Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 9, 1923, Page 15

————— i | / a How To Change Gears Quietly © A Hill With Ease and Certainty Do you wait until you hear th: knock, knock, clank of the engine | ‘#¢4 on a steeper grade. when driving up a stiff bill, before you think about changing to a lower gear. The great majority of driv- ers wait until the engine s'ows way down and starts to labor and knock before they try to change gear. This is a very bad habit, for it puts @ severe strain on both engine and transmission. The reason why most wait until the lart minute to change, and why they will not change at all on a hill if they can possibly avoid it, is because they are not confident they are able to make a Silent, certain change from a high to a lower gear it the car is traveling at any speed. Just why is it that so many driv- ers, who can make a perfectly silent change from a low to a_high- er gear, find it so difficult to change from a higher to a low gear! I think I can tell you. When you change up. if you ure the usual “single-declutching" method, after you push in the clutch pedal, you move the shift lever fairly slowly from low speed to second speed po- sition, and from second to high speed. ‘The reason for this is that you must give the “lay” shaft in the gear box time to slow dowh so that the teeth of the gear wheel at tached to the shaft will be revo'v- ing at the same ypeed as the teeth on the gear wheel yuu have to en- gage on the “main shaft.” If the “lay shaft either too fast or too slow, the ‘\. teeth on the gear wheel attached to the shaft will slip past the teeth on the wheel attached to the ‘ main” shaft, and you will then hear a clashing and grinding of gear wheels. In changing from « low to a higher gear, you must allew the “lay” shaft to reduce speed an‘ you do this by pausing, sightly when moving the shift lever from one gear to the other or, if you 0 PUSH IN CLUTCH: PEDAL MOVING SHIFT LEVER SMARTLY INTO GEAR AS YOU 00 SO. ure the “double-declutching” meth- od previously described, the engine itself siows down the “lay” shaft. When you change from a high to a lower gear, you just reverse the above conditions. You then have to engage the small wheel on the “lay” shaft in the gear box with a large wheel on the ‘ main” shaft, and to bring the teeth on the small wheel on the “lay” shaft up to the same speed as the teeth on the “main” shaft, you must increare the speed of the “lay” shaft. You can readi'y see, therefore, that if you pause or are slow in moving the gear shift lever from a high to @ lower gear the gears will grind and c’ash, and may even refuse to gage at all. Now it is just as jasy to make a change from high gear to second gear with absolute silence and certainty, even at 20 miles an hour, if yor make the change in the right way. The double de-clutching method is the only sure method of changing gear silently at any spect. When you are changing up from low to a higher gear, you use the engine to reduce the speed of the “lay” shaft. When. however, you are changing from a high to a lower gean, you use the engine to in- crease the speed of the ‘ lay” shaft Last week I described the way to change up with this method—now I will show you how to use it for changing dcwn. Study the illustrations, they show each movement step by step. When you wish to change first lift your foot off the accelerator, then as you push the clutch pedal in, move the shift lever to neutral. The in- stant the shift lever is in neutra!, let the clutch,pedal back and at the me time give the accelerator a J asic tap to speed up the engine, then smartly push in the c'utch pedal, at the same time snapping the shift lever into second speed. As soon as the gear is engaged let the clutch petal back and acceler ate in the usual way. The whole movement should not take more than from 1% to 2 seconds. Practice each movement slowly while t in the driving seat without the engine running. It may scem a little difficult at first, but it will soon come to you. When. you are able to make the movements in the proper order, take the car out on the road and try changing from high to second gear with the car travelling at about 15 miles an hour. is_ revolving | Q try it at 20 miles an hour. nm you can make the change on level, try it on a slight grade, The extent you require to speed up the engine when you tap the ac- celerator, wil depend to a certain extent on the speed you are travel- ling. If, for example, you are trav- elling at 25 mies an hour, you youd speed vn the more than you would if you were only trae? ne 15m rae it @ little practice, pu owill find you engine silent change of gear on the steep- est hill at any speed. Next Week—How to Use Brakes Correctly. (Coypright 1922 by the S. N. nica! Syndicate.) ROLLER CHAINS SHOULD BE WELL LUBRICATED: GOOD METHOD DESCRIBED Chains that run in places where they accumulate dust and grit can only be efficiently lubricated by re- moving them from the sprokets, then soaking thoroughly in a bath of gasoline or kerosene to remove the mud and grit. Following this L. Tech :| treatment they shou'd be thoroughly dried and p ed in a bath of lubri- bé able to make a quick, sure, THIS I Light-Six Light-Six cant. For this some recommend lubricating grease heated to about 150 to 175 degrees, in which the chain is allowed to remain until the working parts have been sufficiently heated to allow the grease to flow into all parts and fill the spaces Others recommend a mixture beef tallow and flake graphit sisting of three parts tallow and one patt graphite. This mixture is put into a pan and heated almost to the boiling point, and then, while still hot, the chain is drawn s‘owly through it back aad forth, until all joints has been thoroughly lubricat- ed. The next step is to lay the chain full length on the floor or on a bench and push the links together to make the chain as short as pos- sible, then leave the chain undis- turbed until’ the Iubricant has be- come set or hardened. This plan results not only in the chain being thoroughly lubricated, but by allow- ing the lubricant to dry, it serves to protect the rollers from dust and grit.—Automobile Digest. rb ices on udebaker Closed Cars two-pass. 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