Re: A tale of whoa.....diagnosing my Packard

Posted by Craig Hendrickson On 2011/5/8 17:17:17

There's a similar story about a near-to-production vehicle that would basically stop when run at the factory test track about some speed (maybe 50mph?). It was driving the test engineers nuts because if they removed the hood and rode on the fenders during a test run (try that today with OSHA around), the car ran perfectly. Put the hood back on and it would stop at speed.

It turns out the problem was an inspection tag that was wired to the underside of the hood somewhat in front of the air cleaner inlet. At speed, the tag would be sucked back into the inlet, stopping the air flow and the car. Some "brilliant" engineer figured this out after looking carefully at the underside of the hood.

Maybe someone remembers the specifics of this story...

Craig