Evening Star Newspaper, October 25, 1925, Page 67

" NOVICES WARNED 10 AVOID BLUNGER TTearing Down and Reassem- bling Machine Regarded as Work for Experts. Any one who would tear down and &ttempt to reassemble a machine composed of parts finished to sizes @s exact as those forming an auto- moblle engine, despite his lack of knowledge of the elementary prin ciples of mechanical engineering, is severely censured by Robert C. Wane of the Natic grinders and Rebuilders As: An attempt to rebulld au: engines without micrometer ex perience and equipment horders on Ccriminality, asserts Mr. McWane in an article in the Journal of the So- clety of Automotive Engineers. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. THE SUNDAY MOTORIST An Abridged Magazine for Car Owners EDITED BY WILLIAM ULLMAN Pity the poor fellow who owns three cars with a total of eighteen cylinders and a piston slap in seventeen of ‘em! Motor Misinformation. Judging from the amount of wild and totally unreliable information passed out, it would seem there Is more misinformation afloat in motor- dom than in any other phase of dally life. Such misinformation becomes particularly extensive and particularly perniclous when it involves the wel- fare of the varfous car makers. For some reason the public likes to say that such-and-such @ car is not sell- ing well or that it is sweeping the country, and the public says it with | enthusiasm when it does not know the first thing about national car sales. Recent registration figures shed some light on the truth larger jet may be the answer. Looks Are Deceiving. to tighten the they are mnot loose. The is in the king pins. ends of the axles would move when being shaken. Caring for C;r Finish. One of the commonest mistakes in going over a car for the purpose of | against the lying speedometer. If putting it in the pink of condition is| you think one car performs so much tront wheels when | better than another, insist upon a test wheels when the looseness is felt. lll the wheels were reallv loose on the axles, the wheels, and not the axles, ometers are accurate enough instru- ments when properly adjusted, and tampering with them should not be tolerated. In all fairness to automo- bile dealers and manutacturers, how- ever, it should be stated that one or two types of speedometers, once generally used, are now being replaced by better instruments. This means that much of the inaccuracy of speed- ometers in use is no fault of those high-speed jet for the moment. A |Who sold the cars. Dealers who han- dle cars with truthful speedometers are facing some serious competition with those whose cars attain high speed with remarkable ease. They hould be encouraged In their fight motorist | of the speedometers. shakes the wheels and decides that because they seem loose they need to be drawn up tighter on their axles. He does not realize that the looseness He could decide this point easily by noting that the funct used the friction drive type of move with the | transmission? What's the Answer? 1.—What is torque? 2.—What makes of cars now de- 3.—What {s the purpose of a “clutch brake 4.—Why will not an excessively ad- vanced spark overcome the tendency of low grade fuels to burn slowly? 5.—If spark and valves are timed for faster travel, will the car run as Now and again it Is valuable to have | oW1y in high gear as it did before C., OCTOBER _25, (Think these over during the week and look for the answers next Sunday in this department. You may be ‘wrong!) H (Copyright. 1925.) MOTOR CARS FLOODED PARKS WITH TOURISTS Rocky Mountain Reserve Visited by 32,648 Autos of Vacationists. Motor cars scored over trains for the number of vacationists carried into Rocky Mountain National Park in the Colorado Rockles this year. Visitors who went to the park by automobile increased 37 per cent in number over last year There were 32,648 individual cars, carrying 118,747 sightseers. The total last year was 24,670 cars and 88,2 persons. Thé same increase was shown in Overland Park municipal camp ground in Denver, where motor- ists rolled up an attendance of 49,164 from all sections of the countr: S compared with 45,034, according to the Denver tourist bureau. James G. McElhinney, an appointee of the mayor, believed to be the fiyst official