Technical Something wrong with my Scribbler! (funny)

Just when you thought you heard it all.

A customer comes into the shop today, says my OT Mopar stopped running.
He says "There is sumptin wrong with my Scribbler, it stopped Scribblin"
Me- "your what?"
He-"my Scribbler"
Me-"what the f##k is a scribbler?
He-"that thing the spark plug wires go in"
Me- "you mean the distributor?"
He- "ya, it don't scribble anymore"

That's a new one on me!
Love it when customers self diagnose what's wrong!

Bill

 

I prefer that over dizzy

 

I heard they were lightnin' whirlers ....

 

Yuppers to that, Unless you actually live in Australia don't freaking use dizzy or worse yet Carbie around me.

 

Back about 50 years ago I spent the most of one hour day going over a Pontiac wagon that the owner said had a rattle in the front end. Checked every bolt on the suspension, checked all over the sheet metal, test drive it up the rough street a block from the shop several times and nothing. Guy comes to get his car, drives it and comes back and says the rattle is still there, I went for a ride with him and he hits the bumps on that same street and points to the defroster duct and says "the rattle is still there in the front end" It was a #2 pencil that he had dropped in the defroster. It cost him for six hours labor for wasted time on that one.

 

Had a guy tell me his walves were ka nocken.

 

Muh scribblers awll scrambled up, alls I did was put the wires on straight. They was awll crossed up, now it wont run worth a sheeit.

 

I had a guy come into the parts store asking for "pecking hens" for his Pontiac. After lots of head scratching, he wanted rocker arms.

 

Maybe it was the bug eating the scribbler?

 

And to my ear Eddy is even worse than carbie.

 

You'll have to forgive us... those who could not use the King's English were sent Down Under 235 years ago. We haven't improved over time

Cheers,
Harv

 

How about the world famous 710 cap? That one threw me for a loop the first time a customer wanted a new one.

 

was he 4 years old? then it is OK

 

Exotic sports cars use a cursive system.

 

I too use a cursive system. I frequently curse at my vehicles, though none are exotic sports cars.

As an aside, carburettor is a French word. The English translation is "don't @#$% with it".

Cheers,
Harv

 

Yeah, and don't tell me you blew a tranny either!

 

I dunno, maybe we have it right and everyone else speaks funny.

 

Actually we spell it tranni.

 

Indian guy I was doing a job for said there was a problem with his "fool tank". I had to stop myself from asking how many fools does it take to fill it?
" The timing of the dizzy was on the knocker, the carby adjustment was apples, the bananas got rid of the whine in the diff, and a pound of bog fixed the rust" - Australian 1960 mechanics exam.
"I always throw my fag ends out the quarter vent". - Australian motoring etiquette, 1957

 

Do we? I would have thought trannie.
Trannie swinger is another one that just re-entered my head.

 

The carb needed an exhilerator pump.

 

I NEVER let a trannie enter, let alone re enter, anything of mine, no matter how you spell it!

 

I get no air from da punka louvers

 

No, sorry you Aussie’s definitely speak funny.

 

Hey! Punka(h) louvers are a real thing!

More than you ever wanted to know about Punkah Louvers . . .

https://rcmproducts.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/P4.3.R0-PKL-Punkah-Louvre.A4.pdf

 

Had a customer come in years ago stating had no "Sparkle" to the plugs----"My son and I checked it several times and there's no sparkle" He must've said "Sparkle" 8 times during our conversation---

 

Very similar to a wemac