MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 1930.
THE HONGKONG TILEGRAPH,
A PRUNING KNIFE
"BUMP ABSORBER" OF RUBBER.
Unless you are very careful in your choice of a car, you will fin many vexatious additions to the cost of motoring.
The Jowett is a real pruning knife to such exponses as these with the result that Jowetting" becomes the cheapest form of motoring in Hong Kong,
Since 1906 the brains of the Jowett organisation have been applied to reducing the cost of running
a car,
Buy the car that cuts the cost! Buy a Jowett and be satisfied.
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A rubber bumper demonstrated in New York is said toʻ prevent damage to a molor car in a crash. It is the invention of Captain Franzcari Schleiff, shown in the picture, formerly of the German air force. It consists of a three-inch rubbor bar attached to two scissors-like arms fitted to the chassis. On meeting a flat object, the bumper acts as in figure 1 of the inset. Collision with an irregular object is shown in figure 2, and figure 3 shows a collision with a tree.
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Rabul's Record:
[By Israel Klein.]
SUICIDE, CLUB.
The Chief Constable of Han- chester states in his report of last TEN CARS PER MILE. fatal and 50.6 per cent, of the non- year that 56.6 per cent, of the
When something goes wrong If every one of the 500 cars in fatal accidents in Manchester with the engine and you have
Rabaul takes the road at once, the were due to thoughtlessness of trouble locating the cause, re-traffic congestion. must be terrific; pedestrians, member one important point for there are only 50 miles of good leave the carburetor for last."
road on the island of New Britalu, Although the immediate cause of which Rabaul ia the capital.
of engine trouble mast likely will The white population totals only be found at some other spot, it 500 so that a world's record of on has become. a habit among many car per white man seems to have motorists, and even garage me-been achieved. A Chinese popu- chanics, to meddie with the carbulation of 1,600 also inhabits the retor first. This instrument is the island.
heart of the automotive system. These facts were revealed by It has been properly adjusted at Mr. J. B. Steel, the Shell Com the factory and in so designed that pany's manager for the Mandated it requires very little further ad- Territories and Papua, who re- justment to keep it operating pro- contly returned to Australia. perly.
Although his company's first depot in the Mandated Territory was The carburetor, therefore, should established in 1928, the facilitica be the last instrument to touch had to be doubled six months age." when looking for the source of! Freight and passenger 'plane motor trouble. Before looking at services have helped to develop it, it might be advisable to check commorce and mining. Some of up the following possible sources the nine planes operating between of engine break-down:
Rabaul, and the diggings make 1-Compression if that is low, three trips per day. The largest there is a leak somewhere and is a Handley-Pave freighter with very little power results. Com-a wing-spread of 87 feet. pression may be tested by hand, by turning over the engine cylinder by cylinder with the crank, while the ignition switch is off and the hand throttle slightly open.. If} More than 3,246,200 automobiles the resistance on the compression) were sold during 1920 on the time atroko is alight, and the engine payment plan. These cars werej turns over rather easily, there is handled by 100 finance, firms a leak through valves, around which advanced more than pistons that are loose or cracked, $1,506,000,000 for the purchases. or through loose spark plugs. The valves, may need grinding and
TAKING THEIR TIME.
resenting, perhaps piston rings are pletely. Now turn the idling worn or broken, the cylinders may screw toward the lean and watch be cracked. These should be the movement of the fan. Keep on checked over, if compression is turning toward the lean until you loose, before another source
of notice the fan falter. Then turn trouble. is sought.
the same screw back” ́a götch or need two until the fan is rotating
2--Spark plugs-may cleaning, or replacement. Gaps steadily,
should be the thinness of a worn dime in width.
3-Timing-should be checked. 4-Breaker points should be cleaned and adjusted.
5-Gasoline line should be free from dirt and water.
6 Intake gaskets many leak. Check these by putting water, or oil, around edges, and seeing if bubbles arise,
7-Spark
control-should checked if operating properly.
8-Vacuum tank suction line- may be carrying gasoline directly over to the engine.
9-Choke control-may not close thoroughly when supposedly not in operation.
If, after all these points have! been checked up and corrected, the engine trouble persists, then the carburetor may be suspected. Possibly the only difficulty: here] may concern the proper adjust- ment. That's not so hard a job, but even this requires knowledge of the particular carburetor in use.
This can be ascertained from the instruction book furnished with the car. Besides telling how the carburetor is made, it gives instructions for adjustment.
Some carburetors have only one! point of adjustment, others have two and some have even three adjustments. It would not 'do to tamper with the parts of the carburetor until you know what each means and how it should be
adjusted. *
All carburetors, however, have an adjustment for idling speed. It is this, in most cases, that has to be readjusted in order to get the motor operating properly from idling to high speed. This is rather simple,
First retard the spark all the way and close the throttle com-
į
While doing this, open the throttle momentarily in order to clear the carburetor of accumu- lated gasoline, and so as not to choke up the engine entirely.
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