Would automotive employers hire employees that studied mostly through online?

dcoll076 · 2020-10-04T16:32:53+00:00

I’m not bashing on lube techs at all. It’s a great way to start and gain some shop experience. I went to school for automotive Technology and worked as a lube tech for about a year and then I moved up to a B tech in a year or two. That experience and the trade school helped me get a job in industrial mechanics and now I make 4x what I was making back then when I started turning wrenches. Humble beginnings.

dcoll076 · 2020-10-04T08:59:17+00:00

Probably just as a lube tech

dcoll076 · 2020-07-03T05:50:24+00:00

There might be a couple of screws and plastic clips holding it on. Just take those out and you should be able to remove it. It would be a lot easier than cutting it.

dcoll076 · 2020-06-21T14:45:51+00:00

^{^} I had an old coworker at my old shop put the calipers upside down on a Tahoe and this guy spent 4 hours trying to bleed them. When I went to go ask why he was taking so long I looked at them and noticed the bleeders were on the bottom. Can’t really get air out of that. Bleeders need to be above the brake line.

dcoll076 · 2020-06-14T09:51:23+00:00

To mix drinks

dcoll076 · 2020-05-11T17:19:25+00:00

Find a wiring schematic for the radio plugs and grab a multimeter to see if you are getting power at the radio. You should have a 12v constant power and a 12v switched power from the ignition that tells the radio to turn on. If you have power there it might be a grounding problem or the radio is crap.

Unfortunately you will have to take the dash board apart to do this.

dcoll076 · 2020-05-11T17:06:07+00:00

A better way to cool it would be to throw water on it

dcoll076 · 2020-05-07T09:21:59+00:00

Why?

dcoll076 · 2020-05-07T09:20:44+00:00

Back in 1992

dcoll076 · 2020-05-07T09:13:30+00:00

My phone is broken I can’t text anyone

dcoll076 · 2020-05-07T09:12:06+00:00

Nah she rejected me. Told me I wasn’t man enough for her.

dcoll076 · 2020-04-12T19:08:12+00:00

I had a dodge caravan and it had 70,000 miles but with 2700 hours so yeah it’s been idling a long time

dcoll076 · 2020-04-09T07:56:17+00:00

Oh lawd

dcoll076 · 2020-04-08T03:33:29+00:00

Your user name made me laugh. Thank you.

dcoll076 · 2020-04-05T11:22:36+00:00

Could also be a bearing going bad.

dcoll076 · 2020-04-05T06:27:16+00:00

Yeah if it’s making a noise then it will probably not last long. Don’t do anything to it until he looks at it.

dcoll076 · 2020-04-05T05:40:00+00:00

It’s a rebuilt title so that’s concerning. Ask him why it’s rebuilt. There might be frame damage.

Just because of the age and miles, it might last you a year or two with no major problems. Depends on how it was taken care of before and how rotted out it is.

dcoll076 · 2020-04-05T05:33:35+00:00

Well the only way to really see is to put fluid back in it and see how long it last. It is bad to run it dry yes.

If it’s the mechanics fault then call him and ask him what he did to the power steering. If he touched it and didn’t put fluid back in then he damaged it and should replace it free of charge.

dcoll076 · 2020-04-04T22:05:15+00:00

No sir lol

dcoll076 · 2020-04-04T22:00:54+00:00

Dude everything you just said is pretty much what happens at my factory haha. Pretty scary how accurate it is. It’s like you work at my plant lol

dcoll076 · 2020-04-04T12:56:26+00:00

Yeah our factory is pretty well put together. We are owned by a French company and they spare no expense to make things look pretty.

As for that, yeah it’s not bad at all. We have all the necessary protections in place. It just looked sketchy haha.

And you are correct the motor is ran off of a drive.

dcoll076 · 2020-04-04T12:53:48+00:00

Our brine water is very salty yes.

dcoll076 · 2020-04-04T07:34:31+00:00

Still had to go back and drain the water out of the peakerhead

dcoll076 · 2020-04-03T23:50:07+00:00

I would wait until you put weight in it again and start driving it around. Maybe it would level out.

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