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Show I OWNERS' SERVICE ! DEPARTMENT ! T understand that there is a lot of trouble in the Studebaker axles and I was thiii king of getting a St urtebaker small :;x when someone told me iey give a lot of that trouble. Do you know anything any-thing a'-'out it? Is it safe to buy a car the first y-2ar? W. B. Smith. I am not aware that the new Stude-hakers Stude-hakers have any such trouble. Jn fact. I am almost sure there is no such chronic complaint. You may have heard this a bout the old St ude bakers with the rear ax in gearset, but the new ones are of entirely en-tirely different design. . .... 2. That depends on the company putting put-ting out the car and the specific design of the car. Usually a new design is to be shunned uv.il the company has had time to take the "kinks" out, but a reputable repu-table concern takes t he "kinks" out before be-fore the car is marketed. Every owner I speak to has at some time or other trouble with carbon from oil in the combustion chamber, which also causes plug trouble and smoking. They say that new piston rings help only for a while and then the trouble comes back aj&tn. . What is. your remedy? B. T. Garfield. My remedy depends solely on the cause of the trouble. Jn many cases the' engine is-overfed with, oil..-In others, the oil Is too thin. In others, the cylinders are badly bad-ly worn out of shape or t!e pistons worn oval. New rings won't cure scored or oval cylinders. What is the usual point in piston travel for I he spark to occur when the break box is in retard position? J. S. Samuels. From to 1 inch after top dead center. |