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Show 110 TO OPERATE BRAKES ON AUTO Shift to Low Gear When Descending Steep Grades . and Prevent Wear. Motorists may have trouble with brakes during exceptionally hot weather. There are perhaps two reasons rea-sons for this. One is that much more touring and driving is done in the summer and the other is that the lubricant lu-bricant in the rear axle becoming , thinned by heat often works its way out of the axle end under the brake drum. During hot spells we often see cars - . with oil thrown over the brake drums and tin; inside of the wheels, writes Clyde 11. i-'ratt in the Cleveland Plain Dealer. This is due to heat thinning the lubricant so that it works out. The ren.edy is to have new grease-retaining washers put in the axle, or put in heavier lubricant, or both. Less Brake Trouble. In case of brake troubles due to long hills, there is less of this than in the earlier days of motoring because be-cause there hav been so many serious accidents due to the burning out of brake linings that in many places at the top of long and dangerous hills we find signs posted warning the driver driv-er to use the lower speed gear. On an average steep hill the second speed gears will hold the car with just a little extra pressure on the brake pedal. Before starting down a steep hill stop, put the gears into low speed, retard re-tard the spark, close the throttle and run down the hill with the clutch engaged. en-gaged. Engine Holds Car. In going dowi. hill in this way the endue will hold the car hack with very little extra use of the brakes. Naturally yon cannot drive very fast wliou using low-speed guars, neither can you drive verr fast in going up this same hill, but in going over this kind of road in mountainous country the question of safety must be the driver's first consideration if he intends in-tends to live to tell the people at home about his journey. There evidently are drivers w,.o feel that it is beneath them to lake this so-called ultra I retention This is perhaps the reason we may see the wrecks of their cars overgrown with bushes along mountain roads. |