Imagine trying to diagnose this problem....

[njsteve]

I remember back in the 70's they used to have this national level contest for automotive technicians that involved them having to diagnose and fix a non running car in the fastest time. They used to rig the cars with devices like this piece. I remember once they used black painted cardboard and substituted it for the carb base plate gaskets. When you looked down the throat of the carb it was dark so you didnt think anything of it, but the car still would not run. The first team to discover the problem won the contest.

[Lynn]

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I remember back in the 70's they used to have this national level contest for automotive technicians that involved them having to diagnose and fix a non running car in the fastest time. They used to rig the cars with devices like this piece. I remember once they used black painted cardboard and substituted it for the carb base plate gaskets. When you looked down the throat of the carb it was dark so you didnt think anything of it, but the car still would not run. The first team to discover the problem won the contest.

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I remember that. One year they replaced the center contact on a ford dist cap with a piece of wood.

Really silly if you ask me. It isn't like you would ever encounter these kinds of problems in a typical repair shop.

[Bill Pritchard]

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I remember back in the 70's they used to have this national level contest for automotive technicians that involved them having to diagnose and fix a non running car in the fastest time. They used to rig the cars with devices like this piece. I remember once they used black painted cardboard and substituted it for the carb base plate gaskets. When you looked down the throat of the carb it was dark so you didnt think anything of it, but the car still would not run. The first team to discover the problem won the contest.

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I remember that too....wasn't that sponsored by Chrysler/Plymouth? Seems to me that it went the way of the dinosaurs around the time they started using computers in the cars.

[Verne_Frantz]

Yes, it was a Chrysler/Plymouth contest. I have an article or an advertisement about it stuffed somewhere.

Now I KNOW that is all that's needed for Dog to dig it up. He seems to know the controls to Sherman's WayBack machine......

Verne

[Dog427435]

Plymouth sponsored “The Plymouth Troubleshooting Contest” in the US and Chrysler sponsored one
in Canada. There were thousands of schools in the US that participated and hundreds in Canada.
Teams of two students each were given a car which would not start and each team had to determine
the problem and then fix it within an allotted time period.
Rick Hendrick won the Virginia division of the Chrysler-Plymouth Troubleshooting Contest at 15.
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[PeteLeathersac]

I remember when our school went one of the tricks was they had closed the gaps on all the plugs to create the no-spark condition..


~ Pete