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Show f " motor tips I Watch for the lost motion in the steering mechanism and have it attended at-tended to. Few drivers realize how much their safety d spends on the steering gears. It the lost motion In the steering wheel is found to be increasing in-creasing rapidly one of the bill and socket joints of the drug link is coming com-ing loose and will soon let go. stop the- car immediately and investigate, li is easily tightened with a largo screwdriver Set it up as tight us possible pos-sible and secure it with a long cotter pin or piece of Wire, Worn engine bearing? ''an be di -tected by the oil guage pressure. As the bearings wear, the oil circulates more freely and the pressure drops. Tho gasoline s'nou'd be drained every L',000 miles to remove any sediment sedi-ment before it reaches the carburetor carbu-retor and causes trouble. In many of the older car models no means of adjusting the valve clearance clear-ance is provided. By slipping one or more fiber or metal disks of sufficient thickness to take up the excessive play between the bottom of the valve stem and the push rod this trouble may be obviated, A metal retainer cut from sheet metal will keep the disks lu p'ace. That the Dyer anti-theft automobile automo-bile law is working effectively is evidenced evi-denced by the fact that 2.120 stolen automobiles have been recovered, anl that 2,7 73 arrests have been made, 1,113 persons being convfcotrd. with an average sentence of two years Fifty million tons of coal could be saved every year, it is claimed. If efficient effi-cient turbine engines could be substituted substi-tuted for the present type in America. For identification purpose keep an accurate record of the car and numbers num-bers of all parts and accessories. Nearly 8 per cent of the carbon deposit de-posit in the engine comes from the gasoline. |