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Show Cutting Up-Keep Expenses Is Not a Difficult Problem Fuel Bill May Be Reduced by Proper Attention to Carburetor; Ignition Must Be Kept in First-class Condition. leaks. After the (-ai-bur. r properly adjusted to siiw. - mixture consonant willi the whole fuel system on; over from engine to t:: matter partially oktrur::. or lodged in the strain ,: fuel tank, helps to cut cieney of the whole sv;t: A rigid search for leak' : manifolds should be ins;.: Proper Fuel Mixture An actual physical I' ' fuel is only a little ire-leaks ire-leaks of various sorts. 1 inevitably means addi:. ; make good the deficient.' i-posits i-posits in the cylinders i' source of wasted power. And here is a place : ;' inal waste breeds fc-When fc-When the feci niitiR heavy carbon deposi's f the cylinders and tho--; ; power output almost s . progression. Therefore, gine free from carbon cleaned out periodically ; the good cause by z'-buretor z'-buretor adjustment in Good carburetion is !: the battle, but it is ni- ; tion must also be .. -be prodigious wastr.i;c '-batt.'rv '-batt.'rv must be M1'- the connections at t!ie i tion unit and the coil .. clean and tight ' ' spark in the combust'"5 Many cars will ficiciu-v on a mix'i"1' ;. ; of kerosene to fr.1',, line. If the engine I attachment pcrimtting' air from around tin;, n'; with tlv fuel vapor it -, similate this mixture gasoline, thus consumption of the n-"-: car owners adopted in-; add half a billion italic lo our antiuajjUH,, EVERY ear owner likes to keep his expenses as low as he reasonably can and it is really surprising to what a small figure the costs can be cut by consistent saving. This is as it should be, for motoring in America is distinctly a democratic sport and wo want to keep it so. Therefore any suggestions for keeping keep-ing down the expense bills are quire in keeping with what many call our national motoring ideals. In this article arti-cle the car owner is told how he may cut off something from his fuel bill. Let us begin by saying that the bills for gasoline and tires are the two big items in the outlay for keeping the car running. They are then the obvious ob-vious first points of attack in any attempt at-tempt to cut down expenses. Further, it is the duty of all car owners to make their fuel go as far as possible, because our supply of petroleum is barely enough for . our demands now. with still heavier consumption in prospoet. The first place to begiu the campaign cam-paign to cut down fuel consumption is at the carburetor. Here occur most of the leaks that increase fuel consumption. consump-tion. The average Airerican car owner drives with a mixture nearly twice as rich as necessary. In other words, almost al-most half the gasoline that he uses is wasted. The modern engin.? will run on a mixture mix-ture ranging from about H parts air to one of gasoline to one containing only eight parts of air to one of gas. But the engine will do its best work when tho mixture is made as lean as possible. possi-ble. While it burns the heavier mixture mix-ture it docs not operate with the snap and vim that is displayed on the leaner fuel. Carbon Deposits Cut Down. Practically all modern carburetors have an attachment for increasing and decreasing the amount of air injected into the mixture. It is a very simple matter to experiment with this adjustment, adjust-ment, first making the mixture as lean as possible and gradually turning back until exactly the right proportions of gas to air have been found for satisfactory satis-factory operation. In addition to the benefits of greater economy with the leaner mixture this condition also cuts down carbon deposits. It may seem to the individual car owner that it is a very small matter whether or not he uses too rich a mixture, mix-ture, but it is the aggregate of this wastage that counts. The individual's waste may be multiplied bv ncarlv fi.-000,000 fi.-000,000 to get the total amount of" motor mo-tor fuel that is practically thrown away, if all this potentially useful fuel were turned into actual service, instead of having our fuel supply an alarminglv tight fit for our needs we would have a handsome surplus to take care of the rapidly growing numbers of motor vehicles. ve-hicles. However, the carburetor is no; the end of the search for possible fuel |