DwayneGorniak

We can get that tool for ya. Looks allot like the R134a/R12 tool but more money and I know the tool I listed works. Anyways, take care, have fun, keep your stick on the ice and never forget where the warm wet hole of youth and happiness lies and always keep it happy.

I take it, it's a different tool? The next time Ken is around, ask him if you can try one on an evap valve.

I hope you're not screwin around with me. If you're not, not only does the one I listed do the R134a but the R12 end will do the evap schrader valves. Works on my wife's 04' F-150 and my buddy's 03' excursion. I actually just had to use it for that. Imagine that, I'm still doing work like this on the side for my pals. Not that I want to. It's just one of those situations where you sometimes gotta help your friends out. I'm just trying to remember if the newest schrader valves have become fatter or wider.

Mac Tool number AC81290: http://www.mactools.com/SearchResults/tabid/79/Default.aspx?Search=AC81290 Does both the R12 and R134A fittings. Can't be that hard to find.

A bit more than a few years ago, I had a Service Manager that did the exact same thing on a regular basis. He was paid a bonus based on Gross Profit of the Service department. I had just come out of my Shop Foreman/Assistant Service Manager position at a another dealership and had started working there flat rate. I lasted only six months at that dealership. Once I had all my evidence organized and my ducks in a row, I went to the Owner with the issue. He knew about the issue and wasn't going to do anything about it. Actually, he was rather offended that I found about it. None of the other techs there looked up their own times and didn't have a clue as to what was going on. But because I knew the warranty system, I caught on real quick as to what was going on. I was looking up my own times and documenting them. Then I was able to get a look at the closed out work orders and found that he was charging Ford warranty more time than he paying us techs. To this day he is still the Service Manager at that dealership and techs are still none the wiser and still struggling. Some techs at other dealerships could fathom the reason I looked up my own times and thought I was crazy to do so. But after that ass raping, there was no way in hell I was going to do otherwise. This particular dealership has a new owner now and from what I've heard, the new owner his sights on the this Service Manager and his days are numbered. I still talk to some of the guys there on a regular basis. I still don't say anything to them about why I left back then. They are just those type of techs that won't take the initiative to learn how to look up their own times and see what is going on. The amount of money they have lost over the years would be unbelievable. This is one of the huge problems with bonus paid service/sales personal. It can become all about money and never the right thing.

I've dealt with worse way back in the past. You are a machine that is no longer performing to their expectations. When their machines start breaking down and costing them money by not being able to complete the work.......well you get the picture. It is always about the money! And they always figure you're out to screw them. They could care less about your health and well being or even you family family life. To them, you are a Machine! What happens to rusty old machines in the end? I see it at all the shops I walk into these days. Now they look for machines that cost less to operate (foreign workers who cost less). Man I see lots of cheep machines out there these days. It's too bad they don't perform as well as good machines, but that is the trend I see all to much now.

You should be investing in Fire retardant clothing and water wings there Jim. I'm coming up there tomorrow. Do you need any dinghy's and paddles? I could pick some up on the way. Just Kidding. Hope all is as well as it can be. What a shit show you guys are going through.

It was a refrigerator convoy all the way from Edmonton to Slave Lake!

Damn, Then I didn't see you on the way back. I'll be up again to get my Quad trailer and one last dirt bike. I also forgot my 20 litre pail bucket pump. I don't suppose you could set that over by your bay untill I get back up there to get it, could ya? And thanks Keith. I bought that truck in September of 97' on the way home from my cousin Dawn's funeral. Her and I were born the same year. I found it at a small private sales business and it's been a project that I've allways been working on and have never finished. It is factory equipped with the 5.8L H.O. (351 Windsor with Holley Four Barrell), C6 tranny and a 9 inch diff. I love that truck! Being that I bought it on the day of my cousin's funereral ther is also sentimental value. There isn't a day that whenever I look at it I don't think of her.

You had waaaayyyy to much ice on your mind today. you didn't even wave passin me this morning. Went and picked up my truck. Paint was untouched and it didn't even smell like smoke inside. Had a few ashes get in under the wiper cowl and landed on the dash when I fired him up though. It was great to get Ole' Blue back home with me.

That's darned good news. Not about his rental property, but his home. I'll try callin him again. Haven't been able get in touch with him. According to the damge maps, Remona and Augey lost their home. For the rest of you who don't know, Remona is the parts gal at S.L. Ford.

Here is a link that shows the Chaos and and devastation that everyone went through: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rK7_yb938AQ&feature=player_embedded . It chokes me up when I watch it. This video would probably be a little much for some of those who lost everything to take.

I feel for all of those people as well Jim. I feel like one lucky S.O.B. to have moved out of Slave. But I feel guilty as well. It's weird!

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/photos/wildfire-engulfs-slave-lake-alberta-1305547879-slideshow/

Not sure if you want to move this post into the other one possibly Keith.

I haven't heard from anyone. I tried calling a few of them. I imagine they have allot more things to worry about than talking to me right now. When I first heard about it, I thought it was a joke until I turned on the news. Sounds like half the town is gone and the rest is still burning.

I just got the call that Slave Lake is on Fire and it's a bad one. I really hope everyone is O.k. I just saw that S.l Ford is on Fire. I'm just startin to follow the news on it. Don't know what else to say.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/video/odd-22186925/most-ridiculous-truck-on-the-road-25222321.html

The tough on crime legislation will a breath of fresh air as well. And Ignatief can go back to his damned mansion in Florida ( I think it is)and suck on Flamingo crap. It would be nice if he took that separtist bastard on a holliday to Texas and tried preaching that shit to some Texans.

Wellll.......look at the results now. By voting, we tossed out a separatist bastard, reducing his party (which is no longer even a national party) to rubble and an immigrant fighting to be Pri-minister who only showed up to parliament 30% of the time for work. And if that isn't making a damned difference, I don't know what the hell is!

I feel that it should be the law that you have to vote or you go to jail if you don't. Speaking of that: Fuckers in jail shouldn't be allowed to vote either. They will only vote for fucker politicians that will reduce penalties for breaking laws. I feel the same way as you do Jim. These young punks are fucking our country by allowing the separatist bastards to have the majority of the vote. Even if these young fuckers don't know which way to vote, they should at least vote for the party that they feel will stop the separatist movement. I hear them all bitch and whine and cry about the French separatist treasonous bastards, but they aren't willing to vote against something that pisses them off. Lazy self centered selfish fuckers is all they are. Fuck! Now I need another drink. But you can bet your ass that I will be voting tomorrow night.

Here's another one Jim used to listen to at work: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxNU5bFeENE

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Wasn't one of the Pinion bearings changed up and different as well? I ran into that twice if I remember correctly.

Check this out: http://ca.autos.yahoo.com/p/2074/795000-canadian-supercar-looks-for-share-of-high-end-market