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LOSS OF POWER.

How to Discover Cause.

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HAPPY VALLEY.

of the fuel and through partial pressure of the expanding gas against the worn eylinder. The rest of the gas escapes through the widened gap between platan; and cylinder wall.

LESS. WORRY FOR DRIVERS.

MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 1928.

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Many service stallon mechanica have been treating automobiles for a disease that, in a large num ber of casca, didn't exist. They have been treating it because there is a popular notion as to its prevalenco-like appendicitis...

The discase is oil pumping. Of course some motors do pump oil after they have been run ten or more thousands of miles and rather recklessly. But many motors, suspected of pumping oil, are quite innocent of the charge. Their fault lies somewhere else.

When valves do not scat pro- perly and leak; the spark plugs get: coated quickly, the engine' begins to miss and knock and the driver fcars his engine has contracted the oil pumping disease... A good mechanic will only grind down the valves, clean or replace the plugs and return the car untouched as to pistóns air rings.

On the other hand, the engine might be running on the wrong grade of oil to keep it going pro- perly, an oil line connexion might be loose, engine head or spark plug gaskets might be defective, or the water pump might be leak- ing. Any of these might produce symptoms that may lend the driver

dull mechanic to diagnose the trouble as oil pump- inge*

or a

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When the motor does pump oil, the solution lies not alone in the Installation of oversize piston rings. That's a job half done. The new rings most often post- pone, the ultimate cure for this fault.

That is reboring of the cylin- ders and installation of oversize pistons, as well as rings.

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This operation may be expected after about 25,000 miles of driving. The constant push and pull of the piston rod, hitting the piston against the sides of the cylinder walls, finally wear down these walls from their perfectly cylindrical shape to that of an oval.

The result is that oil is pumpel up through the gaps formed' at: either end of the oval-shapëdi cylinder and the piston may

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The grinding operation, as a First Sample to

cure, merely produces oversized cylinders but again of true form. This little apparatus will pro-For these, oversize pistons must What's worse da that the un-vide less dirty work and more com- be installed, with new piston pins burned gasoline flowe down fort for motorists hereafter. It's and rings. through, this gap, mixes with the a new kind of grease cup which

And the engine is almost as Bubricating oil in the crankcase, automatically provides fresh oil and helps play farther havoc with or grease for bearing and joints good na new, the cylinder walls and the bear- for as long as 2600 miles. It's the ings:

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FUEL several minutes absolutely nor

mally. The mixture setting was in t

Reach

the usual position, and the exhaust apparently clean and dry. I found

on changing evor to ordinary petrol

BETTER THAN LIGHTS.

that no diference in the running A New York Expert's.

View.

could be detected.

It was possible to get blotting

New York, Dec. 13.

A FRENCH INVENTION, paper soaked in the safety fuel to

burn, but it did not flare up with "The trained policeman atanding The Morning Post received a explosive violence, and was far at the congested corner with his gallon of the new French "safety" more reluctant to catch alight than hand raised is still the best regu-

of ordinary motorlator of street traffic." by special aeroplane from Paris on in the case December 19.

spirit,

With these words, William P. Though the spirit would not be Eno, world famous traffic authority The sample was drawn from the tank of an acroplane which had as valuable to the motorist as to and devisor of the original traffic time a regulations for Now York, Paris run on the petrol for several hours, the airman, at the same Bourget aerodrome and stamped as this would be much appreciated, by the Bureau Veritas to prove its particularly for commercial haul

ago, when large quantities are

Value to Aviation.

[By Jsrael Klein.] Somehow the car has lost its pep and power.

She seems to run more endily than ever. She'll start on a mere Crankcase of dilution is a serious twist of the crank, if need be. problem automotive engineers are But she won't climb the hills she trying to combat. They're study-installed in Studebaker cars. This The entire operation is a big ised to take easily in high, shefing it in the laboratories, trying magazine lubricating device was task and requires skilled work and the bottle was sealed at Lo petrol which is as reluctant to burn and London, denies the efficacy of won't pull ahead of trafle as she to learn what causes it, how it used on the whirlwind motor that affects the engine and what can took Lindbergh to Paris and over Worst of all, she's eating up be done to prevent it. more than her usual quota of gas,: and the oil has to be renewed ·too] Gasoline, mixing with the soft often.

used to.

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the United States.

oil in the crankcase, cute it and an abrasive and leaves openings reduces its oiliness. Instead of for the unwanted mixtures. An autopsy on an engine dia- the thin protecting. film that is

manship. For the next thousand miles the engine again has to be worked in slowly, after which the motor may run ever better than when now.

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authenticity.

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the growing system of traffic con- trol by means of lights.

Eno has just returned from The new fuel was discovered by stored.

Europe where he studied the forma M. Ferrier, an official of a French

of traffic control in the large cities. Government Department, who The new "safety fuel" "London, Paris and Brussels, immediately handed over the causing something of a sensation after investigating our traffic patents to the French Admiralty, among these interested in aviation lights, have refused to adopt Its great possibilities were realised in this country. Even the Air Chain, says Eno, "except us red

playing such symptoms will most needed between piston and cyliu-The oil thing out in the crank- ROUND THE WORLD Bardel, the Chief Engineer Ministry's dechnical experts have lights for control of traffle only at likely reveal worn down pistons der wall; to prevent friction be- case, fuel is wasted through the and cylinder walls as the major tween these moving parts and to widening piston and cylinder gap, difficulty.

keep the expanding gases and un-, power is lost through escape of

fuel from What happens as a result of burned

escaping the expanding gas. this wear is the loss of power through this space, there's an un- through only partial combustion even liquid that acte almost as

THE CORNER LOT ELEVEN GETS A LITTLE FREE AIR FOR THEIR FOOTBALL AT

THE EXPENSE OF OL TRUSTY

Hurry UP!

