Heard a story about a guy who saw some fluid squirting out of a small hose in a ch53. Asked the crew chief if that leak was bad. Crew chief said it’s will be bad if it stops leaking.
There was a saying in H-46 squadrons going on cruises, add 4 53’s to your squadron double your maintainence. They were pigs.
I was an aircrewman on 53E’s in the 90’s. We used to run a hydraulic line behind the soundproofing connected to a hand pump. After takeoff one of use would pump the hand pump to create a fake leak just to freak out the grunts for fun. When they pointed it out we would go bang on it with a wrench to make it look like we fixed it. Ahh...the memories.