Show GREASE USED IN SEVERE WEATHER has distinct drawbacks as lubricant f for or automobile during winter season GEARS ui OPERATE ENTIRELY DRY when ud in cup it has characteristic te of getting so hard that tha little lubrication gets get to bearing Sus lace for Ke verill stars past no ino aorist bits used grause nil its it lubricant for ills hin yet pet ninny many cur car owners ahu who ought tu to know better employ plo v heavier lubricant grease cannot flow to the bearing nut cices art and d in uie the the gears cut a clean path through the crenise when hen it Js Is cold und and ruti run practically unlubricated thereafter in addition grease has the unfortunate of currying carrying dirt and foreign matter that it may inay pick up it hub but distinct drawbacks RR a lubricant in tiny any location especially in cold weather went lier when tj it oil ought abt tier t tw be used in winter the Is alit almost icat certain to become packed the walls of 0 any case in fit which it la Is uj u ed while the berrs oi cli ferte erate entirely dry when grease te ia ut ed in cups it has haa the characteristic of getting hard so 0 o that the cup cannot be turned down property properly find and little lubrication sets gets to the hearing bearing for which it la Is ia intended on practically nil all cars of any hut but the most recent vintage crease amase cups cupa are fitted at various locations loca tlona if the owner desires to substitute oil as a lubricant for tile the keithe he tins hits pac to replenish the cups cupi every daify in ninny caves cases abl would by be worth tle tile increased labor wick food devices on the other hand it may ho be possible to replace the grease cups with largo large oil cups having gradual feed I 1 9 some ora e of tile the newer car models have been with central lubricating find and with wick nick oiling devices which require only oner once or twice t q a f earin fenn at any rate the substitution 11 of oil tor or grease for nl 0 roost most any lubrication service will be n I 1 liev fit to the parts affected naturally different parts of tire the mechanism require different lubricants that Is 18 to bay different grades of air oil fop the goals gears the transmission differ enolal and rear axle it a heavy oil will he tile the roost mot satisfactory lubricant lubrica nL the fast year or so haa peen a nun pr er rt 11 1 1 amey ingenious oil clips ot of fored to tile the motoring public soi some no of them thein pat embodying bodying a gradual feed achieved by menus means of constricted pas ans kt 8 that billow the oil tu to lenk leak out only by degrees others employ what Is 1 cnown nh an wick feed tit in which the oil Is in curried carried up lit in a wick and fed gradually tu the port needing lubrica hoff por for midi buch places us as the shack le bolts of tile the springs the cross crois shaf ts of the br brakes alces the universal joints lit in some ionic types this makes a satisfactory arrangement use of graphite it hils always amit tile the custom to lubricate universal joints by nii anns of grease or graphite because thore there 11 li great in keeping oil in the joint this part moves moes with great rapidity when the 19 1 lit in operation arid needs tile most effective lubrication recently it lins hits been found possible to lubricate the uni versula lii by means of oil red fed through wicks in ninny many cases this C change would anve to be tile result of altered deil Rii which the manufacturer Is lorith to do because of the cost wick clrk feed hns has tile the double advant advantage of being economical nn an well us its elb bellr dent in operation the oil travels up the lie wick by capIlI capillary nry attraction just us ua it does up a lamp amp wick and Is discharged upon the surface requiring lubrication the oil spreads itself fill all the whole sur surface fitce and really this method Is afi the next heat best thing to having the parts run nm in oil tile the wide wick oil cup does riot not require frequent filling and another or of the sy Is IB chilt dirt or foreign Atter ri even een if it Is present in the oil cannot ninke its ita way to the bearing surface |