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The cause of this goes back to poor driving and lack of cop- sideration for the engine.

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When the car is first started, world, which took twenty-four and practically fire-proof. It was action was proposed the following age person who has not taken into

In company with S. T. Glanfield,

to

of the French air line, and albeen taken completely by surprise. the intersections where they are special carburetter was construct- The fuel, If it justifies the claims į located.

The worst impediment to the ed by Zenith to take the petrol on that have been made for it, will

not only prove of value in com-seientific management of traffic at an ordinary air liner. British Motor-cyclist's . Bajac, the chief pilot of the merical aviation-lighter-than-air present," he goes on, is the at-

especially-but also in tempt to regulate it by a syn Record Trip.

line, made a series of long flights craft with the petrol, and it was found service aviation. Upon inquiries chronized or progressive system of After an exciting ride round the to be us efficient as ordinary petrol at the Air Ministry as to what lights instead of by hand.

"This system appeals to the aver- the space between piston and weeks, Flight-Sergeant Sparkes, of after the last of these flights that official reply was issued:

"The Air Ministry has no par-consideration that traffic at inter cylinder wall is dry. It takes the Rt. A, F., arrived in London re- the petrol was taken from the tank

official ticulars so far of this fuel, but sections varies so greatly in volume. quite a few turns of the engine gently, having beaten the record for of the air liner, under

the immediate steps are being taken to and character that what is good for to bring the oil up Into the cylig- the tour on a Rudge motor-cycle and supervision, and sent

obtain details with a view to as one Intersection may not be appro- Morning Post. ders and leave the required film sidecar. for good smooth running.

Match Extinguished.

certaining the possibilities for its priate for another.

"Millions of dollars have already Impatient drivers fail to con- whom he left exploring in Asia, I had an opportunity of testing n use in the Royal Air Force."

Judging from the tests that have been expended by police depart sider this. They race the ongine Sparkes had his first adventure in small quantity of the new "safety before the oil has been able to get Northern Africa. He was sur-fuet," says the motoring Correa-been carried out with this fuel a ments in the United States for these through, affording two good rounded by a group of threatening pondent of the paper, and I may machine using it might crash, the lights, However, engineers and obtained tanks might burst, and the fuel students of traffle are beginning to chances for crankcase ofl dilution. Bedouing, he only escaped by driy say that the results 1

Racing the engine requires an ing at the crowd, Later, in a Bur-were astonishing. I poured about pour all over the hot engine and realize the false economy of me- overdose of fuel. An overdose mese village, the two adventurers two tablespoonfuls of the fluid into exhaust pipes without there being chanically controlled traffic." almost invariably leaves a large were called out of bed by a large tin, and was quite unable any risk of fire.

Reducing Spark Danger. the natives to defend residue of unburned fuel in the

them to light it with a match. All that

Fire due to spark from's loose combustion chambers.

against a tiger, which was scared happened was that the match, on

being put into the spirit, flared up high tension lead igniting, petról Racing the engine immediately away by racing the engines of their for a moment and then went out which has collected in some crevice

machines. en starting makes it harder for the oil in the crankcase to come The fastest stretch of the tour as if it had been extinguished by in the engine, or engine cowling. up and cover the cylinder walls was the 3,000 miles across America water. With ordinary petrol in would be unlikely to occur with with its protective film, and so from the Pacific to the Atlantic the same tin the spirit burst into the Terrier fuel,

It will be recalled that it was the leavea an Inviting gap for the un-coast, Sparkes covered this in flame long before the match had

Loriginal aim of the designers of cleven days, averaging over 300 touched the surface. burned fuel to seep through,

I then got the tin nearly red hot the two 5,000,000 cubit feet air- DUKE OF YORK SPEAKS. miles a day. In Arizona, he was by burning ordinary motor spirit ships, which are being built for the warned against outlaws, and on Racing never did an engine any seeing two "wild and woolly" men "safety fuo!" on to it there was engines in order to eliminate the in it, and on pouring the special Government to use heavy oil good,

gesticulating and shouting to him, It's the easiest and quickest way Sparkes raced his machine and sent just a puff of white vapour, but risk of fire. The engines have not toward diluting the crankcase oli tered them.

Ordinary petrol when been developed in time, however, A little Inter, he had no fre with unburned fuel, toward to stop because of an apparent poured on to the tin caught fire at and petrol engines are being sub prizes for "Safety First" essays. acoring the cylinder walls and bombardment., Earth and stones once.

stituted in the R 100.

organised by the London Safety I then poured a small quantity The new fuel would seem to First Council, bearing surfaces, toward reducing were flung up all round him, and on

"We want more goodwill among power and eating up lots of gas dismounting he discovered that bo of the fuel into the float chambers provide the airship designers with and oil

had ridden inte somo quarry blast-of the two carburotters of a car a way out of their difficulty. They the different types of road users, Start easily, run the engine ing operations. The "wild and that had had all the other petrol could obtain the advantages of he added, "and more attention to slowly, don't jam down the acce- woolly" men were outposts who had drained out. The engine was just fully developed petrol engines with setting a good example, and spore Jerator Buddenly and you'll been detailed to warn travellers of warm, and it started at the drst the advantages of a fuel far less clating the courtesies received than eliminate the troubles arising the blasting operations.

pull up of the handle and ran for inflammable than petrol.

abusing the failings of the few from crankcase oll dilution.

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"GOOD FELLOW- SHIP."

Road Users' Needs.

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good. fellowship on the road.

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