Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-10-27 | Page 34 | Owners' Service Department

I OWNERS' SERVICE j DEPARTMENT f I am having a peculiar starting trouble. I press the starter pedal and the starter gear seems to want to turn the flywheel, but it doesn't. The car is a Chevrolet 490. The starter gear seems all right and free on the screwshaft. It gets into mesh sometimes, as I have noticed when the garage man cranked, but it won't crank the engine. Everything else is fine. P-Ransoni. P-Ransoni. I should say without hesitation it is a weak batterv. The lights might burn all right, but still there may not be enough current for starting. "We have a Marmon 41. which we use with a truck body for delivering caskets. We are having starter trouble. When the pedal "i pressed something turns around under the hood, but the motor doesn't turn over. Sounds like the rattling around of a chain. The starter is a Northeast make. Can you tell what the trouble is? Henry Cobe. I can't tell definitely from what you sav. but from what I know about that particular starter installation I certainly would blame the starter clutch. The motor mo-tor generator clutch slips. You wfll have to understand the construction to adjust this clutch. We have a Hudson that has a special Hudson carbureter on and it drips gasoline gaso-line when the engine is stopped. It isn't the float, and I don't know where else to look for the trouble. J. B. Thonaas. Aside from the nut under the float bowl there is one under the body. Remove the latter and you will be able to get at a gland, which evidently is leaking or allowing al-lowing gasoline to work around it. Look in your Hudson instruction book and you wiil see this gland shown in the sectional view of the carbureter. I heard that there will be no new cars for sale next year and that the. government govern-ment is likely to stop the use of cars, except ex-cept trucks, altogether. What do you know about it? Truckman. I can say almost with certainty that there will be new cars for sale practically all of next year. There may not be as many as the demand calls for. but there wili be new ones. I doubt whether the use of passenger cars ever will be stopped for lack of fuel. Can I use a 6100 batten' in place of a 6 SO? Will it. cause the lamps to burn out, or what is the objection? Pomeroy. The battery change is all right. The first figure is the voltage, which ts the same in both cases. The second figure gives the capacity in ajnpere hours. One simply has a greater current capacity fbar the othft" u