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Well, I got a positive response from the local HS Auto Shop teacher. He's coming over Thurday PM to check out my project. We'll see how it goes from there.

BTW, I have the personal liability and medical insurance covered, although that didn't come up in discussion with the teacher.

Craig

I'd double check with your insurance agent but pretty sure your personal liability is not good enough.

I had hoped to do similar. I contacted our local High School Career Center and they will not accept personal cars for students to learn on. They are quoting Uniformity and that they only teach with "training segments to ensure that all students are able to get the same types of experiences while working to achieve state and national standards".

I have a few helpers in their early 20's but they are limited on their availability. One will be mh Son-In-Law next summer and he is in Pre-Med so I wont complain. He is worthless when it comes to hand tools so he has a lot of learning but he makes a great Gopher. I had to explain my shirt to him earlier tonight. "18346572- Its a Packard Thing"

what about the boy scouts?

Troy, maybe you mean: 1-8-4-3-6-5-7-2? There are other chapters too: 1-6-2-5-8-3-7-4 and 1-5-3-6-2-4.

Since you introduced the subject: The Cord 810 and 812 V-8s had a more unusual organization where all the cylinders on one bank were fired then all the others on the other bank fired. It seems to work just fine.

Still, I like the six "code" and may use it.

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oops, typo, thanx, I swear Im getting dyslexic these days. didnt know that about Cord, now Im gonna have to go do some reading.

I suppose that since I've had my 1956 V-8 for only a year or so, I can be forgiven for not noticing the firing order. But fifty years of owning Chevy Small Blocks have tattooed the same firing order into my brain. Now all that Delco-Remy and Rochester stuff is starting to make sense.

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Troy, there is a great new book about the 810 and 812 Cords, "The Cord Complete". A comprehensive telling of the design, development, and marketing of the cars. Well worth having on your bookshelf. Reading all the problems encountered with these cars was, to me, a parallel to what Packard was going through with their 1955-56 cars.

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Getting help around the garage is difficult at best.

Have you considered the Boys Clubs of America? Also why not discuss the problem with a High School Counselor.

There are boys and girls out there who don't fit into the academic world, who are hands on, have promise, but need to be shown that they can be a success outside of the academic world. Probably make more money and be happier than if they did try to shoe horn themselves into academic courses.

Also you might consider a person from a newly arrived group. Hard work and learning skills are two things recent immigrants are ready to accept.

You may find that helping a young person also helps you if the process is approached with an open attitude.

I look forward to reading of your further efforts in finding someone.

I taught for 40 years and one of my most successful students never graduated, but as a grocery store vegetable and fruit manager he now has 4 rental houses and buying another!!! Zougeride Exotic Tomball, Texas

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It is not so much as uniformity as the lesson plan.

My younger brother teaches Automotive at a local junior college and I asked him why younger kids are not working on older cars. He said that the school discovered that none of our old cars fit the what is taught to work on modern cars. Remember the purpose of the school to train the students for a job in a dealership and make a living.

What modern car has a carburetor?
What modern car has drum brakes that need adjusting to avoid pulling or drag?
What modern car has a distributor you can work on?
Points? Condensers? Use of a timing light? Dwell meter?

I could go on and on.

Instead it is all about the re-programming the car's computer chip. Forget about repairing anything, just replace the bad module with a new module. With the average hourly repair rate of $100 you don't fool around with repairs, you just throw new parts at it. Not like back in the day.