Evening Star Newspaper, May 24, 1925, Page 61

THE SUNDAY MOTORIST An Abridged Magasine for Car Owners EDITED BY WILLIAM ULLMAN The man with wheels in his head never has a balance wheel among them nor does it ever occur to him that there is such an invention as a brake. Slow to Catch Up. If there is one party in the world who ought to be open to all improve- | ments and developments in the auto mobile, or in the use of the automo. bile, it is the car owner, But he has always fellow try it, and to wait until he can be shown, These points are again revived by reason of the resistance many auto mobile dealers are meeting at present in trying to sell car owners on the new car features, such as increased speed and effective stopping. \ long list of cars being offered to the motorist are capable of 4 speed of 70 miles an_ho built with the idea of deliver een the one to let the other | promptly because of the upgrade. Many cars were traveling at 3. | Obviously it causes one to speculate | as to what will be the accepted speeds by 1926 and why many motorists are trying to halt a development that is as | inevitable as flying. What's the Answer? 1. What important units of the car are included und the heading of | “unsprung weight | 2. What state paid the largest |amount in motor vehicle fees in 19247 3. Is improper parking ever a direct cause of accidents? 4. Why are springs often made stiffer on the left side of the car than on the right? 5. Do all cars use fuses in the elec- | trical system” (Think these over during the week, and look for the answers in this de- | partment next Sunday. You may be | wrong?) ) THE SU it is important to rather than to rely upon the brakes. Also remember that a serious burn can be avolded by keeping in mind that the muffler and exhaust pipe may be hot even though the engine is not running. It is all very well to make sport of the man who wears gloves when he fusses around the car, but he is wiser than you imagine. Much blood poison- ing is an aftermath of carelessness in repair work, skin cuts being hastened by unprotected hands. While the engine is running the repairer should proceed cautiously. There is danger of touching the re- volving fan, and while a shock from the ignition system may not be seri- ous in itself it may easily be the cause of jumping into trouble or dropping a tool on some exposed and moving part. As They Might Say Now. iod offers to every motor mind its choice between safety and repose.— Emerson. Choose always the way that seems best, however rough it may be. Bal- loon tires will render it easy and agreeable.—Pythagoras. Motorists are never alone who are accompanied, by noble thoughts.—Sir Philip Sidney. Did You Know— That it will prolong the life of the | front tires and enable them to wear DAY STAR, WASHINGTO R e | vlock the wheels| AUTQ THIEVES ACTIVE IN PAST FOUR MONTHS More Cars Stolen in Baltimore Than in Same Period Last Year, Is Report. BALTIMORE, May 28.—Automobile thefts here during the first four months of this year were greater than for the corresponding period last year, according to police records. Since January 1, 1923, 628 motor cars have been stolen and 599 recovered, as com- pared with 576 thefts and 550 recov erles during the same period last vear. Approximately 80 per cent of the automoblles reported stolen last month were found abandoned a few hours after thelr disappearance had been reported, according to the po lige, indicating that joy-riders are re sponsible for a majority of automo- bile thefts. ——— driver imagines they are not taking | hold at all. He may then let the| pedal back through iis final engage- ment much too suddenly. Whep the clutch is older its plates grab a little | more. The driver notices the engasge D. C, MAY 24, er and thus is more careful during the final release of the pedal. Two Parking Pointers. When you are caught between two other cars that have parked too close to you, do not jump to conclusions. Perhaps your bumpers will pass over or under the bumper for the car be- hind or the one ahead. Sometimes this will ,provide the extra foot of leeway necessary to worm out of the parking space. Chauffeurs have a parking ‘frick where spaces are limited on one-vay streets. They stop on the ‘no park: ing” side of the street and wait until there is an opening on the other side. This is entirely legal, and while it may seem to complicate traffic, it is preferable to driving around aimlessly, cluttering up moving traffic and en-| dangering pedestrians. Use Temporary Remedy. | 1f the rear axle is throwing grease on the right rear brake band, it is| permissible to tighten the band a lit tle 80 as to get better results from the particular brake and to keep it| equal to the other brakes as a means f preventing a skid. Where