THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1931.
WHY MOTORCARS WEAR OUT.
Survey of Causes of Mechanical Deterioration
and Destruction.
It may be as well first of all towers out Its useful life without atato that what I have in mind need for dismantling for carbon
quently result merely in getting be borne in mind that, mechanical- | them cooler and cooler owing to ly, tho prloo is being paid. the increased volume of air pussing Pages might be written on this through the radiator. This nol subject, covering such mattera us only cools the water, but efectually frame and body racking, inteare rcours away all worm air from hammering from road, shocks, tym under the bonnet. The modern, wear, and so forth radiator is a very efficient affair, Slow Speeds As Well are and often too effective. In Buch enses cylinder and piston wear will be unduly rapid.
Worn Parts Accelerate More Repairs.
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LUBRICATION.
A Most Important Item.
USEFUL HINTS.
[By Israel Klein.]
In tins article, Israel Klein
is not no much the effects of fair removal. Further, if an engine is\ and piston wear exist, the wear of sibilities of diation dues pos-gives valuable hintato motorists.
to the
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The most uninviting job in the maintenance of an automobile is lubrication of the chassis.
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here is just na, important a tunik as any, if the owner would assure fortable automobile. himself of an officient and com-
This sort of work should be unsigned to a competent, auto mechanic or service man. But it would not be amiss for the owner to know exactly what the service man has to do, and to see that it is dont properly.
In fact, the knowledge of what in to be done in lubricating a chassin will lead the motorist more to appreciate the importance of having this work done at regular intervals.
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CONTROL OF WILLYS-OVERLAND.
Linwood A. Miller head of Willys-Overland.
The motor
Detrimental.. Alternatively, slow speeds not too good for the mechanism, because in this case the englue in running on dirty, rich carburattor Further, when 'bad conditions mixture, thu
thus increasing the wear and tear, or even of Mome this designed, it will give a ur other parts will also be accelerated, carburation.
to wel Hongkong, AB it happens, forms of l-usage, writes W. L.prising mileage before platons, beenuse crank
Further, in most possesses an excellent lubrication Fisher In The Autocar. The fellow-cylinder bores, or
case dillation is case, when
the station erected by the Texua Com- bearings need usually present. As pistons, rings, engine does not got on to
hen running slowly ing notes chiefly refer to those attention.
itapany, where modern machinery en- Features of design and construc The All-important induction
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d cylinders are worn, fuel finds rythmic speed, where there is the aures every part being thoroughly tion that cause needlessly rapid
Efficiency.
Its way into the sump in increas-greatest economy, amoothneas, and lubriented.] deterioration. It
ing
In this has to be ad-
The length of life of platons and quantities.
way the free, effortless running. mitted, however, that in the
in the present cylinders hears m absolutely direct engine parts suffer
crankshaft
bearings and all the Other det
details bringing about siate of design and maufacture relationship to the efficiency of the lapping effect of the diluted and at the crankshaft caused by bad through the deterioration are sudden snatches certain of these shortcomings are luction system. In nine cases contaminated oil. Carbon unavoidable. One form of destruc-out of ten the durability of these excellent lapping medium,
is an clutching or the fitting of a clutch tion that in, nevertheless, definitely parts is entirely guverned by the dirty rings and grooves are very Sparking plugs that are "atale" or that will not tako up gently. inexcusable is that which always extent to which carburation is dry seems to accompany any visit to at the valve ports or combustion
are weakening in their electrical a repair or service department. head. Other factors are, of course, the failure of
Another enuse of undue wenr in properties may cause "thump" and Evan
makers own depots are too
Bunder and piston material, that certam parts of accesories in Plugs has seen much service one or oll to reach the rough running. When n set of often m
merely
slaughter-is their inherent resistance fo houses. All kinds of unexpected wear, includitat the size, pressure, alegiate amounts. Oil starvation more may develop electrical leakage atrocities are perpetrated in these type, and number of piston rings, accessory drives, alve gear, And bring about roughness places, often without kny relation may, of course, have
and so un, does eccur, similar to that evidenced by faulty ω specific job undertaken.
