----- Original Message -----
From: "paul carrier" <paulc@teleport.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Monday, May 28, 2001 12:38 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] STE/ICE Tester for CUCV
> At 01:53 PM 5/28/01 -0400, you wrote:
> >Hi all!
> >Anyone know where to get one? How much $?
> >Stu Ellis
> >
>
> Not sure it would be worth the money Stu,
> We have one in the unit and it NEVER gets used.
>
> Reason, most of my senior people are full time mechanics at the CSMS and
> they never use the STE. Neither do the mechanics at the OMS shops.
>
> Old fashion trouble shooting is the preferred method.
They're useless. We have six HMMWV's, and as Paul says, old-fashioned
trouble-shooting skills win out over the STE-ICE contraption every time.
Besides, one of our lot who bought up a whole bunch of them to help him
diagnose his hummers spent a week learning that more often than not, you're
simply detecting and isolating faulty transducers instead of bona-fide
engine problems, and that he "had little time for that."
The film company I sub for holds probably a dozen of the things - each with
a respectable layer of dust sitting atop it.
The STE/ICE gadget seems to have been spawned by that sort of mindset that
brought us those abominable and unwieldy "experimental" TM's which bury any
truly valuable information in layer after layer of largely worthless
flow-chart based troubleshooting fan-folds. Then again, after seeing the
evidence of the sort of mechanical aptitude of _certain_ USMC mechanics as
respects the Humvee fleet, I can understand why such creatures exist.
Andy Hill
MVPA 9211
Vancouver, B.C. (and I did say _certain_ USMC mechanics - not the lot.)
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