Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-11-10 | Page 48 | Owners' Service Department

T OWNERS' SERVICE f DEPARTMENT -t f T am a school supervisor with a number num-ber of country schools under my charge. I want to buy a car to use in vialting my schools, and I would like to ask you what make would be best for my purpose and whether a second-hand car would be satisfactory? sat-isfactory? Blanche N. Almost any light car of standard make now on the market should serve your purpose. Be sure and get om equip pel with a self-starter in good order. If you buv a second-hand care from a reputable dealer, who will guarantee its reasonable pjerformartce, there is no good reason why tt uliniil,-! tint ntoive ah ttcfmMnrv After T shift into high with ray car it takes a minute or more before the car picks up when I step on the accelerator. This is so on second or on first. I haven't been able to dope out the reason for It. Can you help me? John Graham. Thc trouble lies in the clutch, which Is slipping. The facing is probably worn or the adjustment may be out of order. Try to accelerate slowly instead of In a rush. But I would certainly give the clutch an overhauling and cure thc trouble trou-ble at the source. T am a constant reader of your department, de-partment, and I hays recently bad a trouble trou-ble with the engine of my car that I haven't been able to eliminate, and I would like to ask your advice. A sharp hissing sound occurs in the engine as each cylinder Is fired. I thought it was gas escaping past the piston rings, but T am not sure enough to tear the engine down to fix it. Will you suggest what may be the cause? O. G. Schmidt. The sound noted Is undoubtedly caused hv gas being forced through a small aperture, aper-ture, but I do not thlngthat it is at the piston rings. The probable trouble ts a leak in the manifold, past a spark j P)ntf. at the cylinder head because of a capket leak or at a petcock or some iolnt. Try the petcocks and see If one of j them is not open part way. Squirt all over the various oints while the engine is , running. In this way bubbles will be noticed at the location where the leak Is! occurring. Let me know how this works. I I h:ive a four-cvllnder Bulck which uses a lot of and cannot pull up a hi'1 without stalling, and then I have to shljt Into second or low. The spark is gcod, but it will t's for a while, and then It j Will be all right again. Karl Rennet clar care f too rich a mixture. Cut down he amount of 7nsMen fed so to thin the mixture and I am sure your troubles 11 vanish ; Can alcohol or kerosene b used with j tne orrMnarv carbirreter and de-ent rc-V'llts rc-V'llts obtained" Take a Motley rorbiir.. I tsr, for Inptjinc1. Kenneth Brown YOU 'annot usf alcohol with any d (free of sticcfse. but kerosene can be han-dJvl han-dJvl after the emrinc. ha become heated. You Mwnt start on gasolene. Try a mixture mix-ture nrtwo-thirds keloaene and one-third, gasoline as an axpnriincnt.