[cosbytnkid]

Originally Posted by Excaliber

Interesting point HLC, a nieghbor friend of mine (young man, high school) is taking an auto shop class and he asks me questions, brings over his book, helps me work on the car, etc.

Whew, they jumped right into fuel injection, computers, antilock brakes, digital this and that. I'm thinking it's a shame they didn't start with some fundamentals! "This is a piston."

He helped set the POINTS on the Austin Healey and was fascinated they were a 'mechanical switch' instead of electronic.

Oh boy what a hoot! I laughed at your comments Excaliber about mechanical points instead of breaker less points they have nowadays. I can just see it. Now this is called a piston, it's connected to a connecting rod which in turn is hooked to the crankshaft and on and on and on. Heh heh heh I'm still laughing about it. Sounds like they really do need to get back to basics.