Shortcuts, many times they are great. They save us time, they save us distance and they save us extra work. As a technician, you utilize short cuts every day. It may be that new tool that allowed you to complete the job 20 minutes sooner, or a new technique to execute a repair that a new tech brought with him from his old shop. Remember that first time when you saw someone unbolt the pick-up truck box so he could raise it up in order to get to the fuel pump located on top of the fuel tank? I remember the first time I saw that. I also remember the other technicians standing around in a group laughing and making jokes about this unorthodox way of replacing a fuel pump. The rest were all old school on this. Raise the vehicle up, unbolt the straps (hopefully not rusty and they don't break), raise the jack up under the tank, bring the tank down and hope and pray that the tank is not full of gas and that you disconnected every fuel line. That is the way it has been done for years. If it ain't broke, don't fix it, right? We have heard that expression for years.
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