this sort of trouble develops the wheel should be taken off. a new washer placed in the housing, and the brake: band cleaned, but the temporary rem- edy should be resorted to in an emer- 1925—PART o B gency rather than take a chance on brake faflure. Saves Noisy Blunder. With. some cars you can shift out of “second” while the car is slowing down, while with the majority the gears will stick under such conditions. Better see what your car will do in this line and then learn that the rem. edy for sticking is to accelerate the motor before trying to shift out of a gear into neutral. It saves a nolsy blunder in driving. (Copyright, 1925.) BRAIN WORK NEEDED. Shorter Route to Motor Matter of Intelligence. More and more the remedying o eutomobile troubles is coming to be a think, ing seriously about a car trouble can matter of brainwork. Only by a motorist, or even the best mechanic arrive at a conclusion that will get a the source of trouble by est route, | one owner that the grating noise hd | heard came from a tight or poorly lubricated part of the clutch shaft, Trouble | 1, he was careful enough to observe | that the noise was heard only when f t| | joints revealed a the very short- | never been attended to | the rear end of the car was bouncing. | He recalled that the clutch shatt, like | the engine shaft, remains in a set position, regardless of road inequali- ties, and he knew that the same could not 'be said for the propeller snaft little A the universal e plug that had A “short col- investigation re: | lar extending from the front joint over A number of careless diagnosticians |a section of the propelley shaft wag in_motordom, for instance, had told | badly in need of grease ment of the clutch taking effect soon- | out uniformly to switch them from = - TR one wheel to the other after they Safety in Repair Work. | have been run a season or so? The || | right_front tire is always “climbing s is the time of year when the old | i1t of the diteh,” 8o to speak, with car is recelving hours of faithful at-$he Tesult that it receives a lttle tention, likewise the season when |ext"SCaat 'Tn changing the tires be || | many dmateur repairers come to grief | Sire to keep them roliing In the same | by, reason of thoughtless acts | airection. It injures the tread to re- [ {! It is customary to take a ride|Verse the direction of rolling. I around the block to see whether the | mpac the clutech on a new car is repairs have heen effective. Under |jjely to work a little more abruptly such conditions there is likely to be|than one on a car that has been entirely too much attention paid to the | roken in? The plates on the new ve clearly foretold it throu; | functioning of the car's units and not (ytch take hold so gently during " That was 1¥ | enough attention paid to pedestrians 8 ago, vet it IS NOW [and other vehicles. If the results of pted joke. It was a joke to|the work cannot be judged exce many progressive transporation inter- | through an actual test of the car ests in those days, too, but the average | running performance at least there person had to wait a long time before |should be t-vo persons in the car, one he discovered how much it costs to be | doing nothing but watching the road. | a conservative Climbing under a car that is jacked | An unofficial, but accurate, count of | up is one of the surest ways of court- | the cars passing a street intersection ger in repair work And i('.k‘\ where four street car lines met showed quite unnecessary. because if | when the way was clear the|the car owner does not have a con average automobile passed at a speed | venient place to work he is usually of not less than 28 miles an hour. not justified in tackling bearing work Many of the drivers were trying 1o go |or any other major operation per- faster, but thelr engines were not in | formed while under the car. £00d condition and would not respond | Whene rawling und 0 or more even when they ar | the best of condition. To this the 1ypical car owner reacts by sayin that a speed of 30 is good enough for | him, never realizing that 30 miles an hour a road speed for a modern car has already passed into the limbo | of the pa: In 1828 Ohio, in discussing the railroac clared, “If God designed that His s should travel at the fris eed of 15 miles an hour, he would An Invitation Sales & Berviee For This Evening We invite you to spend as much time as you can in our salesrooms this aiternoon. We would like to give vou a ride in a Nash. It is as good as it looks and it looks like a thoroughbred—doesn't it? THE MOST MARKED ADVANCE IN AUTOMOBILE ENGINEERING the first stages of clutching that the WILLARD SERVICE STATION Stanton Battery &. Electric Service L. 9309-J 403 C St. N.E. 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