Hi there, in 1969 the Draft Lottery was kind to me and with a number of 311 I wasn't going to be visiting beautiful South Vietnam. My Uncle (Not Sam) asked me what I wanted to do and I said Dealership Mechanic. i had been fiddling with cars since 12 or so and had every Motors manual cover to cover. It turned out in 1969 the Buick Division of General Motors was starting a class to train technicians to repair Buicks and the future technology they knew was coming. So a year later I was fully indoctrinated in the world of David Dunbar Buick and also Adam Opel. I went though a progression of Opels, Light Line (water pumps, VC gaskets etc,), Heavy Line, (Major Engine), Front End and Brakes, Auto Trans-Man Trans-Axles, and finally landed in the top job in the shop, Tune Up and AC. I got to see AIR,EGR, Cat Converter, Feedback Carbs, TBI, PFI, from the low point of a Full Size 76 Le Sabre V6 to the High Point of the GNX. In the 75 time frame I became involves with the Drivability Teams in Flint, then in Kokomo. Houston Zone had a number of issues related to our climate. Evap Cores being saturated with condensate and spitting water, hot soaks percolating the fuel out of Carbs and leaving the bowl dry. We got a RVP kit (Reid Vapor pressure) to test fuel and report to Buick, figured out that the fuel was forming vapor bubbles as it turned under the Jet in the Q-Jet (that one was tough, went thru 100 Proms to no avail) and we are at saturation here so to cut short, Ended up in the SAE scan tool development, worked for one of the founding companies of SnapOn Diag. Failure Analysis data mining... Ok I'll quit. All I do now is vote on SAE practices, take my tackle box full of dial back timing light, carb adj tools, laptop full of specs and have fun tuning and fixing pre-81 cars. I believed in two basic principals of life in my early mechanic days, Buicks have H plant codes, and when better cars are built, Buick will build them shew what a bunch of sentences, cya round the forum
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