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Show MORE ATTENTION NEEDED FOR CAR Breakdown Inevitable if Continuously Continu-ously Forced at Highest Possible Pressure. (By EBWIN GREER, President Greer College of Automotive Engineering, Chicago.) A car is like a human being. It can work moderately through a long lifetime life-time and only "grow old gracefully," but If continuously forced at the highest high-est possible pressure a breakdown is Inevitable sooner or later. Avoid subjecting a car continuously to unreasonably heavy road shocks. Rushing over rough roads at high ; speed is bound to result in abnormal j wear and tear. AH body and runnlm; ! gear parts loosen up prematurely un der such treatment and the damage from road rack Is probably nearly quadrupled by doubling the speed, j Examples of Harshness. I Refrain from harshness In operation, I of which the following are examples: I Racing the engine; stepping on the throttle, to obtain maximum accelera-'. accelera-'. tion ; jamming on the brakes brutally ; ' forcing the gears together when they do not engage readily; letting In the clutch violently and skidding around curves. ' Beware of heedlessness In operation, for It i-s this shortcoming that brings about the frozen radiator, the bearings that are burned out or cylinders that are scored from lack of oil, and the reverse gears that are stripped by try- j lng to mesh them while a car is In mo- I tion, not to speak of all the damage caused by collisions. Repair Defects Promptly. The prompt correction of defects, when they first develop and before their consequences have become serious, seri-ous, Is another Important consideration. considera-tion. If a loose connecting rod bearing I is at once taken care of, when Its ham mering Is first noticed, the repair outlay out-lay need not be large, but if repairs are neglected until the rod has broken loose and wrecked the crankcase and perhaps the whole cylinder block, the replacement expense will be staggering. stagger-ing. Let no motorist fail to realize that, In nine cases out of ten, It Is Imperfect lubrication that brings a car to the repair re-pair shop. Repair expense is nothing else than tribute exacted by the Demon De-mon Friction. |