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Show Carburetor Easily Hurt by Using Cotton Waste In cleaning your engine, it is a wise policy not to use waste. Very often the lint of cotton waste sticks to the various engine parts and when the engine hood is put down Is sucked Into the carburetor. When this occurs, oc-curs, the flow of fuel is made irregular irregu-lar and sometimes stopped altogether. On many occasions the cause Is not readily found and much time is wasted in blowing out the fuel line only to find the trouble in the needle valve of the carburetor. Instead of waste, it is much better to use some clean piece of old cloth which has a soft finish and does not give off the lint that Is so objectionable objection-able in the cafe of waste. What holds true In the case of waste lint is also . true with road dust and dirt. Under ordinary conditionu the engine hood and the engine under-pan under-pan serve to keep a great majority of the dust aud dirt out of the air Intake In-take to the carburetor. Sometimes drivers are prone to raise their engine hoods In hot weather because of the belief that .permitting a free exit of air through the sides of the hood will prevent the engine from overheating. |