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Show MAKING SPRINGS RIDE VERY EASY' Most of Them Are Either Too Stiff or Too Soft and Either I Is Uncomfortable. LUBRICATION OFTEN BLAMED Indiscriminate Advice May Be Worse Than Useless as No Two Seta Are Alike Intelligent Attention Is Big Need. Automobiles may be divided into two classes, those with springs that are too stiff and those that are too soft. Either can be very uncomfortable. uncomfort-able. "Bere and there, of course, there Is a car with springs that really spring without springing the occupants occu-pants of the car against the top," writes an expert ' Automobile Instruction books, car experts and all the wiseacres of the fraternity advise one to lubricate the springs regularly. If the springs need It, that Is very good advice, but It sometimes happens that the lubrication lubrica-tion is the very last thing that the springs need. If you could work a little rust or gummed oil between the spring leaves and thus retard the spring action. It might be endurable. Of course, this Is when the springs are too soft and spring too much. Indiscriminate Indis-criminate advice as to the care of springs may be worse than useless. No two sets of springs require the noma marllnlna TKorofnPfl kofnna lowing anyone's advice to lubricate the springs It were well to discover whether they need It. Soft Springs Yield Easily. ' Soft springs, so flexible that they yield easily to road unevenness, are Inclined to compress too readily when they drop Into a hole or hit a bump. They fly back Into normal position, sag down again and after a while cease vibrating. Meanwhile you are bouncing around like a rubber ball. Now to oil such a spring merely Intensifies In-tensifies all this. Tou do not need the exercise acquired by the oiling process. proc-ess. You will get all you need riding In the car without It. Such a spring needs friction between the leaves rather than lubrication. Friction slows the motion of the spring and steadies the car. Now. almost every one will tell you thnt trictitin between the it-HVes makes the car ride hard. Probably the first Mme you heard anyone say this and thought your car wos not particularly asy you oiled the springs and went om the frying pan Into the fire. However, this compliant Is not as jerjornl as that where tlie springs, utterly ut-terly neglected and rusted together, havo lost a Inrge part of their resiliency, resili-ency, so that the car rldee like a farm wagon. In such a case lubricating the spring leaves Is the greatest aid to omfort. A quarter's worth of graphite graph-ite grease and a liberal quantity of lbow grease works wonders for a tiff spring. Intelligent Attention Needed. Springs really do need a great deal it attention, If It be Intelligent atten-lon. atten-lon. They shouVI be taken apart nt 'eust twice a ywar and cleaned and lubricated well. There niny be ob-nlned ob-nlned lubrication Inserts to go be-ween be-ween the leaves of tlie fjirinu'S, vhlcli usuully Itict for the life of the ar. If tlie ir!ni'H have been well de-igneil de-igneil they will not need extrn ut-'Ht ut-'Ht hitients to u nke the enr rhie easily, uit ii .everi-i'iiBvener car will not ide ns easily with two pernors n 'th its normal loud. The point vliere the sjirini-'s nre attiirh'Ml to the rojv ii ml th'! suspension point on the ijlc or frame need frequent Inspee-ion Inspee-ion and luhrirution regularly at tho V-iuts Indicated In the flr Instruction V-vU. Spring sluo-KleH will wear quick- unless luhrieiited, rendering a j.ikdov u much more likely. |