own connectors, cut to length, etc.... when I was rewiring one Jeep that came with a painless kit... I looked at it, looked at the jeep... sold the kit and did my own wiring, and saved myself a lot of time and money... UNLESS THE KIT IS FOR THE SPECIFIC YEAR, MODEL and options AND you have an accurate wiring diagram I'd avoid any of the kits... you'd be better off getting a harness out of a wrecking yard and splitting it open and repairing it and using it... I still have to rewire under the dash/cab... it's a real mess... no kits... I'm on my own... been there done that... 4) http://fotomeister.us/2012/09-Sep-29-J10-waterPump/ALL.html - you should be able to see the wiring updates... ;) I thought my new water pump was leaking... turned out that the hose clamps needed to be retightened!!! I've been wrenching for 40 years... have never had a problem with clamps not being tight enough or having to retighten... talked to another mechanic this morning and he said he's found the same thing to be true, had to retighten hose clamps again... we're guessing it's the hoses themselves... different material... perhaps better? 5) still trying to have curtis call or answer his phone so I can gather up all the bits and pieces of my '83 J10 stepside out Centralia... been apart since 2001... :( the sd33T is in the frame, bits and pieces painted but not reassembled... if anyone is near Centralia, WA let me know, maybe you could stop by and say howdy for me and let Curtis know I want to pick up all my spare parts and pieces of the J10... it but I figure 12 years is long enough to wait... Not looking forward to reassembling something I didn't take apart... hoping he'll at least put the glass back in the cab so I can leave it in the driveway to work on it... Either way, I just reinstalled the hitch on my J10, getting the brakes fixed tomorrow... will wire up the trailer lights and fix the cab wiring so I can drive it down to retrieve superdawg... or just get help from a few friends with big Diesel trucks... might have to do a convoy... depending on how many pieces superdawg is still in... :( This is the last set of pictures: http://wagoneers.com/FSJ/SuperDawg/2011_August_7-frame-done-engine-in-bodypainting/ALL.html happy new year... john ----- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -o|||||o- Linux: the choice of a GNU generation http://WAGONEERS.COM Snohomish, WA- where Jeeps don't rust, they mold ...shop AMSOIL directly at: http://AMSOIL.com/redirect.cgi?zo=283461 - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education" Theodore Roosevelt (26th President (1901-09), 1858-1919) - Trust Jesus - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ End of fsj-digest V1 #4004 **************************