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Show Hints Worth Remembering in Care of Motor Cars Danger of scratches or other Injury to the enamel finish of a car while working around the engine may be obviated by covering the fender with a piece of oilcloth lined with some soft material. If one front tire shows the correct pressure, don't bother to test the other unless steering Is troublesome. When the car does not draw toward one side or the other, front Urea are equally Inflated. Testing one is the same as testing both. Keep the pliers in some convenient location. They are your most useful motor tool. In an emergency they will do the work of a variety of wrenches. You can hammer with them. And frequently one end Is designed as a screwdriver. Handy pliers save unlocking un-locking the tool compartment or raising rais-ing the cushions. In rolling up rain curtains the best way to carry them start with a front curtain first, and then add the forward for-ward ones in order. Make a roll for each side. Since the rearward curtains cur-tains are Invariably the first needed when It rains or turns off cold, finding the right curtain Is merely a matter of peeling the rolls In order. Ever attach the grease gun to a nipple to have the grease work out at the Juncture Instead of at the bearing bear-ing itself? You can waste a lot of good time and energy trying to discover dis-cover the trouble, and you may even go to the unnecessary expense of buying buy-ing a new outfit or neglecting the job altogether. All you have to do is to remember that this sort of trouble la caused by dirt or bits of foreign matter, mat-ter, either on the nipple or in the nipple end of the high-pressure tube. A small pebble will render the gun useless until it is removed. fThe rag you use for cleaning up as you grease the car is the one to use for rubbing up the axles, bumpers, springs, etc. When you cannot seem tp force grease into a spring bolt, and If you do not have a booster for the gun, there is another way out. Hook up the gun and tube, and give it as much pressure as you can. Then tie the gun to the car and drive over a rough piece of street or roadway. The action ac-tion of the springs will free the obstruction ob-struction in the spring bolt grease-way grease-way with the result that the old grease will work out and be replaced by the new. |