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Army Truck Records.
Remarkable tyre milleages are diaclosed by'un organisation formed · in Great Britain to hire out to | Territorial units the different types af motor vehicles required by them': for training.
weighs over
HINTS
FOR THE
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ALBERT L. CLOUGH
DETECTING LOOSE WRIST PINS.
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SATURDAY, JULY 20, 1929.
SUNLIGHT TO ORDER.
Ingenious Test of Tyres.
"SUN CRACKING.”
Tropicat sunshine is now being erented in the midst of England's smoky Midlands to test the effect of strong sunlight upon motor. tyres made for ust in hat climates. The innovation has been carried out at the Inbora tories of Fort Dunlop where work is undertaken
This year the fleet to be used by the British Territorial Foreu con- sists of 12 Jowell reconnaissance jears, five Clayton chain-truck trac- tors used for hauling 60-pounders, each of which, with its carriage, The wrist pin (piston-pin) is nz Treatment of Frozen Engine.
Question: have been drawing research seven tons; and 15 part which runs very hot andli
which it is difficult to lubrients off the water from my car into the qualities of rubber destin. Karrier six-wheelers, by which
effectually, because of its location.jeach night, but I forgot, to de ijed. for most parts of the elvilized bardy complete with guns i Moreover, pressure and wear are last night and the radiator and world. sonnel can be taken from Territorin! very unevenly distributed over it engine froze, so that I couldn't "Resistance to sun-cracking," headquarters 10 The comping and its bearing-buthings, causing even crank it. What is the beat one of the laboratory chemists ex- ground.
them to wear out of round rapidly. thing to do in such a case?
plained in an interview, "s an All the vehicles. are fitted with 'Lost motion between the piston] Answer:-Have your car towed essential feature of the modern Dunlop tyres, some of them, the and the connecting-rod is thus into a warm garage and, let it tyre, and by means of the ultro- origin tyres with which the yell produced, which is evidenced by gradually thaw out. When it has violet ray lamp we can to-day ture began two years ago. Since engine knocks. The wrist pin done so, whatever damage has produce, within a few hours, the then many of them, recording to knock is not a heavy one, but is occurred will be indented by effect of exposure to months of An investigation, "have min 30,000 rather sharp and metallic, I water leaks. If any part of the strong sunlight. miles, and the treads are hardly especially hotleeable when anradiator has opened up, a solder- marked."
engine is idling otherwise quietly ing job will probably make it the values of various rubber cont
"By this means we can find out) and although I frequently per-good as new. nista under driving conditions, water runs at from the engine ance to sun-cracking and so anti-
If you find tha pounds with regard to their resist other noises frequently obscure it.it indiestes that the water-jacket cipate the When a eylinder baving a loose has cracked and sometimes such ultimate product may be expected way in which the wrist pin is out out, by short-damage can be repaired by weld to behave in tropical countries, circuiting its plug, the knock hig. If the pup leaks, you prob Ford's Weekly Output.frenerally changes from a single fahly will
new pump. one to a double one. A pin housing. Should you find that; While the production of, motor knock may be differentiated from water is running into the crank vehicles in America was slightly that from a loose connecting-fad, ease, through cracks in the head lower at 148,262, for the week the former doe, not incre or the rusting, this is serious Fended April 27, 1929, compared when the engine is slowed down as it may necessitate replacing, with the previous week, the Food rapidly by suddenly throttling it. these expensive castings." You
a. inereied its output.
The sixth session of the Per- at speed, while Ure Falter does, may find that no permanent manent International Association American Ford factories turned This knock can be distinguished duriage has been done, which will of Road Congresses will be held at 12.800 vehicles in that week, brain a loose piston knock us fol indeed be goud fuck. and the Canadian phent's contribu-bows: Inject very heavy oil-into]
Possfile Cause of Backfiring. |tion of 22mm made the total produe the suspected cylinder and Pur
The engine. If the majae conses;
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than 55 present and consider the results off the wrist pin pobably is such, at which speed it begins foreverch and experience in all All cylinders should be tested in climbing a long hill, the engines.
backfire rangi the carburetor, fphases of highway development and the above methods, and, by using a sounding rat, until it is known will begin to make a crackling
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have noisy as wise in its cylinder head, then their points become red, hot and With the cylinder head removed me to in the carburetor ignite the fresh charges as they and finally stop, unless the clutch are entering, causing knocking. and the crankcase/ opened up.
is released. Each working a connecting rod up and
time this such as you mention, and allowing down with the hand, usually willeurs i have found the carburetor the flame to travel through the
Heat-chamber full of gasoline. Intake into demonstrati
carburetor. loosened at a wrist pin. In a What else than inadequate fuc Heavy carbon deposits may also del shop, having an engine tester of feed can cause this trouble?
this: If the plugs you are using the air pump type, looseness of a
Answer: One other thing, that are not of exactly the type recom pin can be delegied by applying inadequate frei feed can account mended, they should be changed. and withdrawing pressure from for this trouble, and that is but you better check up the fiel the cylinder with the crank on preinitior of the, charges, when feed most carefully, as it may be centre, and watching the rod for the parts in the combustion space insufficient but still fast enough to play in the piston. Noise from become, vory hot from hard run fill the, font-chamber before you Hose pins, destroys the smoothing. Sometimes, if the right can get to it to see how high the
nes of an otherwise quiet engine, kind of spark-plugs are not in use level is. particularly at idling, but loose-
hers at these points ordinarily find one par involves no danger of wreckingj
an engine as does the least rol bearing, for instance.
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THE TOTTERING
Rogally crowned with his.
diamonds black, Sceptred with pick or spade, Coal was a monargli, and ev'ry
stack
Smoke in his honor made; Streamers of sable, his banners
flew
Towering from castles of toll; Homage and wealth from the
world he drew,
Then came the pretender-"Oil."
Gushers
the
that answered probing drill With bountiful fountains of
Hold
Suckled new life-but they
brought a chil
To hearts of the kings of old; Engerly thrown was the strip-
ling's gage
Koen was his buttonless fall, Vibrant his voice shouting:!
"War I wage,
Yield place old monarchs to
**Oll."
MOTORISTS PARADISE.
KING..
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Over the seas and the land the
duel 1s fought-cut with gestures
Krin. For power and motion and force
are fuel;
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The victory? The buyer's whiny; The whip that dotermines which
ehall excel
For kings of production mat
HiRo sell.
Their products in unlts of heat.
Oil's kubjects have menaced
from ev'ry road
Conf thralls that are fixed to
rnilk,
And whenever a motor takes up
its lost
Or a screw-diven vennel naile The battle is fought, But the
old king's fal
Is the whole world's long it he
ilies;
While the end of tho fight will
bring good to all
If the rivals beenme allies.
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world, has less than 2000 automo-totalled
Arabia, largest peninsula in the Gasoline production during 1928 15,841,086,000 gallons. biles, according to the U. S. De. This was an increase of 1 por partment of Commerce.
cent, over the production of 1927.
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