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Show FILLED RADIATOR IS BIG CONCERN Water Circulation Is Essential Essen-tial Feature of Most Gasoline Gas-oline Engines. Frequently, the most serious engine malady, leading to overheating, may have such a simple origin that it seems scarcely necessary to call it to the attention at-tention of either experienced or Inexperienced Inex-perienced motorists. Such is the mere neglect to fill the radiator with water. Discover Trouble. How many times has the careless motorist started on an automobile trip and, after proceeding a short distance, observed steam emanating from the radiutorT A great many, of course, with consequent picturesque language lan-guage and vilification of the manufacturers manufac-turers of the car. The usual sequence of events Is as follows: The motorist motor-ist gets out of his car, raises the hood and looks suspiciously at the engine. The engine looks all right. He then studies the reur axle, und finding nothing noth-ing wrong there, feverishly examines exam-ines the running board. After a half hour or so of such investigation, it occurs to him to remove the radiator cap, und he makes the ustounding discovery dis-covery that there Is no water In the radiator. Cure Is Simple. The cure, of course, is very simple but the danger Is that the cure, applied ap-plied too lute, may not be a complete one. For, deprived of the circulation of the water, which Is pn essential feature fea-ture of the design of most gasoline engines, en-gines, a considerable Injury may happen hap-pen to the motor. Low water means a rupld rise In engine temperature, and the only sure way to prevent this, short of remembering to fill the radiator, is to keep an eye on the heat indicator indica-tor on the radiator cap and to stop and examine when tlds Indicator registers abeve the danger line. |