MMI Week 8 (Done)

I got another 100 on the test Friday night. Again it wasn't that complicated a test so I'm not patting myself on the back for it but a 100 is a 100. What I am proud of myself for is getting perfect scores on all the tasks we've had so far. You have to do (example numbers here) 15 primary tasks and 10 secondary ones. These can range from answering 50 questions from a service manual or owners manual to tearing down a transmission, or engine or both and measuring all the insides. I'm working with another person, not by choice, and we've just about completed all the primary tasks and we've started the secondary ones. We have till 10pm Friday night next week to finish all of them. We were cruising through them all pretty good till last night when I went to get some computer parts systems tasks done while he started taking the transmission apart so we could finish measuring.....big mistake. I shouldn't have turned my back on him. I got over there and he had it apart but he let a couple other people start asking him questions and it messed him up with the measurements. It took us all night to get it straightened out. We should have finished that task, the computer tasks and made strong progress, if not finished one or two secondary tasks. So now next week we'll have to bust our butts to finish all the tasks. If we can continue to get all the projects perfect we'll finish the class with a 100.

It aggrivates him when I make us measure stuff two and three times then sometimes recheck it again if the numbers look even a little off. Too bad. I'm not gonna get in the habit of half assing the numbers. When you're talking about a transmission a little number fudge could very well get someones transmission locked up when they're doing 60mph and kill them. I'm not having that on my head. Let alone the ruined reputation for half assed work.

I'm starting to get a little more comfortable with tearing into stuff and putting it back together. All the mixed up terminology used around the school is driving me nuts though I must admit. Something as simple as a bolt could have 10 different names and screwing it in could be described in as many ways.

I'm sticking with my plan of going slow and doing it right as opposed to fast and fix it later. In my experience its easier to spend some time getting faster and doing it right first than to spend time fixing it when you did it faster first.

MMI Week 8

It's been a lot of the same from last week. We're still measuring but we're taking apart a little more to do it. The engines are getting a little more complicated and we're getting frustrated with new parts instead of the old ones. I'm starting to realize I like getting ticked off and pulling my hair out because it just means I'm doing something I haven't done before and it's forcing my brain to work. Don't try and tell me that when I'm in the middle of pulling out my hair though. You might get hit with a wrench.

I'll enjoy this even more, I think, when I don't have to do it with someone else and I can sit there and stare at something for a minute while trying to figure it out and not have to deal with "here lemme do it!". It's nice to have another person to bounce ideas off of but I enjoy trying to figure out something myself a little more.

This is a VERY tedious class with a lot of staring at micrometers. I'm starting to get a headache from doing it 100 times a night but in the end it'll help me learn it and I know that so I suck it up and get to it.

Tonight we start on transmissions. I think. It doesn't matter really. It's still better than towing cars or pulling cables through walls.