THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.
SATURDAY, MAY 21, 1927.
Lubricate Right With ALEMITE
“Every 500 Miles"
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There's no joy in a sweet running motor if your car is full of chassis squeaks.
If you make it a habit to drive in here every 500 miles for a thorough Alemite Lubrication it will keep your car new-and eliminate about 80% of repairs.
-No mess or fuss-it only takes a little while. Prive in today. Treat your car to expert lubrication.
"Every 500 Miles”
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GEAR NOISE
The following is writter in an ignition, "will not start on the altempt to answer numerous in-starter, which turns it over at n quiries from correspondents, who
have complained of unusual hum- fair speed, but I can start it by ming and grinding noises made by flooding the carburetor, advancing their cars. Nearly all gears, the spark and handcranking it.. except those on very expensive
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cars, which are "lapped" together I have cleaned the magneto points. until they ran quietly, make a Can you explain this trouble? slight regular and not very anndy- Answor.--Evidently at the speed ing hum, but when gear noise is at which the starter turns the loud and of a grinding character, magneto, there is not enough the first thing to do is to examine voltage developed produco their lubrication, making sure that sparks, but when you handcrank. there is as much lubricant in the you momentarily turn the engine gear housing as instructions call enough faster than the starter for and that it is of the correct does, to cause the magneto to fire quality."
a charge and speed the engine up so that it keeps on running. You better have the magneto tested ns to strength of its magnets, point separation and other respects, but before doing so, be sure that the apark-plug points are not too widely
Lubricant Quality Required. Lubricant, to insure quiet gear operation, must be stiff enough so
not to be aqueezed out from between the teeth when the gears
separated. The gopa are operating under heavy loads should not be much over 0.020 inch and high tooth pressures, but it
Bomewhat less · than that must be sufficiently thin to flow required with battery current-or freely, even when cold, or it will no spark will pass at the low not be splashed about and distri-cranking speed attained by the beled over gear faces. By using starter. If your magneto is put A good gear oil or transmission into perfect condition and your compound, just liquid enough' to flow, the utmost silencing effect is spark-plugs properly adjusted, obtained. The above obviously trouble.
you should experience no further does not apply to timing gears.
Other Causes of Noise.
In the case of properly lubricat- ed gears, which still are noisy, the trouble is either that their teeth are meshed too deeply or not deep ly enough or that their tooth faces are not af correct form.
Effect of Larger Tyres.
Question.My —— car is equip- ped with 31x4 inch, tyres and my dealer informs me that he can re- place them with gx4 inch tyres and give me much improved riding qualities, but a friend tells me that this change would greatly freduce the engine's pulling power,. so that hills that can at present Mesh may be incorrect simply be taken on high would have to because of wrong positioning of be climbed on second speed. the two years involved and if sult-What is your opinion about this? able adjustments are provided, it How much climbing power would can be made right. Final drive really be lost?
Badly Adjusted Mesh.
gears exemplify this, Looseness AnswerThis proposed change of gear shaft bearings permit will reduce the hill climbing gears to push out of proper mesh ability of your enc, hut only to the and to fnctuate as to their depth extent of less than four per cent. of engagement. This is the case it is very doubtful whether you in transmissions with worn bear would notice this 'rediction very infs and if the bearings are much, but there might be sonic adjustable tightness can be hills which your car would barely restored.
When Teeth are out of Shape. Gears with badly worn or batter
climb on high, before the change, that it would just fail to climb with the larger tyres on, but this would not happen very often with
ed faces run noisily and must be the engine in good condition. replaced.
In the case of timing There is no doubt that the larger gears, non-metallic geurs cantyres would give you some increase usually be substituted for steel in comfort
ones, with quieler results.
Magneto Spark at Starter Speed.
Question. The engine of my MANY AUTO MODELS.
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BEACH SPEEDWAYS.
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Tho now connected route tends from Atinatic beach oppo- sito Jacksonville to Inlet terraco, 18 miles south of Daytonabeach, n. distance of almost 125 miles.
Care now may raco at top speed nearly all the way on beach sands mmooth and hard as a billiard table and averging 500 feet wide at low tile.
The 40 miles from Atlantic bench opposite Jacksonville to Vilano beach, opposite St. Augustine, can bo mude in as many minutes. Tho mainland is renched by the Vilano bridge and then the Matauzas bridgo offers ontrança to Annattoia Island, one of the spoediest stretches in the world.
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It is pointed out by "The Auto-aluminium chassis, and it is rea- lighter cars than have hitherto car" that any tales we may hear of sonable to suppose that with the been envisaged.