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Show PROVIDE ENGINE WITH LUBRICANT Liquid in Crank Base Sometimes Thinned Out With Gasoline and Disaster Follows. MAKE CERTAIN OF RIGHT OIL Old Material Should Be Drawn Out and New Supply Put in for Every 1,000 Miles of Driving Keep Close Watch on Gauge. The wise car owner obeys his instruction in-struction book explicitly. He fills the base of his engine with lubricant when oil is necessary, as indicated by the gauge, but the instruction book does not always advise him further regarding regard-ing the oiling system. At the present high cost of lubricant more instructions instruc-tions are necessary. You may have liquid in the base of your engine, hut is it a lubricant? Many times this liquid is a combination combina-tion of cylinder oil and gasoline. Its lubricating properties are poor and should the hearings burn out through lack of oil the owner is apt to blame the oil for the trouble. Then he immediately im-mediately buys oil of another grade, without knowing the real reason for his trouble. Make Sure of Right Oil. The hest way to make sure of having hav-ing the right grade of oil is to use religiously re-ligiously the oil recommended by the manufacturers of the particular car you drive. Depending upon the type of engine, crank-case oil should be changed regularly. Old lubricating oil should be drawn out and new oil put in for at least every 1,0(X) miles of driving.' In special cases it is advisable advis-able to renew the oil much offener, but this is the usual length of time it may be left in the engine. If tne engine doesn't get a sufficient amount of oil it will run hot. If the driver does not notice that his oil gauge is failing to indicate, it is doubtful doubt-ful that he would know the engine was hot until It stopped and wouldn't run any more. In such a case he would probably find that one or two, perhaps all, of the hearings are burnt out. Something Wrong. When the engine is not getting enough oil it is usually because the oil supply has been allowed to run low or there. is something wrong with the circulating system either the pump is not forcing the oil to the hearings hear-ings properly or the pipes are plugged or the connections are loose or the strainer is obstructed with foreign matter. Whenever the gauge does not function func-tion properly the trouble should be investigated at once. Make sure, first of all, that there is enough oil in the crank case. Then take a, careful look at the oil pipe connections to make sure that they are not leaking. If these are tight take out the oil strainer strain-er and clean It and if the trouble is still in evidence disconnect ail the oil pipes and stick wires through them or blow them nut with the tire pump. Finally, a better adjustment of the oil pump may be made to cause it to pump more oil. provided indications prove it to be improperly adjusted. |