camp chaplain, is on duty at | | The Rev. | 1925—PART 3. NASH A Thoroughbred! b o1 Sired by Speed and born of Endurance— A combination which pro- duces a winner every time demonstrate that every car has its 4 Cettiona of popularity and its sections | the viewpoint of some one who is ex- of unpopularity as well. Reglstrations | perienced in a_particular line. The o enr generally - regarded as one | other day an experienced car painter was usked about preserving the finish been given to the problem of recon- on antomobiles, and this is what he ditioning such engines when this be- | Sea : anpniimptiles O Y o e ety reas In Culifornia| “Eventually the use of polish on a mot the only condition with which | < were added |painted automobile will do more harm we have to deal in an_automobile | same month. | than good. All polishes contain oil, | s s b g S 31| In Titinot utsold a number \ enemy of paint. Clean | spular s in July, due _is best for the finish on the rected, it cannot properly be sald | fo u strons CRICAES FEPTRCTHINE | that vou get at a Farage.” that the engine has been recondi- | 404 e e e i ihavtine Sloned Aty operation St Ino8) re is a well known car on the | condition of the door of a car which than the Zing, orirehn g et which - motorists believe | had mnot been polished and to the; worn cylinders should not | it of recent body | checked hood which had been polish- ! iEnized s encine xelln 81 e X ite, there is much | sively. This painter, how- “Regrinding of the cylinders should - 1 s bl A be done with the utmost care. The | FEER (0 BF CTEC ruth of the mat. | ideal conditions. He made no provi- eondilion of each cylinder shenld feo S that in several States it is out. | Sion for rubbing out those pecultar | fiscertained and the one showing the : I8 Ba i e e t wear should be ground first. | S65 B CTF 8 FIC ket, in spite of the | on the hood and cowl. Nor did he! determines the size to which the | & T8 O8G0 MO CFy Jken its own | consider the fact that the finish on | other cylinders are to be ground, all} cyo, foo, qq a_lurge majority of cars goes bad| of one ‘block or set of blocks being S5 FLCN Sl o Jpout sales are sur-|simply because it becomes too dry. prising. A car mot kmown to one| Wise car owners will probably take motorist out of a hundred—a brand-|a Up from this and follow @ hall P _%50ld 167 in July in Wiscon.| Way course, polishing the car when thousandin of an inch taper. Pistons | TeW ene-isold 13 18 JUR I e | & Dolish would seem ‘to be necessary should be fitted with a clearance Of | g, he ‘State another new car exten-|and keeping polish off when clean Reventy-five | one hunired thousandths | Same State snother now ear exien | vl SR %TGL wauld seem to b {o one onethousandth of an inchi bE! facts are often very much at vari-| the answer. ek o e M rccavstely iIn the|ance with the rumers. however In- Erooves, and the best practice seems | teresting the latter may be. Yo call for a clearance of not less! -— Full balloon tire, semi-balloons or | than ths of an inch | Roads for the Future. low PX';S»\\Y'I‘ cords? Which shall iti ser inch of diameter | 2 be? The Rubber Association of Am- . i - {SAuusnucementibySticihishiss erica has decided to help Theet nm} iives Secret of Success. | partment of Connecticut that i et i b i | ‘Allznment is the secret of success [ build a_36-foot concrete highway be- | TIHCR FUBTET, Sbation by W UAE ths and must be complete with all parts | tween New Haven and New York has | nitteh, B8 (Wpes OF 1res, PrOGuCit of the engine. i e cvlin: | brought forth considerable favorable | FYPSS that are tn small demand Wil ite | comment since this is regarded as one | & ) o, 0 FGe A RIS ‘_‘ b and perfect parallelism of the | in anticipation of increased travel | o6 MY Decome Prot/ bRIve dn, br ft with the same line. Con-|rather than as a sole accommodation | v condant, Je e scon: Tecting.rod pins must be parallel with | for existing travel. During a Yale| ' Fiany angl o 1o Connecting-rod | athletic event the Boston Post road Ivice & tre and square and | showed a maximum hourly traffic ot oot likely pins llel with the|1,393 vehicles. This exceeds the traffic Vo vIng “"‘ ox connecting pins and | on the famous White Horse Pike be-| s oeres square with the sides of the