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THE HONGKONG TỪLEGRAPH. MOTORING SUPPLEMENT, SATURDAY, JANUARY 30, 1926.

G. W. K.

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THE PLAIN MA" AND "HIS CAR.

VII. STARTING

By P, W. F. Mills

There are certain steps to bejany use is to insert a rag soaked taken before attempting to start in petrol into the air intake cars engines which are as neces- orifice, allowing it to remala there aary when the engine is already until the engine has warmed up. warm from previous running'us This combines an increased (when the engine and cooling supply of petrol with a decreused

water are cold. The petrol supply supply of air.

tap from the tank tothe саг

If weather conditions make it buretter must be set in the "on" desirable to emply the radiator at position. The gear control lever night it.is useful to make a point i must be in its neutral position. of filling it with hot instead of and. the hand brake lever must cold water. But when there is be locked in the "brakes on" no danger of the radiator water position. The throttle lever freezing during the night draining, should be set about one quarter the radiator in the morning merely open, and the ignition timing con- for the purpose of refilling with trol lever must be set at "rull hot water is too inconvenient to retard." If

110 preliminary be practicable. "swinging" ia intended the In starting car engines under ignition should be "switched on dimeult climutic conditions it before operating the starting must be borne in mind that three handle or starting motor.

factors will greatly influence, the

fold.

"

This

It is safe to say that if a car easiness or difficulty of the engine is functionally sound there attempt. It is absolutely essen- should be no difficulty at all tial that the magneto shall be about starting it when wärm, but providing a spark, at the low this does not apply to engines speed at which the engine will be being started "from cold," parti-turned over, of sufficient pressure cularly when the start is being to bridge the gap at the plug attempted in cold weather or points against the compression when the engine has been lying pressure in the cylinders. idle for some time. Under run-means that not only must the ning conditions a considerabla magneto be in good general order amount of heat passes from the but the plug points must not be cylinder casting and the, cooling set too widely apart.. "Should the water to the carburetter and inlot gap appreciably exceed 1/50th of pipe, and in some cases the an inch the pressure of the com- Evstems of "pre-heating" mention-pressed mixture may prevent ed. in a previous article supply passage of a spark across them at additional heat to the inlet mani-low speeds. It is also essential When the engine is cold that the crankshaft shall be. rotat- these aids to vaporization are fed at a speed high enough to absent, and without some means create the required' suction past of temporarily aftering the car-the carburetter jets. If the buretter adjustment it might be jengine is "gummy" and difficult impossible to introduce into the to turn injection of petrol through cylinders a mixture rich enough the compression taps will free the to ignite easily. The most com-pistons, and, as mentioned in a [monly employed temporary adjust-previous article, holding the ment is that known as "flooding clutch out will be of assistance. the carburetter." As described The final essential condition is in a previous" article "flooding" that a mixture richer than the consists of suspending for such normal shall be actually reaching time as is required the normal the cylinders, Condensation in action of the float feed mechanism the inlet system, resulting in in the carburetter flout chamber, weakening of the mixture, is allowing the level of petrol in the almost inevitable, and only the jet chamber to rise unchecked, use of such means of creating a The high level in the jet chamber very rich mixture na may be pro- results in the engine drawing in vided will remedy this.

mixture much richer than It is a fallacy to believe, that normal, and the enrichment of the the wider open the throttle in mixture continues until the font starting the better chance there mechanism has resumed opera-is of the engine firing at once. tion and the level has dropped to If all means of obtaining a rich its usual height.

mixture are employed on опе Occasionally. carburetter is occasion the amount of throttle Atted with a valve by which all opening will have less bearing on or some of the air supply may be the probability of an early start cut off

required. These than when a start is attempted devices are called "air-stranglers," with the minimum of previous and they serve as alternative or preparation, but it is to be remem- supplementary methods to floodered that all carburetters are ing. Their effect is not al-designed to provide a slightly together similar to that of flood richer mixture at small throttle ing, as the principal difficulty in penings, and as a general "rule introducing !! sufficiently rich the throttle should not be more mixture into the cylinders, arises than one quarter open until the through condensation of petrol engine actually fires. Even then vapour in the inlet pipe, beads of it should not be opened really liquid petrol being deposited on wide, or the symptom known as the walls of the pipe. If this "choking" may become evident. should be the cause of the engine When the engine has run for a refusing to fire flooding should be few minutes the throttle may be more effective than air-strangling opened as wide as is required and as a remedy. A method which (the ignition timing control lever should overcome the difficulty in "advanced" accordingly.

BATTERY ABUSE.

OVERWORKING

SELF-STARTER.

well. With proper treatment a good battery will require Tittle attention beyond keeping the ter- minals clean and tight, and keep- ing the fluid up to the proper level. Use nothing but distilled

If water to refill the battery, No single improvement has this does not appear to give the contributed so much to the com-desired result, take it, to a battery fort and utility of motoring as the service station and have it tested. so-called "self-starter." Yet

nothing has contributed so much Do not attempt to replenish the to the general deterioration of the acid or tinker with it in any other ordinary touring car and commer-way. The starter motor will need ein truck engines. In the old little attention if intelligently days of hand cranking it was used. All it requires is a little. necessary to keep the engine in oil in the right places, and an sufficiently good order to ensure occasional inspection of the com-i reasonably easy starting, which mutator and brushes, meant that it was also in the best condition for general driving.

Now the majority of owners dő not appear to care how hard the engine is to start so long as the electric starter eventually gets it going. That mournful wail 'from the starter gears is a reproach to the neglectful and careless owner. Twenty seconds' grinding with the starter will take more out of

the battery than can be replaced

law. In California, 50,000 per- motor vehicle license and gaso- in 20 miles of steady driving...

sons were penalized nearly $200,- lene tax receipts this year. Of Few batteries wear out-they 000 last year because they did not this. amount, about $4,980,00 are ruined by abuse of the make application for a license comes from motor vehicle license i electric starter. Keep the engine within the time designated by and about $3,020,000 is from their condition to start easily by Jaw.

gasoline tax.

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