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PostPosted: Fri Jun 26, 2015 3:27 pm
Dennis, coil overs front and rear. I was going to bag it but then decided hey its a driver so why bother and save some money to boot :happy: :happy:
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 08, 2015 3:04 am
Cool Im sure I would do the same Doug.

Well They hired a new guy to help and got him trained and I finally got to take a few weekends off and THEN we lost guy I started with...... It was looking Like I was gonna get some time off and I am taking this weekend off but for how long I dunno...
Im not gonna worry about it and just get some work done around this house and my shop this week.
All I can say is JOB security!
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 08, 2015 8:27 am
Dennis, hope you got allot done. Glad you have a good secure job and hopefully enjoying it. Just hope you get some consistent time off soon.

Rob are you still dry walling. Hope you are done with all that and Bach with a little time on the Stang?


I'm still fitting metal and waiting for the Fan Man to finish radiator.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 08, 2015 10:24 am
Well I'm mostly done with drywall, did the downstairs bathroon where the ceiling got mouldy from an upstairs leaky toilet and did most of the garage, need to move two big shelving units full of car parts to finish. That can wait. Painted everything too. Now I need to build a big work bench and sort out the enormous mess in the driveway from my garage and the neighbour who moved and needed help. I can't even physically get to the Stang because of all the crap now piled around it while I rebuid the garage. This garage thing has turned into a much longer nightmare than anticipated :splat:

That and we've had quite the heatwave so I'm not exactly full of energy. I have no idea how you guys can handle the heat. June is usually around 70 and fairly rainy, hasn't rained in 2 months and 85 to 90 everyday. Half the province is on fire, including several on my island. The air the last few days has been smokey with fine ash falling everywhere, pretty nasty. We have one of the world's largest water bombers sitting on a lake right beside an out of control fire but our Premier won't sign the contract with the company that owns it. She says there's cheaper ways to fight fires, instead she's asking other provinces and countrys to help out instead of using all of our own resources first, brilliant :rolleyes:
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 11, 2015 3:05 pm
Rob
Glad you made progress with sheet rock

I have a filthy mess of a shop as well, And unfortunately im back to doing 7 days a week again???????? I'm not so sure I am gonna stay with this employer I'm not getting any over time and feel I am just being abused.
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 12, 2015 10:10 am
I wouldn't be able to do 7 days a week, that's rough even if you were to get paid OT. Hopefully a more reasonable job comes your way soon. You need to free up some time to work on your stuff.

It cooled off here mercifully, back down to low 70's. Looks like we had July in June and now we're getting June weather, weird.
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 13, 2015 3:13 am
Ya working so much is getting a little old
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 15, 2015 12:27 pm
Rob, hopefully you are getting your "interference" projects done, that and hot weather don't mix. it is starting to cool a bit there so hopefully you get back to normal. I was under the car a few days when it was over 100F and its no pleasure. :realmad: :realmad:

Dennis, you are at the short end of the job again. don't they legally have to pay you OT are you on salary? I was on salary and got to work major OT with no pay other than an attaboy once and awhile. :splat: :splat:

I cleaned the underside of ½ the hood ready for primer

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Finally figured out the route to get from steering column to rack & pinion

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PostPosted: Thu Jul 16, 2015 2:42 am
Hi Doug
Great Progress :clap: :clap: :clap:

Ya I'm on Salary and no I don't like it, Im loosing a lot of money.

Those are really pretty headers. Custom headers are ungodly expensive once those rod ends are welded down good that set up should work just fine.

How did you get that metal so clean and rust pits cleaned out so good on your hood?


The Lack of Paint on every thing has brought up a question are you getting every thing to fit properly and then tearing it back down for paint? Or are you going to paint every thing at once?
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 18, 2015 9:59 am
That's looking really good Doug, and how did you get that hood to clean up so nice? Looks brand new :clap: :clap:

I'm getting closer to finishing the clean up/reno, should be back to the Stang in a week or two. It's been nice to get away from it anyway, it was getting on my nerves so a fresh start should help.

I hope you are at least getting straight time pay for the extra hours Dennis, not just a fixed amount no matter how many hours you work. Putting in an extra day or two for nothing every once in a while is somewhat tolerable, but 7 days a week non stop for nothing sure isn't. :splat:
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