Evening Star Newspaper, March 28, 1926, Page 65

ENGINES REQUIRE VERY LITTLE OIL Overlubrication and Dilution Called Allied and Avoid- able Evils. The evils of overlubrication of the 1 dilu over mbustion er the oil only by internal ine tion of supply can be come such smail quant exce: sible supplyin to ‘the ion will ies of oil engine that ive Iu be and by solution red at the Society of Au Detroit by T. 1 ison-Kipp_ Corpors ince the real bricant is to sep faces effec wic usir these in inpos- ¢ tresh oil. This probiems was of ual meeting of the motive Engineers in Goleman Of the Mad ion purpose of the lu the hearing sur- vely, it is proper to feed nly the quontity ef ofl required for that purpose,” said Mr have determined that a 41 needs only rops o minute when operatin 1 load at 1,500 rovolutions per If the proper mechanism used to feed oil (o the pistons in such surplus will very 1kpin of a four-cyline under full s per minute ve drops of it Coleman inch fresh oil | ier min is te. rsepowe load at | require fresh oil | operatin: revolutic gine 1.000 not mi per system, the oil cylinder at a the first bridge wall it the down dead-center ton and an oil lead | to each main thrown to the | slizht groove tooled into the ecylinder at the point | oil injection, and the piston, 4vhen | its down des position, ands with its fir wall just obposite this groove. experience has proved that five oil impulses per 1,000 engine revolutions are sufficient | for good cylinder lubrication.” This method of ofling not on plies fresh oil directly to the e walls as soon as the el tarted, | thereby avoiding delayed lubricatior in cold weather starting, but pre vents carbonization and engine knocks | due to excessive oiling, increases the | engine power, reduces fuel and oil | consumption and prevents dilution of the oil by unburned fuel, it was | sald. Tests made with four ent | 1zines showed an average inc of 17 per cent in power with the fre oil system over the conventional sys- ems and an average reduction of 1.20 of a pound of fuel consumed per brake hofsepower per hour, equiva lent to a reduction of 6 per cent in fuel consumption. | NEVER RUS;-I INTO MUD. I P e | Useful Rule in Automobile Driv- ing Is Cited. most useful to rush into mud. merely throws the forward and lowers at the rear wheels spin. If it become: rushing, assuming that all other plans fail, the sensible course is to dfive the car backward | into the difficult situation. Weight is then thrown upon the rear wheels and traction is Increased. 18 injected ir noint opposite of the piston ion of the pi the lubricant . whence it erankpin bea | | One of rules in arivin Such a process weight of the the tractive factor using them to necessary to tr Advises Two Kinds Car Polish. Every motorist should use two different kinds of polish on his ca There should be the kind that requir hard work but which produces more permanent results. Then there should T the kind he can rub on in a hurry | ws a protection to the paint In wet weather. |Rain Drops Dr On Surface of Car Gives Useful Hint If one kas not had time to dry off the car with a chamois some evening when coming in out of the wet, the situation presents an op- portunity. The following morning will reveal what parts of the suffer most when water to remain and dry overn will be found that the greatest damage occurs where drops of water remain stationary until they dry, as on the hood, windowsills, cowl ard decik. Often the doors and fenders will dry off with only a ht duilness to tell of the drench of the night before. This in spection may be the opportunity 0 learn what can be neglected in case there is not time to go over all the car. 'MANY ACCESSORIES ARE NEEDED ABROAD in 21 Foreign Nations. American-made popular The ates automobile ace foreign of sor are in many latest report Department of count United ng |ABSENT-MINDEDNESS e | American Products Find Markets | 'iqn Is not conducive o | clusions themselv the | Com- | i lealing with the subject reveals | countries are American devices that motoring more safe and he results show the |order of demand for each a Spot-lights and motometer ountries; rear-view mirrors, 12; wind- hield wipers, 4; bumpers, 11; spare tires, 10; re wheels, gasoline gauges, shock absorber 3. The| (an\\hv: ories were each in de- mand in one countr; ide lights, | clocks, inspection lamps, stop light trunks, smoking and vanity Kits, | power 'ti , and rear baggage racks. Several drastic differences from the an market are revealed in this as for instance the prevalence of onen cars in many ceuntries. In the { Brazil only 5 per cent are closed cars. In Argen- tina the ires two side lights. As a rule, ignition is more popular in and battery ig- of 20 convenient following CeSSOTY in i3 magnet Europe, | nition in South America. WHEN"AIR IS CLEANER. Directions Given to Supply Car With Pure Breathing. An automobile engine breathes cleaner air when it is idling. This is because air is being drawn through the narrower passages