admittedly that is a fait distribution. As a safety rule for tence on wear. but if of reason that is not That needlessly rapid destruction se quality and used in safleieat t
80 general as in the the average motorist it may be said place in the average vehiclentity, with the contents of the
just. In
discarded most modern engines that plugs should be must be admitted if the life of sump changed as necessary. little there are un totally unlubricated when they have covered 10,000 motor cars
be
compared with the narm will be dune,
arts, ns was the enuse a few yearsmiles, whether they are still firing almost miles service yielded by
hark. It b, however, still possible or not. Reverting to the importance of other types of mechanisms. Second- carburation, the factor at the to find parts working at ton bisa Most of the foregoing ennuses are
General advice in to the effect priest, or current rates of aunt of heat available for vontact pressures. Oil in such cir-minar and Incidental to the main depreciation, are largely a reflec-porisation of the fuel.
cumstances is forced away, and destructive agency in the induction th the chassis should be lubri This heut
sret. fuel, wasben tion of this fact. The subject is may be taken from the induction there is a drying up or starvation system, when
besented about every thousand miles. admittedly a large one, and if pipe itself, from a hot spot, from for the working surfaces.
| UNION the cylinder oil and so Sometimes, however, conditions Toledo, D., Sept. 21-When of John N. Willys. thoroughly explored is found
creates the conditions for rapid are such that this job should be John N. Willys, U.S. ambaasudór, magnate hired him in 1915 as have endless ramifications, but thee jurta and valves, or from an All other factors being equal, a
sree of hot air to the; outside
smooth-running engine will wear
Unfortunately, must an-done before the thousand miles are to Poland, retired from the pres-manager of his office staff, in This again Is largely tomobile engineers are more important influences may be atake, or it may be a composite matte
seeking a covered. Some motorists take a dency of the Willys-Overland Com-which capacity he had many outlined.
malter of carburation, te. disolution of this problem of cylinder long time to travel any of them." With the recent
pany here, a sorry future WAH chances to display his knowledge Their better The First Visit—Scratches and general vogue of rudiator shutters tribution. It is not possible for an and piston wear by attacking the miles.
judgment predicted for his successor.
of Industrial engineering and ant not the enuse. Decarbonization.
the temperature of the air under engine to run smoothly if each effect
All should guide them in this parti
When the slump came in the fall management. In 1926 his work belag bent Kuponi cular. With reasonable luck, the first the bonnets of most ears is much cylinder is firing a different charge, efforts are now
of 1929, the prophets of doom were was rewarded with a promotion to of differing quality and amar materials for cylinders and pistons. Insecuring better and better
prepared to see their prediction frst vice president and member of When the average motorist come true.
the board of directors. This as a rule occurs all too rauidtion, the destruction caused by h
But 1932 is approaching and ty and is of itself & confession of wet fuel is much
Checks All Car Details, fallure to burn fund theist has There
distribution utimately materials will be lapped away if spring bolts. These are quite an vived. but la one of the four or atre.
no methods of faulty
consideration. But five
Miller is almost a part of the uae that in cartons up the cylinders to a dic-the conditions are such as to pro-important been paid for. The operation is at present in
Automobile manufacturera cars his company turns out. He The life of the there are other parts just as im- producing an automobile that lives nothing but automobilee. one that is now fairly well under- any way approach the ideal. Given ferent degree. In this way commote this action.
selling better than it did last year. All details of design and manufac stood and is not, as a rule, very
a cold morning or evening, even in hustian-chambers soon becouse of arts may be prolonged, but the portant. highly charged for. The ner the temperate
There are the front axle king to the result will be as before.
