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Show of varnish that is easy to put on and makes the car just as good as new. I don't care so much about the new looks, but I would like to get the car so that it looks respectable. F. Schulte. For a car In as bad shape as you say yours Is I do not believe that you can do much yourself. If you do not want to go to the expense of sending the car to a regular paint shop, why not put on a coat of the dull French gray, that looks well, resists wear and yet does not attempt the high polish' that is almost impossible for the amateur to attain. Any of the larger paint manufacturers can-virus dull gray finish and the whole job will cost only moderately. In using my hydrometer on my battery bat-tery I find that the cells differ in specific speci-fic gravity. The variation is not much, never more than a point, but it has got me worried. What do vou suppose is the matter? Al J. There is nothing the matter. A slight variation among the cells is not only coni-mon coni-mon but usual. Provided the variation does not go over two points vou need not worry. I have been using oil tn my engine, This lubricant Is darker than I like and a friend suggests that tt contains con-tains an excess of carbon. I have not noticed any tendency to excessive carbonization car-bonization and the lubricant seems to work all right, but I would like to have your opinion.- L. T. J. The make of oil mentioned in your inquiry in-quiry is absolutely first-class, "it does run a little darker than some of the others, but tho color is no indication of carbon. The only thing that will establish estab-lish that is the heat test and I happen to know that this particular oil has passed heat tests with unusual success. Could I ask you to further explain vour answer to the recent question of J K Dill, in which he asked If fitting a plate on lop of pistons would Increase com press'.on? You say that this will increase he power of the engine. I contend that there would be no Increase in either power or compression. This in not a criticism of your valuable department, but I simply sim-ply can't figure the matter out C n Wilson. ' Certainly, the plate will increase compression, com-pression, hecause it reduces the cOmnrea sion space. It does not matter whether yon drop the cylinder or increase the p.ston crown, the results are the same 1 do not recommend the use of plates tX. " le difficult to keep them firmly In Will you please answer the followm-queationa; followm-queationa; d) where can i got ," mobile guide for the whole it!,.. . States? Xh What van Tdo owbat can I get. to make the light on mv Ills model Ford car Stronger?!! darner Y ."" Wl" ',av! KO Vulde books whlcJJ. however, are Issued In volumes covering cert:Un sections: thus then- "vln he one volume for New Knu-land another for (he southern stales. ;l third for i J middle west. etc.. Also the American .( '-' omoblle association In Now york" A, '. Buea road maps at .. ,,' ,, Price, and these 'are verv uSSnl. f2?S you are using the magneto to fnrolJl current, the only Improvement I J think of is the InetallifioV TJnSS control. To gel more light. ?,?" more CUmnt and larger bulbs arid t, "o prater and baltery system Klvos n .V, the best results. va much CO Would you change Oa.rhnn.tn. a Ford oar. and. It mo. what o v ,,, "" ommend? CJ) What iV. 2S MH1 rec" .tarUna-IlghVn, aVatim"! with the present sy,om. &onbr j j f Owner's Service Department 1 f Will vou plOftfle toll me what state has the greatest number of automobiles registered reg-istered and what the number Is? H. O. Donaldson. New York state leads with 41S.O0O motor mo-tor vehicles. These figures were announced an-nounced '"or the first of the year and no supplementary statement has been given out. I have had an antifreeze solution In my car's water system all winter. Is there anything that I oujjht to do when I drain it out, as 1 intend to do in a day or so? Murphy. Yes; it Is a jrooil .plan to fill the cool-imr cool-imr aystoin with a solution of washing Bodfl and water. Uun the engine for say twenty minutes or half an hour find then drain out the soda solution and flush the cooling system several times with clear water. Would you advise mo to try and repaint re-paint my car, which Is three years old and Is In pretty toujih shape? A friend lells mo that 1 can Ret a patent system Kayiicld. Stewart and Schooler art id! good, (2) dray & Tnvls, Onemotor. North l-.nst. nro good svstoms Why hasn't tho four valve per oWiHS cmMue com In much faster? It H9mfl W me that with Its obvious advantage! thtr should be moro on the market dams. nS? iJ" 0,111 't'vbaek. nd then it l ;V , !, L ,,,4NlK" the water dvslein so uiat nu the valves are proporly pooled |