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THE HONGKONG TELEYRAPH, MOTORING SUP

STRAIGHT EIGHT

AUBURN

Durability To the careful, the factor of durability in a car is of vast Importance. Demand the car that will witherand day by day, the hardest usage and kop weet rauning Things are done and care is taken at Auburn factories to insure better performance and longer life than any other manufacturer does Is it unusual stamina that transforms the purchase fan Auburn into a long

paring investment. Drive compare it-11 the Auburn does not sell itsell you will not be asked to buy.

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Full Particulars from:—

EIGHTY

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The UNIVERSAL AUTO SUPPLY Co.

or, Des Voeux Road, Central.

TAXI MEN MAKE RECORD.

HINTS

EMENTA SATURDAY OCTOBER 12, 1923.

FOR MOTORIST

THE

WALBERT L. CLOUGH

KEEPING OIL OUT OF THE CLUTCH.

forms the foot of each adevico This gives the chair.

havo applied radiator cleaning make in regard to making them place of the ball which us compound twice, the fan works more comfor OK and I have had the valves Answer: ground and carbon removed. Can which it

be worth your resiliency which should reduce it bo that the timer has gone while to try, consisting of a road shocks and give the effect wrong?

e special spring that can be insert- of Inoroused softness to tho seat- Answer: The timer can be at- ed to cushion each rear leg of ing. Your dealer can probably tached to the camshaft in one such soats. The spring momber furnish these special spring at- position only and if the timing is of spiral form and takes the tachments. gears are meshed right and the Most, modern makes of cars STOPPING OIL INTRUSION.spark control rod is not bont; have clutches of the dry-diso Most clutch housings have an ignition, timing ahculd be all type the clutching action being open hole at the lowest point, out right. You might look for some due to the friction of asbestos-of which entering oil can escapo, of the following defecte Low, copper fabric against steel. Such and this should always be kept reverse or brake bands dragging, chutches are intended to operate unobstructed. When oil entera poor engine oil or stopped up oil without lubrication and if oil or the clutch cars porsistestly, tho distribution pipo jammed tubon in groase gets onto their discs and cork or other oil-retaining wa- the radiator or faulty rubber their facings, they are likely to shers, if any, at the back of the bosb connections. The fan may fail to engage positively. pilot bearing, may have to be resoem to run all right when

placed or the roar engine may actually does not do so positive- ENGINE OIL EBOAPING INTO have to be tightened to standard ly, at high speeds. The bolt

CLUTCH.

clearance,

should be tight enough so that it ULEANING DISCS AND THEIR takes a perceptibla force to turn the fan by hand, Too rich a FACINGS

gasoline mixture tends towards overheating,

it

Despito precautions takon to prevent it, oil sometimes enters the clutch housing and causes. In case the clutch bogins to serious slipping, the usual, source slip, as indicated by the engine's of such unwelcome lubricant be-racing when the clutch is fully. ing the engine. In order that the longaged, and oil is known to bo clutch shaft may rotate relativo-present in the clutch case, it can. ly to the crankshaft, a ball-bear-be removed, temporarily at least, ing, known as the pilot bearing, as follows: Plug the drain hole is fitted into the hollow rear end in the housing, pour in enough that they ride pretty hard. Is of the crankshaft, which supports gasoline so that the discs will there any suggestion you can

the front end of the clutch shaft. dip into it. Turn the engine over This bearing requiros lubrication with the starter, with ignition and it is usually through it that shut off, for perhaps half a oll escapes onto the clutch shaft minute, engaging and disengag und is whirled onto the clutching the clutch at intervals and diece.

then drain out the gasoline thoroughly

HOW. THE

E OIL GETS IN. Faulty oil retention at this bearing or an oversupply and in- Overhearing a youth in blue uni- adequate return of oil from the rear engine bearing are the usual form ask the direction of the main causes of lubricant reaching the road, near Portland, the 12-year-olutch case. Excessive clearance During a three-month period, old daughter of P. G. Vardy ran to between the crankshaft and its 132 taxi drivers in Cleveland estab- the police station and told her rear bearing bushing is some Bshed a record for safe driving.

times the cause of an oil supply As a result John Sum too great to bo barmloesly dis- These drivers, who went without father.

TREATING DISC FABRIC. This should wash out the oil onough to overcome slipping, but if not. the disc facings can be given greater holding power by treating them with a solution made from one teaspoonful of powdered rosin, dissolved in one pint of turpentine, the procedure being the same as for the gaso- line treatment,

POSSIBLE CAUSES OF OVERHEATING!

'Question: Why does

the

a single crash during this period, mers (22); who had escaped from posed of. Noodlessly high pres- were given cash prizes, banquets, Portland Berstal Institution a sure in the engine lubrication theatre parties and white gold couple of hours before, was recap-system is sometimes a contribut- radiator of my Ford boil in

ing cause."

signet rings.

tured.

twenty minutes of running? I

SPRING SUPPORT FOR COL-2.

LAPSIBLE SEATS. Question. The tilting seats of} my coach seem to have rather atiff upholstery and I find

The now

MICHELIN

COMFORT

low-pressure or balloon

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IS IT

"as good as BUICK?

Before you are persuaded, by an extra allowance on your old car, to buy some car you might not choose otherwise, look it over carefully.

You probably will be told that it is "as good as Buick", but investigate. See if it is!

Does it have a "sealed chassis"? Has it a torque-tube drive? Has it mechanical 4-wheel brakes? Has it a ten-plate, multiple-disc clutch? Has it a Fisher body? Has it adequate and effi- cient nation-wide service facilities? Has it more than a million enthusiastic owners?

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the new car offered you to Buick.

pare

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Division of General Motors Corporation

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The Hongkong & Kowloon Taxi Cab Co., Ltd.

33-35 Des Vœux Road

Telephone Central 1030.

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