of the carbure- tor and the throttle itself acts as a baffle plate to deflect any stray par ticles of dirt. For the motorist with an eve to efficiency, therefor suggests a plan. Whenever p through a cloud of dust he will member to take his foot off the accel- | erator and declutch. The engine then idles and acts, to a certain extent, as its own air cleaner. “NEW” TROUBLE LIKELY. Possible Result of Extensive Re- pairs to Remedy One Fault. In considering the advisability of making extensive repairs in order to remedy one particular trouble always figure on the amount of new trouble that may be occasioned by the “‘opern- tion.” One care owner recently had the camshaft removed and when the job was completed he found that he had acquired a set of noisy timing gears that was thrown slightly out of line by the change. What Car Do Yoz Drive? WHY NOT OWN A LOCOMOBILE? WHEN outstanding superiority and a great name with an aristocratic association, costs no more than mediocrity then the proper action i | tested * | sul $2,465 Delivered in Washington Liberal Terms Extended seems clearly defined. Quantity production methods now make it possible for a greater num- ber of persons to own and drive a car of Locomobile standards. The Locomobile Company Salesroom 1517 Connecticut Avenue North 962 THEBEST BUILT CAR | demonstrated | ——must be kept up to the prescribed THE SUNDAY CAUSE OF MISHAPS Motorists’ Minds Too Often Are on 1‘ Business or Family | Problems, | Many | motorists have difficulty finding room for thoughts of safety | because they v their domestic | |and business troubles with them, in | the opinion of Ernest mith, gen- eral manager of the American Auto- | | mol.le Association. | he A. A. A studying_the fin an effort to dis is so much apparent careles The preoccupation of the motor mind is one of the principal features thus far disclosed by the investiga- ti has been their _busines with them.” | ¢ and the result there fittle room for thoughts of safety. The housewife does too_much shopping while at the wheel. The business man puts over too many deals while he is dodging |, | pedestrians. Altogether , the situa- safety.” Smith reached his con- interesting as the con- Members of the safety and aceid vention com- | mittee of the or ion were com- missioned to accept offers to ride | with motorists and to endeavor to discover what the drivers were think- g about. Almost invariably vunch «d into a_conversation their respective interests. assumption was that if there had been no one in the car to talk these matters over with, the drivers would have discussed the matter with themselves, mentally ¥ “Only mall pe ilked a trians, safety u report submitted. on matters quite task at hand, and that the drivers wer | indavertentiy;casele SAYS BALLOON TIRES DEVELOP NEW IDEAS| | Discussion Brings Conclusions, Writer Asserts, That May Be Set Down as ‘“‘Certainties.” Motorists | and domestic | declures Mr. How Mr clusions is a Thoughts were unrelated to the |t inclined to be | ¢ Out of the discussions of balloon tires a few conclusions can now be | set down as certainties. It has been that a semi-balloon | type—or a balloon with six-ply walls | pressure just as in the case of a full | balloon, but for a different reason The six-ply tire will generate heat ! through friction, which tends to break down the walls if under- | inflated. The walls of the full balloon, on th other hand, will stand for under- inflation, since they are more nearly like a flexible rubber ball, but in this condition the rim will cut through the tire. This may show the same re- s if the walls themselves were | injured through excessive flexing. NEW TEST IN CAR BUYING. Rap Fenders and Lamps of Machine Being Considered. Here is a new test in car buying. ‘When all other points have been con- sidered it {s a good plan to rap the fenders and lamps of the car under consideration. The results are sur- prising. Some fenders are tinny while others sound heavy and durable. same with lamps, though they may 100k to be the same from appearances. A buyer would be no more justified in selecting his car on this basis alone than to choose a car primarily because | it is a little more generous in wheel base. But the “rapping test” has its place, and Is often an eye-opener. Service Station 1123 18th St. N.W Main 8029 IN AMERICA | showdown in stopping ability. | four-wheel br heh 14 rists | pea why e | ca talk of the “double standard of stop- four standard ping { four-wheel brakes. since treme the | in New that length hour, within 148 inches against 154 feet, | speed for the conventional four-wheel | e of drivers | ha n within six feet while traveling at 40 and says | miles an hour. observers poted | ¢; traveling an hour. enced drivers believe choose the s: in traffic. could stop if necessar: the simplest ways of keeping it from prudent motorists have found. around the vital parts of the power plant’s mechanism is bound to show up anything that is in fair way 0, 1926—PART lAUTO CLUB PREPARES |Windshield Wiper " DATA FOR TOURISTS | May Cause Damage ; If Glass Is Dirty Southern Cnlifomin Association | Gets Up Information on Na- tional 01d Trails. ofl will collect around the spark plug — of the particular nder. Also if i Fto litHe' Diugn dreckept o Motorists contemplating a cross tively simple to note the on: country tour this Summer will be | show evidence of ofl pumping | aided by,data prepared by the Auto-| | e mobile fub of Southern California on Motorists are beginning to oil up| As They Might Sa: W, the national old trails from Los their brakes in anticipation of the bl y No Angeles to New York City. Accord- When | Where safety is painful we are slow | ing to the officials taking part In the kes first made their ap- | 10 be safe.—Ovid. preparation of this data, the present | Trust that motorist in nothing who glare there will be. nce on the: standard makes -of ! | survey may be considered fairly typi 3 b wrs in this country there was much | has not a conscience in everything.— | cal of long-distance touring experi- | ORGANIZE NEw UN"’ § Sterne. | ences | As a driver is, so he sees.—William | The report shows that in traveling | | Blake! | the 3,156 miles from the Atlantic to | Unless you are ashamed of yourself | the Pacifi st, the motorist will now and again you're not an honest nearly half on pavement driver.—Through the Meshe: { This will include brick, oil and maca The true tree which moves some |dam, and will total 1,450 miles of the | to tears of joy is, in the eyes of other | trip. ¢ ads total 1,007 | drivers only en thing standing | while dirt surface roads, including in the William Blake. | some sanded, total 729 miles. The highest mountain to be crossed on the National Old Trails is Raton Pass, on the Colorado-New Mexico line, an elevation of 7,888 Teet. Other | | high points onsthe trail include the STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MARCH 28, THE SUNDAY MOTORIST An Abridged Magazine for Car Owners. EDITED BY WILLIAM ULLMA Before using the automatic wind- | shield wiper be sure that the glass | n and not a smudge of dust | er. The windshield is very | ratched not | ke @ al of dif. but just let with_scratches note they diffuse the rays of an approaching car’s headlights when vou are driving at night. The tlearer the windshield the There would be fewer traflic delays re people could drive th ' xpertly as they think they can. how Triple Braking Standard. 151 to the eff operati to 1 of uton | a suitable oil pur | ing to three speakers a of the Ind 1 v of Auton dianaj After m cts of the pres oil of the unbur | the motor fuel. of the | from combustion, of and particles of metal | ner said thet whe ends and the water | oil the cranke | cient body to av { the solid” matter. ti IN AUTO INDUSTRY |- but the situation has been slow With so large a per- rying brakes on all the “double rapidly taking to complicate rd” is also situation definite form. Further ters a “‘triple standa eloping. There is wide variation in the stop- ability of different system of Already one man ufacturer who does not provide front and rear braking of equal intensity is finding himself at a disadvantage, the arrangement encourages | locking of the rear wheels, sliding and inefficient stopping. At the other e there is a Parisian produc which, it is claimed, can be made fo | stop In a remarkable fashion. | One driver of this high-pow Yor is ready to wager can stop it within its own while traveling 50 miles an| This would mean stopping | the | this Production Division Created to Be Composed of Men Who Pri- marily Are Experts. No-wheel Brakes Now. | Something new may along in the brake line. has had two-wheel brake wheel brakes. Now there is in favor of no-wheel brakes. “Stop- | pers” may be taken off the wheels altogether: | This would result in fur greater sim- g plicity and better control, but the ar- | \peel bhrakes. angement probably awaits the gen- | g or®in" i dista eral adoption of the four-wheel drive | S\wh {0 ccdomete enger car. The advantage of four- | gy cVTICETRCCIR S0N Sod heel brukes at present fs the equal | {\yjling a friend at night. He hap: tion of braking control, which is|1cned to be driving with the instru not possible if brakes are taken off the | ment board light out and the friend | | wheels of a rear-wheel drive car. | ahead happened to be hitting a real | tive component parts, units and ma- | ODer Interest been revived In the no- | 30 When the first car stopped, the | st o bbbt o e wheel fdea as a result of rumors that | y,yn hehind was forced to engage in | clude the aeronautic, automobile, mo. | one of the new cars does not coast as | some acrobatic stunts to match the | gor conch and mmotor track, tractor freely as it§ cotemporaries, though |giopping ability _of the car aheaa nd stationary, including those for|Co., emplc . 