Re: Beweare of your boat mechanic
labguy said:
I took my old boat to one last May and the only thing it needed was a shift interrupter. Ran great, no issues whatsoever, but had to turn motor off to go from forward to neutral.
that's because you actually needed a new lower shift cable, the interupter was doing what it was supposed to, cutting power to the ignition. The cable was binding and causing the interupt switch to stay on longer than necessary.
faztbullet said:
I know a dealer that hired a young fellow straight out from MMI school and he could talk " mechanic" but he could not work on "old stuff".
I know what you mean. I went through MMI.
MMI is more of a turkey farm for turkeys than it is a marine tech school.
They refuse to boot students aside from attendence problems. A student can knowingly cheat on a written exam... they get passed as long as the school loan fannie mae money is comming in and their attendence is good.
I'll mention just 2 of my various complaints with MMI.
In Volvo clinics. We had our Volvo finals, 50 questions, multiple choice. There were 25 of us or so in this particular class. At one table sat 5 cuban folks. Nice enough people, but could barely speak a work of english. (not bashing here, they were all good kids) The test was questions that could only be answered by pulling the engine specific service manual and reading it. For example, what is the base timing for XYZ engine, What is the torque spec on a head bolt for XYZ engine. Well all 5 of those cubans passed in their test within 30 minutes and all aced the test. It took me 2 1/2 hours to complete it, and I got a 98.... Somehow I missed 1.
Point 2. I was in Suzuki clinic. Clinic was 15 days/75 hours. Clinic is a combination of instructor lecture and lab work time. By day 7 I was done with all my labs graded at 100%. A+. Days 8 through 15 consisted of me showing up late, leaving early, extended lunch breaks. Sitting there and doing the crosswords... etc.
Attendence is such a big part of the overall grade at MMI. Over the course of the program. My test score average was 97%. My lab score average was 99%. They have what they call professionalism points. Professionalism points start at 100% and then are deducted by every time you are late or leave early, and also can be deducted if you disobey the instructor or are sloppy in your appearence. My prof points at the end of the entire program was 0. I was late to many times and left to many times in every clinic that my overall score was 0. Prof points were worth 20% of the overall grade. Attendence points were worth 10% of the overall grade as well. My attendence was 90.1% 90.0% is the lowest you can go before they fail you. All and all I finished with a 70.2 GPA and got my 25K piece of toilet paper.
I actually sat down one day and figured out what I was paying to be in Suzuki clinic. I got a dollar amount, then went to the dean to ask for a refund, as I completed in both test scores and application scores (lab) in 7 days what some folks don't complete in 15. The jerk dean laughed me out.
MMI switched buildings to the new campus while I was there... Many things were not up to code. I had the last laugh when I wrote simulatianious letters to OHSHA, The president of MMI, and forwareded the email to every single person on the board of directors. On top of that I dropped the same email in a forum board that stock traders use specifically for UTI.
? They didn't do any thing to it. There are peaces of old water pump in the pump! and They didn't put gaskets on the drain plugs for the lower unit letting the lower unit fill up with water. Like my grandfather always said the only person you can trust is your self. Here are so pic's