The answer Hes in Linwood A. there is different sizes, no adding will be lucky, however, if the ear with most cars a lengthy period of tribution "thump" that may
trophic and Increasing
One promising development in pin any dis
and thrust bearings, the steer-Miller, successor to Willys, in his ture come to his desk for con- with matorinia
Bideration. underpowered driving, in
becomin
All kinds of advanco- sing drag link and tie rod ball escaper without other damage of
patience and sistence. furnished by
Miller, 45, linder the centrifugally cast studs, the eluteh and brake pedal!
ments made or proposed in the plump. grey- Home Hort being down. Serated by undue use of the present. to wings, bonnet A probable
This In a general gr. with wet fuel and wear
way speed is | strangler.
process of shaft bearings, clutch thrust bear-haired and keen as sensor, as automobile field receive his atten-
tion. easting gives
brake mechanism bearings slowly and effectively built up are cars with destroyer. The desiructive effects,
close an intensely en a result. There Вго more than
universal joints, propeller shaft Willys-Overland to s Arm stand factors methods.
He is alert to Improvements in There may also be stripped induction systems apparently an particularly of sustained speeds, grain owing to the pressure on the threads, burred mits, leaking water
Arterail roads molten metal created entrifugally Intermediate bearings, and the ing, despite the depression. surprising. be driven mile after mile withouthronium and other
varions alloys.
nickel, the fan and water pump. such In und piston went.
retiremont 1928.
Away from business Miller's mantled. with mining split i will be found
Many of these bearings aro hard "then the oil becomes "let-up"
Constituenta and so on.
greatest interest in in his family In many eu, for bonnet
are being introduced to to get at and demand painstaking. anduly heated, and by the sustained that are high, and temperatures
Lending
But not one out harden the iron. The rolling of work to lubricate.
and home. With his wife and his is steadily forced
From be made of dirtying the bodywork warm enough to bring about the from
all indications, Miller three sons, Junior, Edward and acea, vlinder hores has no inferior alan. The outstanding
The rubbing velocities being high. necessary vaporisation.
role of an Horatio Alger hero.
of his leisure moments in his fact is that decarbonisation should In order to meet all conditions wear is greatly accelerated. It is thin skin In any event, and when drive.
disappears the be unnecessary, belag
(Continued on Page .) brought for home and expert, and summer true that the engine, being a heat this
mitalis
is 48
secretary to the general super-Toledo suburb. About
before. Casting temperá- of and winter une, the mass of cars metho
likes this "beating been investigated with a
intendent of the Pennsylvania For sport he takes to golf. arburetting.
are today trassly over-abled, thermodymunically. Ja
wrong end. When clean carbura Raitrond. Five years at that and although he plays for the sport in mal It is possible to design an in. Desperate efforts to heat them up cases a decent engine to one, and the chilling of castings
to rendering
#n combustion arrive, he became efficiency engineer for itself rather than for the distinc- duction system so that an engine by harder and harder driving fre-better and better. Bat it has
tried with same object in viewabormal eslinder and piston wear the Curtle Publishing Company in tion of being in the low 80's. The "nitriding" of steel liners may "Autocar."
will automatically disappear. | Philadelphin.
Like President Hoover, Millor Here he attracted the attention is of Quaker ancestry. alse I mentioned as furnishing an intensely realstant surface.
such cases
*
thousand
thing that should bring a car toure propitious for clean carbura- | *** there is different power while this is all to the gond. it thinks of chasais lubrication, his the repair shop is decarbonisation. ton, Given favourable heat conds well as duration of this kind is obvious that even these harder thoughts are directed first to the Willys-Overland not only han sur-
tamm
owner
and
+1
Betons,
are
cylinder. Further,
In
He has Ilved
He with cars for 16 years and he
jainta, and imperfect assembly emed that are. nevertheless, not) any controls that have been conspicuous sufferera from cylinder have a lot to answer for! If a car during pouring Then there are various bearinga around the motor. has been president since Willys' {knows his product well,
pinu
that the
cases
normal
should be neglected, if the car is
Gete a Good Start.
some obscure reason, a point will that the air to the carburettor is between the various surfaces,loved, but this only produces to remain comfortable and easy to would never have filled into the Richard, he spends the greater
by
faulty
mechanism.
to
190ft ng
View
With the piston, the matter in dealt with by employing the new copper- hardened and other strong light- duty alloys. Considerable adynuces ulve certainly buren made, but all really deal with matter at the
Nineteen found him working beautiful house and garden in a
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