pumping gas, but the business ethic of doing the best job possible was seeded and took root.

In the 40’s I.V. moved the company to Snyder, Texas, located in the heart of the Permian

Basin Oil and Gas production fields, to apply the team’s skills of servicing automobiles and

their engines, to servicing drilling engines.


It was a big deal for the country back then, we were on the preciface of a second world

war and the country needed oil to drive the machines of freedom. The demand for their

skills was great.


From there its simply a story of one thing leading to another. In the forties and fifties their

talents for engine work spread across the West Texas production fields and soon,

petroleum engineers began stopping by to speak with I.V. about special projects,

modifications, and the tools they needed as they brought their drilling fields into production.


Soon I.V. added a machine shop, expanded the team, and formally founded Y-Z Carburetor

Service in 1949. Initially a partnership between John Young and I.V. Zeck, hence the

name YZ, John Young soon found the challenges of entrepreneurship a little too much to

handle and turned his portion of the business over to I.V.


For the next 30 years the business stayed the course, expanded their product offering,

and added a son to the business, Ted Zeck . During that time YZ began building crude oil

and light petroleum fluid sampling systems, by furnishing complete skids.