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Show USING KEROSENE Ifi AUTO EH01HE Convenient and Reliable Ar-rar.gement Ar-rar.gement Outlined for Fro-vicing Fro-vicing Gasoline. ANjTKEn GiRBETOa Em No Difficulty Has Been Experienced With New System, r.nd Greater Mileage Has Been Obtained Ful Cost 1b Reduced. Those who have attempted the use of kerosene as fuel In automobile engines en-gines are aware of the Impossibility of starting on tills fuel, and ihe necessity neces-sity of providing gasoline for use u.mil the engine warns up. To provide a convenient and reliable moans of doing do-ing this, ail additional carburetor, and a small auxiliary cotiLainer for gnsiu.'ne were fitted to a delivery car. and have given good results. Briefly, the installation and operation opera-tion of the system are as follows :.. Another An-other carburetor, similar to the one on the car, was obtained. The intake manifold was removed, and was faced off at its dividing point to take the carburetor flange. At the center of the face thus made an Inlet hole was drilled to match the carburetor orifice, and at either side two bolt holes were tapped to correspond with the holes in the carburetor flange. At one end of the main fuel tank, a flat gasoline reservoir, res-ervoir, with a capacity of one gallon, was- placed, as the container for the gasoline supply. It was connected to the extra carburetor installed on the side of the Intake manifold. The main tank, fuel pipe, nnd carburetor carbu-retor 'control on the steering column remained unchanged. The control for the additional carburetor was mounted on the dash ; and consisted of a direct rod connection to the throttle and a friction control lever. The adjusting screws on the throttle valves of both carburetors were set so as to have KlAL.JX1UAm- ?UT" """I f I S b1 2051 J C bod ao oi.. coNrnoC- I WgtAXC MANFFOlt) jf:;"""' ty MAIN CAHBURTOqi7 An Additional Carburetor Is Installed to Supply Gasoline for Starting, While the Old Carburetor Supplies Kerosene From the Main Tank. these valves closed entirely when the operating levers are moved to the off position. To start the engine, the steering-post control Is closed and the dash control lever is opened. After starting, the engine is allowed to warm up for several minutes, and the steering steer-ing post control Is then opened slightly to allow the main carburetor und inlet pipe to heat up. When the pipe has reached its operating temperature of 140 degrees or over, the gasoline carburetor carbu-retor is shut off entirely, and the steering-post control to the kerosene carburetor carbu-retor used. The only attention required is at the start ; once the engine has reached Its operating temperature, the steering-post steering-post control Is used entirely. No difficulties dif-ficulties have been experienced with system, and better mileage per gallon has been obtained with kerosene titan with gasoline. The only noticeable difference was that the motor does not throttle quite as low as with gasoline, and w hen pulling heavily through sand or mud with open throttle, some slight tendency to skip was observable. One-half One-half the fuel cost is saved, and this item easily offsets the difference in running nud the cost of installing the system. Modern carburetors, designed for the heavier grades of fuel, will work on kerosene more successfully than the other types. By G. A. Liters in Popular Pop-ular Mechanics Magazine. |