Project Rescue

[immortality]

So it's been an interesting few days. Last week I was looking forward to Easter Weekend, it was my next 8 day break at work and I was going to visit my old man for his 70th birthday and also spend a little bit of time touring around the lower end of the North island, all up about 2000km round trip.

Than life changed on Monday afternoon when the site production manager handed me a stack of letters ,asked me to hand them out not long before he left for the day. Letter was inviting all staff to attend a meeting the following day at 2pm regarding the future of the business.

Last night I cleaned out my lockers at work and clocked out for the last time as will approx 150 people I used to work with over the next few days. The business is closing the heat set printing division and all the associated departments. I have worked at that company since I was still at school, doing holidays and weekends, I have come and gone a few times but between my father and I we have over 40 years at the company.

Sometimes life sucks.

[Holden202T]

man thats fucked! hopefully you can find something soon!

[immortality]

Yeah mate, it is fucked big time.

The union has arranged a mini job expo on site next Tuesday as a lot of local employers are looking for staff in all sorts of area's ( fork hoist drivers, machine operators, printers for packaging manufacturers etc) and have been contacting the union and my former employer since the news broke on Tuesday this week.

I'm not sure if I want to step straight into something else, I think a short time off to decompress and gather my thoughts before I step into something else is required. Also not sure I want to do shift work anymore or work in a factory. I need something that is more conducive to a healthy life style and work/life balance.

I'm actually considering going truck driving for a bit, preferably long haul. Get out on the road, out of the city and eat up the miles.

[vlad01]

As long as you are healthy and willing/can work, work will come your way.

I have the opposite problem, heaps of work available and my employer is keen as to get me working more but my health is still limiting me to 1 day a week atm and I didn't work for 3 months from November and had no income support at all. Hopefully by the end of the month I can step up to 2 days with rest days in between.

[Gampy]

Sorry to hear that, it's an unfortunate situation, I have been on both sides, it's painful!

However, I do 100% fully agree with,

As long as you are healthy and willing/can work, work will come your way.

Owned some trucks at one point in time, at first we hauled explosives for the USGov't all over the country, got tired of the BS and started running steel between the San Fransisco Bay area and the Los Angels basin ...

[immortality]

Figured I'd better reference this back to the main thread for this project.

Oil temp sensor location? Stock ecotec oil temps?

[immortality]

So I guess this needs a bit of an update.

Recently the LPG system got torn out. Spent a bit of time cleaning up and removing the LPG wiring from the PCM loom, soldering and heat shrinking it all etc.

The indicator stalk is dodgy and only works if held at the correct angle, the tail lens is cracked and has water in it and I pinched the brake light switch to fix another car. All of these items will need fixing to get a WOF/rego.

The trans got a flush using "clean but used" fluid. I'll run this for a short time and then do another flush with new Penrite DXIII. The fluid that came out didn't much look like trans fluid but although there was a bit of shit in the bottom of the pan, no chunky bits so for 340,000km it might live a bit longer yet.

Fitted some new radiator and heater hoses + TEBFA filter and added some CRC radiator flush to the system and have run a few heat cycles so that will need to be dumped and flushed with water before I top it off with Penrite 10 Tenths racing coolant (non glycol coolant). It doesn't freeze here so there is no need to run a glycol based coolant, just something with anti-corrosive properties in it.

The lower radiator support panel has surface rust, I'll need to lean, treat and paint that before going for a WOF.

Cleaned and polished the headlights.

Also fitted a little siggy lighter/volt gauge where the old LPG controller was fitted in the dash as there was a hole left over that looked ugly!