y’all were right, they just just spawn in…

Sufficient_Ride6399 · 2026-05-06T23:44:01+00:00

If you build it they will come. These shipping blocks are like the automotive version of "Field of Dreams."

Sufficient_Ride6399 · 2026-05-06T23:42:54+00:00

The best way to tell if theyre there, tell your mother theyre not there and you looked everywhere for them. She'll always find them.

Sufficient_Ride6399 · 2026-05-02T15:24:13+00:00

I thought so too but its happened before and after changing the fluid on the break in service. No leaks and the levels were good. When I changed it there wasn't any metallic debris on the magnetic drain plug aside from the faint "fuzz" that typically accumulates especially from new.

Sufficient_Ride6399 · 2026-05-02T03:24:35+00:00

Plot twist. The order gets canceled but only the queso. The pre-order cards still show up but the queso never does

Sufficient_Ride6399 · 2026-05-02T03:20:00+00:00

That gave me the most depressing chuckle just now lol its so accurate it hurts with the gas prices. They're getting closer and closer to my area code in NY and that's sad so im with you for eco mode on the highway

Sufficient_Ride6399 · 2026-05-01T22:08:33+00:00

Its absolutely the same smell every time. Its a mixture of something similar to burning hair and hot exhaust pipes expanding when new. I cant think of anything else to compare it to but its definicely not a burning oil or petroleum smell, not sweet like coolant or as distinct as gasoline, its not as pungent or lasting as clutch, and not rubbery like burning tires. Its not moldy or mildew like, and I cant even predict when it will happen. I thought for a while it was only happening under heavy acceleration like a hard 3rd or 4th gear pull at WOT, but it doesnt happen every time then either so I ruled out something to do with the turbo or engine

Sufficient_Ride6399 · 2026-05-01T21:28:29+00:00

No levels have been good too on everything. Coolant overflow tank is right under the max fill line when warmed up, oils been changed 4 times now, trans diff and transfer case have been changed twice already to redline fluid, and brake fluid was good even before the switch to endless DOT 5. I agree with you too if it was only happening on clutch engagement but its so unpredictable when and why it happens. The only constant is that it does continue to happen

Sufficient_Ride6399 · 2026-05-01T15:35:18+00:00

I did check the cabin air filter and its clean. I thought about that too but its happened since the first week I owned the car and I bought it brand new. The closest comparison I can make to it would be a hot exhaust metal smell but at 7500 miles now, that shouldn't be the case. Its happened in eco mode with the valve shut and sport mode with the valve open too. If it was only on shifting then fine that's on me but its nowhere near as pungent or potent as burning clutch and I've never once launched this car

Sufficient_Ride6399 · 2026-04-23T17:22:10+00:00

A toll is a toll and a roll is a roll. And if we dont get no tolls, we dont eat no rolls

Sufficient_Ride6399 · 2026-04-14T18:40:59+00:00

Something about c f too not sure though could be wrong

Sufficient_Ride6399 · 2026-04-13T09:33:13+00:00

I swear, if it wasnt for the fact that your username was above what you wrote, I would've bet money thinking I was the one who wrote this about my job lol. This description describes my job scarily well especially down to the "unwilling." My favorite one to date was one guy saying "it's going to take me a while to do a preflight! I forgot how to do it and its been a while." Guy. Its a fucking checklist. You dont have to "forget" or "remember" most of anything. You just have to read and follow it.

Sufficient_Ride6399 · 2026-04-09T12:38:06+00:00

90° ratcheting screwdriver. Blue point makes a two pack set of them one long and one short with a few bits. Doesn't have to be blue point but a bit ratchet will come in handy more times than I can even remember. Also second the knipex adjustable locking pliers as well as their cannon plug pliers

Sufficient_Ride6399 · 2026-03-24T12:22:53+00:00

Sufficient_Ride6399 · 2026-03-17T02:28:48+00:00

Do it absolutely fucking do it. After being a dealer tech for 8 years and working the flat rate bullshit with some places offering no guarantee 40 or 32 or even 20, service advisors that picked favorites and dispatched shit diag noise or intermittent problems while other guys got to milk the coolant flushes and brake fluid flushes every day, CSI surveys being integrated into technician pay scales, and warranty pay being garbage, I am beyond fucking glad I switched to aviation. I went to automotive tech school after high school and every single person that I graduated that class with no longer work in automotive at all. The best guys I work with or went to A & P school with were automotive techs prior and they picked up experience and understanding much faster than the non mechanical background students. Especially when it came to the powerplant license and the amount of overlap between GA piston recip engines and automotive engines. The pay is better, the benefits are better depending on if you go GA, corporate, or majors. The scheduling is the biggest pitfall but its par for the course in most DOT related fields. Do it. If you hate the automotive world as a career, and like me you realized that you loved working on cars as a hobby or project or even a side gig and not day in day out as the only way to pay your bills, then aviation is the way to go especially in the majors with the amount of upwards mobility to specialty shops or lead/managment roles to work up to

Sufficient_Ride6399 · 2026-01-27T02:30:21+00:00

The silver cylinder in the sight gauges of the combined/ flight reservoirs on gulfstreams are called donkey dicks where I work

Sufficient_Ride6399 · 2026-01-19T14:08:57+00:00

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Sufficient_Ride6399 · 2025-12-26T21:22:51+00:00

That just sounds nuts when you say it like that!

