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Show OVERiiEftTifiOT 09 MUCH DAMAGE Cooling System of Automobile Automo-bile Should Be Kept in Best Condition. (lly KKWIN OHIiBH. President Greer Col-f Col-f Au'.imultve rUnh inOtM Inff, Chicago.) Vuii have ull seen the fellow who iuslies ins steaming, clanking cur ahmit town. It looks for all the world like u haby locomotive, but perhaps what you and he don't know is that this overheated condition injures the pistons, the cylinders, the bearings and ull internal parts of the engine. Of course, it is likely to cause damage to some of these parts and shortly he learns this himself after lie has paid u big repair bill for information that could have been gleaned from any instruction in-struction hook. If you run the car with Its spark retarded the engine will overheat. Carbon, Car-bon, u crippled fan and impeded water tlow through the cooling system will also cause overheating. Stop and Investigate. When out driving and your car overheats over-heats It Is imperative to Instantly stop iind find the trouble. In an emergency u very wise thing to do Is' to pour an abundance of oil into the crank case. Of course 'your exhaust will smoke, but the additional oil will offer a protection pro-tection to the inside of the engine until relief Is at hand. The fan Is one of the most Important Im-portant parts of the cooling system. If the belt slips so as to reduce the fan draft U must be adjusted, but In making the adjustment do not get the belt too tight for it will break. Clean the belt in gasoline every so often and rid It of the oil and gummy matter. Hitch up your garden hose and send Its spray through the openings in the radiator that probably are clogged with mud. But do this from the engine side of the radiator, otherwise you will short circuit the electrical system. Radiator May Se Clogged. If the engine still overheats It is probable that the inside of the radiator radia-tor Is clogged, so disconnect both the Inlet and outlet and plug them with corks. Now make a mixture of half-and-half vinegar and wafer and fill the radiator to its brim. Let It stand for half an hour. Then allow this mixture to drain oft' and put the nozzle of the hose into the inlet of the radiator. Turn on the water and let it run for an hour. The flushing should be very thorough as the vinegar remaining in the tidies would eventually eat them to a certain extent. Then connect the radiator and your trouble will be found to have disappeared! provided that a clogged radiator was the cause of the overheat ing. The ideas outlined above are not new. nor are they the only ways and means of accomplishing your purpose, but they give satisfaction, are not complicated, costly , nor unduly time-consuming. time-consuming. Try them and see. |