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Post by unclebuck on Feb 18, 2010 15:05:22 GMT -6
I used to work for Hoerbiger Canada, with gas compressor valves, covering northeast Alberta and northern Saskatchewan, including refinery row in Ft. Sask.(just outside of Edmonton), Syncrude, Suncor, Shell, BP Canada, Devon, Husky, Sask Energy, among many. I am now in "forced retirement", because of the osteo arthritis in both ankles(cartilege in both is gone, now bone on bone). The lakes get a lickin' fishing, and the coyotes know the sound of my pickup!!!!
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Post by caretaker on Feb 18, 2010 20:57:36 GMT -6
unclebuck most of us know what early retirement is. I was forced into retirement after my 5th heart attack Glad to know your wearin the fishin holes out and the yotes tremble at the sound of your pickup.
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Post by ibugly on Feb 18, 2010 21:19:50 GMT -6
Yep I medically retired at the ripe old age of 36 in 1994.
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Post by sksfordman on Feb 19, 2010 1:19:41 GMT -6
I'm 53 and bone on bone due to factory related workers comp.injuries sustained in my work at Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co.. Extremely heavy work, and it took out my Knees, and shoulders, as well as my back, with 5 blown, herniated disc!! I've been disabled now for 3+ years now,and enjoy fishing,and hunting when the pain allows. Randy
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Post by fyimo on Mar 24, 2010 19:00:00 GMT -6
I started my career as an assembly line worker at the Ford Transmission plant in Michiganin 1964. Then after two years I became a Facility Design Engineer at The Ford Wayne Plant. I got drafted in 1968 and two years later returned and I became an Industrial Engineer for the Ford Wayne Plant.
I left there and Joined University Microfilms as the Manger Of Industrial Engineering and got my Masters Of Science degree while there. In 1981 I left University microfilms to become the Vice President of Manufacturing for Information Handling Services in Denver where I stayed until I retired 22 years later.
I now live in Arkansas and I'm retired.
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Post by ibugly on Mar 24, 2010 21:37:27 GMT -6
I used to keep Ford Transmission plant in business My old Gremlin ate several between trips from Norfolk to Knoxville and back.
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Post by sksfordman on Mar 25, 2010 7:54:48 GMT -6
You put Ford trannys in a American motors product? Not a bad idea, did you put in a Ford motor as well? That would have been a great sleeper at the 1/4mile drag strip!!
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Post by fritoman on Mar 25, 2010 15:31:00 GMT -6
I run a frito lay route in fulton and clinton ky Im involved in church and enjoy hunting every chance i get
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Post by ibugly on Mar 25, 2010 19:31:26 GMT -6
You put Ford trannys in a American motors product? Not a bad idea, did you put in a Ford motor as well? That would have been a great sleeper at the 1/4mile drag strip!! It was about a 71 or 73 yellow Gremlin with a straight six and three speed on the floor. It was yellow and pin striped to look like a Bumble Bee. I got it in a trade with Caretaker. It had a Ford tranny. Before the buy out by Chrysler AMC didn't build engines as such they used other drive trains. My 78 CJ-5 for example had an International drive train. The Gremlin was theft proof to those who didn't know them real well. The shifter was on the floor but the column sleeve would also move when you shifted. So if you understood that part you could pull in into a parking place like in front of a building and hold the floor shifter in neutral and turn the sleeve and either put it in reverse of first. That would lock it in gear and the floor shifter was disabled till you turned the column sleeve to neutral again. Not an intended feature but one I figured out. I also had a kill switch wired to the coil secondary to ground. Drove thieves nuts on ones we did it too. Saved my dad a pick up. I used to park it outside the shipyard in Portsmouth, Virginia and would back the Gremlin against a wall. Cars got stolen there but mine didn't.
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Post by ibugly on Mar 25, 2010 19:33:46 GMT -6
I run a frito lay route in fulton and clinton ky Im involved in church and enjoy hunting every chance i get I'd eat up my wages if I had that job.
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Post by caretaker on Mar 25, 2010 19:43:22 GMT -6
The Gremlins during that time frame had either a 232 ci 6 cyl or a 258 ci 6 cyl. parts were a combination of ford and chevy. Some gremlins were equiped with a 304 v 8 chrysler but I never owned one. Wife had a 74 GremlinX Levi series thatshe lost control of and slammed a retaining wall on I40 after putting it up on two wheels. Hit so hard it knocked the water pump shaft through the front cylinder.
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Post by ibugly on Mar 25, 2010 20:12:55 GMT -6
Parts in the 70's cross matched to other manufactures in a few cases. Pappy and me had a 78 Ford van with a 300 straight line 6 straight shift. Buying a clutch and pressure plate for it was a royal pill. At least 6 Ford and Chevy flywheels were used on that one engine.
The forerunner to Gremlins, Eagle, and Pacers was Ramblers and Nash. We had a 59 Rambler wagon that ate rear wheel bearings and solenoids as fast as you could put them in. Gremlins for their design were actually pretty solid cars. The worse thing body wise was the front door hinges wore out fast. The engines were dependable though.
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Post by sksfordman on Mar 25, 2010 20:50:12 GMT -6
Those Gremlins had some long front doors on them anyhow, making it hard on hinges!!
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Post by ibugly on Mar 25, 2010 21:23:10 GMT -6
Yea and the cars ran till they ran no more and hinges were not easy to come by. Dealer parts cost too much and junk yard hinges were wore out also. I had three counting my wife's.
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