Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1923-11-09 | Page 7 | Automobile Hints

AVTOnOBILK Every car owner ought to make a practice of testing the wheels for side play at least three or four times a year. Wobbly wheels, besides wearing bearings and otherwise racking the machine, have an equally destructive effect on tire treads. Motorists these days like to boast of their ability to get good power and mileage from present-day fuels by "home-made" mechanical adjustments. 0 When an old set of pistons reaches the stage where replacement is necessary, neces-sary, it Is sometimes possible to avoid this 'expense by having the worn set expanded or swelled. A simple way of stopping the leakage leak-age of water from around the connections connec-tions or packing nuts of a water pump Is to apply heavy gease to the pack- 1 lne and threads of connections. j B i Slippery dirt roads have been saie-guarded saie-guarded against by the production of Tmetal mud rim. which is fastened to i the tire in a manner somewhat sim lar i to that used with Uncommon chains.