pis- | tween Philadelphia and Atlantic City, uyers will have If there is lack of alignment or | where maximum hourly traffic has Bl ss 1y of these points, | reached 1,008 vehicles. | frouble will soon develop and the life | Apparently it is recognized by the of the engine will be appreciably short- { Connecticut highway department that ened the famous Boston Post route needs “It is useless to attempt to com-| more than a highway that will accom- pensate at one point for error at| modate with ease the maximum U‘A\'Q” another. All of these points must be | now experienced during the Yale Bowl | given the very closest attention if | events and that the hichway built to- trouble is to be avoided.” day to serve the future must be de- = ESRRSS signed In anticipation of traffic reach- RUSH JOBS COSTLY. ing an hourly maximum of 5,000 ve Valve Reconditioning Neglected. His discussion follows: “Too little engineering attention has miles of service and, u ground to uniform size within limits of five ten-thousandths of an inch plus or minus, with not more than one one- Service Comes First. an excess of ser something to s Lying Speedometers. Numerous compl: s are h | garding the inaccuracy of speedom- eters on a large number of cars, and it is believed by many that thou of car owners do not know that ling at the speeds The complaints E “stepping: up” of speedometers so that they record more speed than the automobile is actually s = rd re- hicles. This would be greatly in ex. cess of the traffic on Michigan ave- S nue, Chicago, which s now the busiest Grinding Must Be Done |street in America, 56,000 vehicles pa: ing in 24 hours. The engineering executive of the m | thing has been a | ng in disguse, but the nract owneyr ired of it. Deliberately. Many motorists are heginning to| State of Pennsylvania has warned sce that they are paying the penalty | against the danger of building new = B T oy e D versrinding jobs, | Foads to meet only present maximum Glassmobile Enclosures In former vs when an owner got traffic requirements, since new roads s forn) e 50! | attract new trafc, but apparently Hiscant b a Job it was| Sonnecticut will take the lead in build. | | fOr Cars 1oisy because the 2 % ing the first long stretch of genuinely | 10 let the valve Aol et down into their | $ 2 00 Worth Locking Into. | 6 fiamdhed] ite system op- | Motorists who complain of what is| Then the owr the tapi to his disadvantage in that he | known as the “dead spot” in car.|] Complete and installed. Al ts a complete job all in one day. | buretor adjustment and who have | Gf#\amobile enclosures for ull mukes ine quiet the minute | tried every possible adjustment should | 4 A it. Nothing, however, has al- | conslder the possible advantage of (] e e st cituadon. 1t wouid be | vame o arger. nignepecd st wnen || ROBEY’S GARAGE better to break up the job and run|an engine goes from the low-speed | 3 & few miles with the valves loose. | jet to the high there is likelihood that | 1018 Irving St. NW. would mean | suction will be insufficient for draw- ‘ Col. 10266 th inz a rich enough mixture from the PLAINAS ts for a few davs. back to have d silenced the change was made? You get a Hupmobile Eight for about $2000. It has all the long life— the superfine performance— the utter dependability— the comfort— the delightful ease of control— of cars that cost around $4000. It’s clear as daylight that you are making 100 per- cent better investment when you buy the Hup- mobile Eight. ’ Drive the Hupmobile Eight and you will quickly * learn that it classes with far higher-priced cars. We give you the word of Hupmobile for it, that it is as finely built, as reliable, as durable, as a car can be built. Come in—and go for a drive, with you behind the wheel. New Lower Prices—Hydraulic Four-Wheel Brakes—Balloon Tires Delivered Equipped, Including Spare Tire, Bumpers, etc., Washington, D. C. Sedan .. . .Now $2,395 Touring Car Now $1,985 Coupe (Z and 4 pass.)