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Show NEAT TRICKS IN GREASING AUTOS Vexatious Problem to Insert Lubricant Through Plughole' Larger Tharv Gun Nozzle. . CHEMIST'S CORKS ARE IDEAL . w ! a 6peclal Guns Are Part of Equipment . on Many of Most Modern Cars Having Lubricating 8ystems Clean Out Yearly. Ojio of the most vexatious greasing .robleni Is to insert grease through a . pleghole larger than the nozzle of the gun. To keep the grease from going evory where but Into the hole, obtain ; a cork about the size of the largest plug on your cur. Bore a hote In this cork so that It will slide over the stem of the grease gun, and when you tire filling a large hole simply push tli In cork down to fill the oversb.e . opening. Chemists' rubber corks are Jdeul for this purpose. A rag or some string packing wound around the stem of the gun can be forced down to act . a would the cork. Cars Hay Greasing Systems. i Many curs now equipped with greas ing systeiiM using a special gun which connects with the nipples on the car. Vlila makes It eusy to do some advisable advis-able cleaning of the grease passages wut once a season. Attach the empty emp-ty gun, release the plunger so that it cm ii he worked like a pump, and then .proceed to force air through the grease connections. This will serve to clean out the distributing grooves Jji .which, grease residue has probably congealed ' during the winter. To make still more certain of perfect lubrication, precede (he air pressure treatment with a slm-Hnr slm-Hnr treatment of kerosene to flush out the dirty old grease, which will be wen coining out on the- opposite side of (he spring shackle. Then use air a pressure to force out the kerosene be- fore applying freah lubricant. Other Places for Grease. Nor is greasing something to be put only into gun cups and other speckled placea Wipe some grease on the wheel shoulders against which the demountable demount-able rim rests on the Inside. Do this Wmut as often as removal of the rim i required by tire changing. At the me time apply grease sparingly to Jhe rim fasteners and to the rliu bolts. By this practice, nearly all rim aqueuks re permanently ended. The chief objection, apart from engineering en-gineering considerations, is the diffl-cuUy diffl-cuUy of making a double gasket al-BXMuUjr al-BXMuUjr Sr as prooi'. , Aa I.iger.ioas method bus been devised to eliminate the extra gasket and accomplish the same purpose, it is necessary first, to ftilp the car with so-called priming prim-ing spark plugs. The little petcock Intended for Injection of gusoline Is removed. This leaves a threaded port In the spark plug. In this hole screw e IuIk three or four Inches long, with the end of the tube tightly cupped. The effect Is apparently the same us If the cylinder content were enlarged . by the content of the tube the object sought. In (he use of an extra gasket. |