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Show ! OWNERS' SERVICE 1 ' DEPARTMENT 1 have had a great deal of fuel trouMe and I have not hen aHc to find the cause. A niechanie looked oor ilie car-I'Uieiei. car-I'Uieiei. s;iid it was O. K. and the motor oven runs fine for him. When I get on the road the motor dies because it don't cot gas to tiie carbureter. Poos the va' iium tank ever give trouble? X. V. Z. Vacuum tank-; r:: rely pivo trouble, but even so. in your case I sit:-poet it . Tt is likely that the linkage from the tank :loat to the oontrohiiv- valves in the top i' the tank is not working riuht. cans-i cans-i lt the !':",it to stiek and not admit the ; u- io t he tank as it should. Also tiie tank float may have a small hole In it. if yo.i understand the vacuum tank, take off the top C'ver which removes the float mechanism also and examine the works, i Wh- does water in the gasoline start - a :i a fus, yet you can send water inio the air intake or into the cylinders and got better running".' Van I Hi.-e-n. Feca use the wa ter in t he fuel lm to T ass the nozzle in the car and being hard to lift the water temporarily stops fuel flow, and causes misfiring. When you feed water through the air intake into the cylinders you avoid tho nozzle. The uther ni- ht T drained the wa tci from t lie da ria tor a nd the next morn In i whan I st a rted uu forgot a ho-, it it and d rove a hi an live mis. I not ' ed 1 1 a : 'h-- em: i no was kn king and il sine! led bad from burning od, but I did not remember re-member about the wafr. Could I have ri Tie anv harm in running the five miles,' W. S. . Kroin yo'jr letter. T get It 1 1 at vr.u i in running at th.e end of five miles and t'ja t the od feed w;i5 opera ting su as to pre', en t piston seizing. I'nder the eii ciim-tanees. don't be.de e yon did a great df-W of 1 arm, i':m,-h it may he assumed as-sumed that the rreire heat piohnhly warped the alves shg'tit'v arnl jossihly caused f xe.s-ive wear of the pivtons. Th.c actual daniaire, of coin -p. cannot. bo determined de-termined v. i thou I (IN man t hng the ei.gine. 1 have a rr,nrn-f to buy a t reeled car Til a TV h'W pr i e. but I am a f ra wl Vie. rau-e tno j.ri-e N nii' nin,!.,iy U) . It fs a popular n.ake. lnjt .-,i-t - sma.-l.ed. Tl:e ni-ior an-i d;i"e s-'-tis all r.ghi. 1 jou advise me to t.ike if; ",roer. The fnubl with bning a wrr-k is that after it is fixed up It i.-er shu.m like l v sam ear. Vmi !o not men 1 1- 'ti t r.e ntake nor the tt- e ou yhl ha. e i. pay for it , At any rat e on must be ca r e-fid e-fid In buying a v.-reck-. First d.-t'-rmme what parLs are injured beyond repair, then find out If v.hi en n L.-'t the parts from the uvih.er. liven parts for nrae ponulr make Hie now hard to t. Find nut v.'hat the new parts w Ml c t. Then rig;;rc Oc c of repairing th.e other liaits. Fsurthv tin means iabnj- -l-aie f.-r st ra i-L. h t eni n c tiie pout, axle, (eiders. e. Vou mn.-t be eertain tiiat the cP;t.!i. ;:earset, rear alc, .t'-.. have not l.th thiowri tornph'tel'. out of nltouitn-nt. ne--ef-sil at ;ng a d inrna nt liiiij of I he whole i.'iiH.-M1. |