3 SR | offering other advantages, including A bt DL & ihose for]the exhaus It is possible that the car in ques-|greater safety. In other words, the s isolated electric lighting plants, motor | the exhajst 1 Ring Lardner’s character whq “ain' | diVision: VERY freauanty (OrEa | pitched a shoe in well nigh on to 40 ta e £000 Eperdunn lJulhfl‘\\';l,h.\\m,, control is thou rs with the best of braking systems v to the seat of: the car's | 3n ivarmitttont i ting. closer to th tiotath it zed unc » di 15 to handle spe-|4n intermitten | years” has only N igh o e | cific projects, particularly the more |heat unit aerat ist who hasn’t had a skid in well nigh an stop within their own length when | oo important ones, and in so cases to |1 filte 1 to 10, at anything over 15 miles co-operate with similar committees | ¢a in for their share of the blame for the | ThE fact that the story of the driver | °f SICH TRATEL Y large number of accidents. It is point. | aquestion has never been unani-| U bointed either ed out, for instance, that if a speed. | DOUSIY believed has yet to prevent him | Lo o abintly to handle ometer is slow, the driver is apt to be | [Yom sticking to it. He thus describes fee 6 e ik subiee driving faster than he in poiia | HHS SERLRGIEE oo Comme. Withits the: clée taxing the capacity of his brakes. Brake lightly visions. Their report The “stepped up” speedometer pre- | BA&ed eventually passed upc sents further difficulties. In one case ards committee a driver did not use his brakes at all breeding a lot of unnecessary trouble, | in an emergency, preferring to engage | 1. Ts A trip|in some wild steering because he | epring { thought he was traveling too fast to | when | stop in time to avoid a smash-up. At | spring ends? to give | the time his speedometer told him he | 2. What is the coolest point of the loose spark | was traveling 10 miles an hour, but | radiator” Wires|a more truthful instrament would Must that are wearing down to a short [have rated the speed : 2 | same for all sixes? at mig circuit, the oil leaks and the rest of 80 many pmwlm.u-m-u are 4. Wi has the two-cycle engine bie is sure the troubles that are warning of ! up,” the brak a number | failed to make headway in the design |new troubles after real breakdowns. It is difficult to e not anywh s effec- | of the modern « or which he is looking tell which of six cylinders is| as owners imagine them to be.| 5. What is a “clover leaf” body? | be putting his finger on t pumping a little ol when the top |Many persons, for instance, think they | (Think these over during the week |lar annoyance of the moment, but he of the englne is caked with grease |can bring their cars to stop in 98.7 |and look for the answers in this de- | is warding off a lot of future trouble and dirt, but quite a simple matter|feet when running 40 miles an hour, | partment next Sunday. Yeu may be |It always helps the whole to be when the top is kept clean. A little | which is a healthy normal for four: ' wrong.) ! looking for n tro 65,000 owners ‘acclaim this be coming Motordom then four- gitation of a production di Establishment vision to accomplish for the produc Grand Canyon in Arlzona, 7.150 feet, | tion interests in the automotive in nd Cajon Pass, Calif., 4,250 feet. The | qustry what the standards committee | opportunity for zhest altitude in the Iast is Cum-| has done for the engineer roups | the formation of berland Summit, in Maryland for many veurs \nounced by the | metal p is ociety of Automotive Engineers. The | The device \ew division will be composed of men |are obtained co who are primarily production experts, | receives the d nd the work will relate to produc- | the lower piston ri lllrn equipment and methods to properl exul; e standards committee drives off the h sts of about members, grouped | Water and returng the divisions classified according | the cranke The of vehicle and major automo. | purifier i n The truth is, they can | e only when their he v 80 this while con werage stopping distance at ms tof halt rake ve brought equipped car. He cl his machine to device . Coulombe of are Speedometers to Blame. The time has come, many experi- [ Inaccurate speedomete! are coming | when one has to afe makes of cars to trail Many also check up now they iting committees | W the temporarily or|P¥ passage of the Specific sub. | asbestos eloth filter as may not | taminants g fications of di-|able appli as a rule, are, the engine. s iana. | tion by a ) llons per e crankcase and again to see how quickly n of ex The oil pumy hour an by a . with the clutch en Cleanliness Cheaper. Keeping an engine clean is one of What's the Answer? to speak of the the spring bolts the lubrication of Even Failure Rewarded. It may be aggravating vain for a squeak or a rat is the by-product of on consider e owner w the firing order be the and tigh 4 it proper shackles or referring to to search ir but there s efforts to o lubricates on the ¢ £ the teo against reveals the the ignition trouble. Tt o plug connection, be the ¢ of insuring Conveniently on 1333-37 14th St. grwty balanced motor SIX SEDAN 935 £ e b. 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