....Now $2,245 Roadster ... Now $1,985 Dickey Seat Roadster...Now $2,! Prices Delivered, Including Tax STERRETT & FLEMING, Inc. Home of the Certified Gold Seal Used Cars = Champlain St. at Kalorama Road Columbia 5050 IF Note: New Showroom, Connecticut Ave. at S St. HUPMOBILE EIGHT Washington, D. C. and Your Name or + Initials on the Radiator of Your Car A new and distinctive automobile sign, beautifully done in highly polished eighth-inch aluminum, fourteen inches in Very decorative and easily attached to any radiator length. in a few minutes. $2.50 With Engraving Main 5852 the Denver tourist camp. “Bringing Home—a Winner” vance Sixes. Sales 1423-25-27 L St. N.W. Main 7228 AUTOMOBILE SIGN CO. 1704 F St. N.W. “If other cars required as little attention, as few adjust- ments, as the Willys-Knight —zthe repair shops of this country would have to close their doors tomorrow!”’ . . . —direct from the owner of the busiest repair shop in one of our largest cities comes that state- ment. .. ““Fully 50% of our time is spent in grinding vakves and cleamng out carbon’’, says another service station manager . . . In those two significant remarks, from ex- perience-headquarters, you have the answer to the expensive and annoying cost-of-up- keep problem that perpetually perplexes so many car owners. And, in the same breath, you have the reason for the unsversal satis- Jaction of Willys-Knight owners, today in their hundreds of thousands! . . . “An'Engine Yow’ll Never Wear Out” the patented Knight slecve-valve engine . . . in this lies the secret of Willys-Knight emancipation from engine-repairs, its free- dom from the need for constant adjustment. This unique engine-principle means unin- terrupted service, yearin, year out. It means longer life for your car—immeasurably, in- finitely longer. It means a sweeter, quieter, Soercylinder TOURING $1195 $1398 $1395 $1450 $1595 COUPE - COUPE- SEDAN SEDAN BROUGHAM AR pricns £. 0. b. Tolodo These are only two of those features which are characteris- tic of the 1926 Special and Ad- “Bring Home 3 Winner” R. McREYNOLDS & SON Service Sixty Years of Satisfactory Service” 14th and Park Road N.W. Leon S. Hurley, Mgr. Col. 2619 “The Country Has Gone NASH” more efficient motor-mechanism up o and beyond 100,000 miles than you enjoyed on the day you bought it! . .. No Carbon Troubles No Valves to Grind . . . your Willys-Knight is absolutely im- mune from engine-complications and en- gine-disorders caused by carbon accumula- tion. “‘It’sall the better for a bit of carbon’’ —any expert mechanic will tell you that. Carbon cannot harm your Willys-Knight, or cause knocks or noise, or put your car out of commission for hours and days. If 55 an mgir_mn}:i Jact that carbon serves actually to facilitate this engine’s functioning! . . . No valves to grind—no tappets, no s?r{n 5 no rocker arm bushings to get out of order w. or replace. The Knight sleeve- valve idea gets rid of all of them. No eternal pounding of metal upon metal—all parts of this sleeve-valve engine slide and rotate—hence no chattering of parts, no wear and tear . . . . . . where all other engines /ase in power, /ose in endurance, and cost more to run as their milea; Frows—thc engine of your Wil- ys-Knightactually improves with use. It develops more horse- power, becomes sweeter and quicter, and costs less to run the more mileage you pile up on itl A Car of Rare Beauty—Rare Distinction And your Willys-Knight is as beautiful an automobile as yon have ever cast your eyes upon. “‘In lineand form the most graceful I have ever seen,”” a famous artist says. Its appointments as rich, its equipment as com- plete as you will find in any car, regardless of its price . . . See the smart Coupe-Sedan here shown. A car you will delight to drive. A car in which you will take vast pride in owning. Come, see this superb automobile. Familiarize yourself with the facts about its magnificent performance record. Consider the substantially reduced prices. Deferred pay- ments. A small amount down. Your own convenience—52 weeks or more for balance. Your present car to apply as part payment. sin<ylinder TOURING - anv $1750 ROADSTER - $1750 COUPE - - $2195 COUPE- SEDAN $2095 2295 SEDAN - - BROUGHAM $2095 LUl prices 1. 0. b. Tolods You are invited to inspect a special showing of all Willys-Knight Enclosed Models at our various salesrooms this week WARDMAN-JUSTICE MOTORS, Inc. 1108 Vermont Ave. N.W. 1111 14th St: N.W. Main 4340 wIlLLY S - O VERTLAND Fo 1 Used Car Salesrooms Service Station 1108 Vermont Ave. N.W. N _ E M OT O'R 1515 14th St. N.W. 1711 14th St. N.W. Main 7864 C AR 8