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Show Arrange Car for Rigors of Hard Winter Work With winter here the motorist should check over his car or have his service station do so in order that it will be in proper" condition to withstand the rigors of winter driving. The following recommendations on putting the car in. shape for winter are gleaned from Sumner S. Howard, an authority on automobile service. The tirst steo in the procedure is to clean the chassis, engine and body, as dirt can hide many defects. Tighten all bolt's and nuts. Check front wheels for proper alignment; align-ment; remove hub caps and re-grease; adjust wheel bearings and replace hub caps. Check steering gear for proper adjustment. ad-justment. Drain the old oil from the transmission trans-mission and differential and pour into both about a quart of kerosene. At the same time put in the radiator a few handfuls of salsoda and then drive the car two or three miles. The kerosene kero-sene should then be drained from the transmission and differential and water wa-ter drained from the radiator. A winter win-ter grade lubricant recommended by the car m;.ufacturer should then be put in the ft-ansmission and differential. differ-ential. Inspect the rubber hose connections, replacing If necessary, after which the radiator should be filled with clean water; and at the first appearance of cold weather an anti-freeze solution should be added. Next, drain oil from the engine; flush crankcase and put in a winter grade of oil. If the oil filter has been in use for 10,090 miles install a new cartridge. Inspect wiring and clean contacts; oil generator and starting motor and clean the armatures and brushes; set generator charging rate ahead for winter win-ter driving; check breaker points for proper spacing; replace spark plugs if used more than 10,000 miles; h' used less than this, clean them and adjust the gaps ; clean battery with ammonia water solution; tighten terminals ter-minals and grease with vaseline; inspect in-spect water level and if gravity reading read-ing is -low, recharge. nil onrl irvftnco nil nnrtc thtlf rd. quire It. Adjust brakes and rellne if necessary. neces-sary. The motorist should also examine the top of his car. Going over the top with a good grade of top dressing will do much to preserve it and help appearances. Many car manufacturers are now equipping cars with a summer and winter driving adjustment on the , carburetors car-buretors and the proper adjustment to the carburetor should be made at this time. The fuel and carburetor strainers strain-ers should also be taken out and cleaned. With these simple but highly essential essen-tial adjustments, a winter of carefree driving should be enjoyed. |