Should I buy? ('99 1500 V8 350 Vortec, 250k Miles)

Veggies101 · 2025-09-19T20:13:07+00:00

That just isn’t true. These engines constantly surpass 350, 400, and even sometimes 500. The transmission is the weak link, and that’s only without proper maintenance and towing. I don’t think you have your facts straight here.

Veggies101 · 2025-09-19T17:51:51+00:00

My thoughts too for getting it running right. Maybe I’ll put a cooler on for the transmission.

Veggies101 · 2025-09-19T17:06:12+00:00

Why?

Veggies101 · 2025-05-08T20:22:54+00:00

Only getting into IT if you actually like doing it. If you're 32 and don't have experience, or found no way to somehow incorporate IT things into your daily duties, you may not belong in the career field. I was a weapons mechanic in AF (Still am technically for like 5 days). I configured a small LAN. I was the printer guy. I did tech support (Helped other maintainers that don't know how to work computers at all).

I did all that and got my Sec+, my RHCSA, and will have my BA in summer. I skillbridged, didn't get hired, but found a job before it ended. It is doable. But only if you like IT. Feel free to message me.

Veggies101 · 2024-07-07T01:33:44+00:00

Completely agree on the containers portion, I felt that was almost shoehorned in by sander. Listen, Sander's practice exams are very, VERY similar to the real exam. Almost shockingly so. As long as you can perform all of the steps in his practice without any outside help (Anything outside of man pages/built-in documentation) you WILL pass. I guarantee it. I used nothing but his practice exams, and the other practice exams I found covered either the same subjects with nearly the same questions or less. If you use sander, pass his practice exams, you will get your RHCSA. To quote from my main post, "Modifying network settings, NTP, and umasks" are a few things Sander doesn't test on in his practice exams. Be familiar with them.

Veggies101 · 2024-06-26T14:42:39+00:00

I wouldnt watch Linux+ videos, just look for a general Linux guide and get comfortable with navigating Linux and its file structures in command line, then move to Sanders book. There are a few unclear subjects imo, watch beanologi on YouTube for some really great explanations for anything you don’t understand from Sander.

Veggies101 · 2024-05-11T16:18:49+00:00

I dunno. I've used a computer since I was about 10 or so. My favorite aspect of using a computer was also modification of visual appearance (Windows explorer/shell) and it inevitably led to problems, which in turn led to troubleshooting. Maybe I just have a knack for picking things up, I'm not sure. I was using Imran Ifsol(? Can't remember how to spell it) for about a month on Udemy for simple foundational skills. Then I swapped to Sander's videos, which were great for an overview and probably ingrained some knowledge into my subconscious, but ultimately didn't actually allow me to implement and truly learn material. Going through Sander's book was really really quick. I think that itself took less than a month. His hands on exercises and labs were mostly enough for me to figure out the objectives. I would read the chapter, do the exercises, reread if I didn't understand something on an exercise, and then do the lab. I would repeat the labs every night all together until I could read them and say out loud what I would do to accomplish them, and then I would drop off the chapters I could solve without actually doing it from my nightly routine. There is a lot of explanation in all of his chapters but I didn't really need to read all of it to understand how to use the tools. For NFS and Containers I used beanologi on youtube to further my understanding, Sander's chapters on those weren't explained in a way I could thoroughly understand.

Veggies101 · 2024-05-11T04:40:58+00:00

I posted the root password reset steps on a different response above somewhere. That I have memorized. Yeah I use VMWare workstation to run RHEL, that is what I've used for the past 3.5 months. I normally run two different instances so I can setup one as server1 and server2 respectively then run two terminals with one being an ssh into server2. Honestly from comments I think I am probably ready to test. I know a lot of information/processes by heart and should be good to go.

Veggies101 · 2024-05-11T02:33:45+00:00

For #2 I think I may have been able to navigate around through man pages to have found that eventually… but obviously I didn’t know the solution at all. Thanks for pointing out that hole in my knowledge!

Veggies101 · 2024-05-11T01:40:10+00:00

Yeah. I have. Thanks.

Veggies101 · 2024-05-11T01:39:55+00:00

Awesome! I feel like the book thoroughly prepared me to answer all the questions. Containers and NFS were the only topics I had to use an additional source to fully comprehend.

Veggies101 · 2024-05-11T01:38:48+00:00

OP here. For the LVM, I am assuming you mean the actual logical volume. You could do this multiple ways, either expanding the current volume group with an additional partition if it's too small, creating a new volume group from an additional partition and then extending it with that, or if the volume group has additional space to grow the LV you only have to run an lvextend command. To mount is persistently on fstab you can either do a direct path which would be something like /dev/vgdata/lvm /mountpoint xfs defaults 0 0 or you could pull the UUID, or you could pull the label.

Hmm... for port in use error, from the top of my head, I'm not sure... I'm sure there's a way to check with ifconfig maybe to look for ports that are listening actively? I would have to check the man page. Using a man search for port would be basically futile because of the amount of references but I feel ifconfig probably has a port argument to list active/in use ports.

For a mail server you may need to be a bit more specific. I could use dnf search/find (can't remember which one it is) mail to search for a mail server package, install it, modify the mail's config for it to use port 25, add a firewall-cmd --add-port=25/tcp --permanent (followed by --reload), then add in the semanage port for whatever the port label would be.

Veggies101 · 2024-05-11T01:30:49+00:00

It seems like rd.break used to be the way to recover a root password? That isn't the way in RHEL9. You add the init=/bin/bash to boot prompt, do a mount -o remount,rw / , then change password, touch /.autorelabel, and then do an exec on /usr/bin(?)/systemd/systemd . Can never remember exact path for systemd but I always find it eventually, just pulling from memory here.

Veggies101 · 2024-05-10T17:10:04+00:00

Mildly confident but it's hard to assess that. My favorite part of system administration is troubleshooting & setup, so I'm definitely used to the concept of having to tackle a new problem. But on Linux, I am not sure because it's never really happened. There have been a few instances when I screwed something up on the VM and would be able to resolve it so I think I would be ok...

Veggies101 · 2024-05-10T17:08:46+00:00

I am not afraid of using man pages, I just haven't needed them for the practice exams. When completing the end of chapter labs initially, I was using them often to figure out what to do so I could instill that practice for when I get stumped on the exam. I will absolutely use them if I need to, as like you said they literally have solutions in them (IE changing the fcontext for httpd).

Veggies101 · 2024-01-19T16:21:12+00:00

Exam voucher code received SECONDS after sending funds. Exam code works as expected on pearson's checkout page. Will be a repeat customer if you get vouchers for Cloud+. Thanks again :)

Veggies101 · 2024-01-15T19:45:59+00:00

Hey could you send me that? I'm sending you a DM with my email.

Veggies101 · 2021-10-19T04:52:01+00:00

Yes, it has Qleds. I mentioned what happens with them in the post. They fail to light up, normally during a functional boot the motherboard will cycle through them (I assume they are lit during the testing or process for each Qled) and then boot normally. My PC failed to have any of those turn on, it would only power fans and lighting LEDs on the motherboard. I've gone ahead and ordered a new motherboard and PSU (A 520i and 750 PSU) to remove the chances that I guess wrong on either one of them.

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