FLUE ya beat me too it..

 

yea and that fine, just saw some post where its just random part replacement no real reason i thought it was funny.when u replace a part because ur doin another that needs it, that still falls into that preventitive category.

and to the unregistered user guy i mean you can come over if you want but i dont know what your lookin to satisfy,but when i get home from being deployed your more than welcome to come over if you feel the need to be a dick about something.

 

I don't have any trouble getting the parts on there when SoCo helps me work on my truck, I just tend to have extra nuts and bolts.
I don't get it, I see three words and a number.
Since you mention the water pump as one of the unnecessarily changed parts think about this, say you're cruising down a road on a Saturday that has no traffic on the weekends and all of a sudden the water pump quits on your truck. You figure that it isn't a problem since you have a cell phone, but when you pick it up you realize that it is dead. Now you think that you will charge it, but the battery is dead in the truck too. Okay, no problem, say you have a booster box in the truck. You jump it and run it just long enough to charge the phone to call someone. Now you have help on the way so no worries. You get home and change the water pump but when you go to start the truck, it just won't turn over. What could be the problem? You tear the motor down and see that you have a whole mess of things wrong like seized up pistons, cracked heads, scored cylinder walls etc...
And that is all because you didn't want to change the water pump while you had the front of the motor torn apart when you changed the timing chain because you figured you could get another 50,000 miles out of it.

Just something to think about. If you're already elbow deep in the motor and one of the parts that you took off to get to something else tends to go bad right around the mileage that you currently have then it doesn't hurt to go ahead and change it.

 

Lighten up and don't play keyboard commando. It's not a good way to make friends here. You're on Active Duty -- big deal. Been there, done that, own the t-shirt. Just come home in one piece and tells us some sea stories/battlefield stories, OK?

 

im not playin keyboard commando, just said he could come over if he feels the need. but anyways... i dont have many stories really cuz im a just a crew chief on f16s so all i do is get bombs shot at me and stuff like that. and then ill send out my plane to go blow some **** up. thats bout all the stories i got.

 

I thought all the f16's were getting decommissioned, have you heard anything about that? On the subject of your job, didn't our wonderful president decide to do away with the f-22's also (despite the fact that they're awesome)?

 

You can say THAT again! Worked at Lockheed in GA for a few years when they first developed that one. Spent many an afternoon watching them do test instead of doing my work. Lots of us did.

 

f-22's also (despite the fact that they're awesome)?

 

^^ Um, killed a plane that was to combat a threat that no longer exists.

I worked for Lockheed. What a ****ed-up, unprofessional organization. I swear that if they will the next bid on the FAA contract I work I'll leave. I would never recommend Lockheed to anyone looking for a job.

 

Ok, so maybe they're not completely necessary but they are pretty cool.