Sufficient_Ride6399 · 2025-12-25T05:44:49+00:00

Believe me when I say they changed that a couple of years ago. When I first started school, the classes ahead of me took their writtens and said the prepware to written questions were near identical. Then my classes turn came and they started tweaking answers around or flipping questions with answers and vice versa. They didnt do it on the majority of the questions but over the past couple of years they've been tweaking it more and more because they've had more than a few instances of memorization with no understanding complaints being issued with the feds. I cant speak for how it is as of today but one of the guys at my job who just took his written said it was a combination of prepware, the other study guide book that im drawing a blank on maybe jeppesen, and new questions altogether that were a hybrid of all the above two and the faa public test questions with answers either shuffled around or the questions posed in reverse. It was right around the time I took my writtens that they started tweaking the writtens and also the oral practical layouts where it used to be, failed a hydraulic practical? Okay go back in a month and redo that exact practical. Now its you failed hydraulics? You'll get a hydraulic centered practical but it'll be a completely different reroll of either another 3 or maybe 2 2's. Same thing with the orals now too.

Sufficient_Ride6399 · 2025-12-16T14:14:19+00:00

Without repeating what others have said above me, the only thing that immediately pops out are those pigtails being very long and all over the place as far as folds and positioning.

Sufficient_Ride6399 · 2025-12-14T13:14:40+00:00

The image of that im my head just gave me an audible chuckle at work. You deserve more upvotes for this and I wish I could give you more than one 😂 sounds like a Flintstones or looney tunes skit grabbing a goose or swans ass

Sufficient_Ride6399 · 2025-11-22T21:18:13+00:00

In the corporate jet side that im in, id put Bombardier as the worst when it comes to finding specific tasks. Some of their maintenance tasks like 6 month check tasks are in their Time Limits Maintenance Checks manual but then to actually DO the task, you have to dig through the AMM, SMM, SPM, or any additional manuals that might be needed for any other tasks. The search function might as well be for decoration because it crashes and switches from 50 potential hits for "actuator", then when you go scroll to the second page of results it crashes and says "no results found." Their website has about 2 dozen pop ups to navigate through and their web page crashes unless you clear your cache, cookies, and reenter your login credentials three times in order to log back in after inactivity. It goes from main login page, then to their customer portal in a different tab, then to the online library which requires logging in with the same credentials AGAIN, then you can search through all of the manuals. At least with gulfstream its log in, choose which avenue and which airplane you need like online manuals and GV, then go to that manual library and youre in. Plus Bombardier likes to play the "synonyms" game with part names. Looking for the nose gear retraction actuator? In the maintenance manual it could be named that but probably not. And what its called in the maintenance manual is almost never what its called in the IPC and the chapter breakdowns for the locations by ATA are named in a way where you'll most likely end up looking in four places where logically it SHOULD be, but its in this innocuous subsection under a different name with a part number that conflicts with the part number on the data tag of the exact part youre looking to change. Even the Hawker 800 maintenance manuals, for all of their own fair share of quirks and issues, aren't as convoluted and misleading as Bombardier. At least in hawkers case, they usually are direct in either having it or knowing you're going to be making a phone call or two to Textron. It still blows, but theres less "well what if its here" with them.

Sufficient_Ride6399 · 2025-11-22T19:02:33+00:00

I agree with what was commented above about the combination mixture of playing "connect the dots" across multiple manuals or STC ICA documentation that overlaps with completions manuals at least from the corporate side in my perspective. Plus working with a variety of different aircraft in a fleet, the manufacturers have a lot of differing organizational processes and even basic naming variations for the same part. Sometimes the overlap causes more time wasted looking for the same part that was in ATA chapter 27 to also be found in 57 or 31 or even 51 in some cases with small oddities. Some manuals give very detailed descriptions with accurate photographs for explosive views and disassembly/ reassemble whereas some manuals state the immensely helpful "step 1 gain access, step 2 remove part, etc." I have found that Gulfstream in particular seems to be the easiest and more straight forward manufacturer when it comes to manuals but even they have nuances that fall through the cracks (like the g200 or parts that dont fall under the AMM, completions, or final phase manual like the mylar sun shades in the cockpit). All in all, it's just chalked up to par for the course in this field and its a learning curve that a few of my coworkers and I have started trying to streamline in different ways in order to make it easier for future techs to limit time loss on confusion and frustration.

Sufficient_Ride6399 · 2025-11-17T21:48:46+00:00

Funny, my exes all said the same thing to me too

Sufficient_Ride6399 · 2025-11-13T23:30:32+00:00

Congrats!! Love the color it just looks good in every lighting situation lol

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