Imagine trying to diagnose this problem....

[njsteve]

Full tank of gas, new carbs, fuel pump and fuel lines and still no gas to the engine.

Those would be the hypothetical symptoms.

This would be the cause...

I found this in my drawer of old fittings. It is the primary "T" fitting for a 426 Hemi fuel line setup (6-Packs used a similar one and I think Chevys did too).

The bottom outlet is drilled through properly:



The exit outlet is drilled through properly:



But the inlet in not drilled and is solid brass:




Looks like a factory practical joke played on some poor bastard like us who ends up buying that repro fuel line.

Let that be a lesson to you all: Always check the stupid simple stuff first.

Now, whose car can we install this on that would appreciate the practical joke????

[Xplantdad]

That's crazy Steve...

[firstgenaddict]

Can you imagine how long it would take to figure that one out? Fuel pump, lines, carb, pickup, cam lobe... the list goes on and on...

[427TJ]

Not to mention all the mental cruelty involved with tracking this down. Go throw that f-ing piece in a big lake.

[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