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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

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TIPS.

SATURDAY, MAY 5, 1928.

USEFUL HINTS AND friend to move round the car while it is being driven slowly, to see whether the squeak can be Identified as coming from any particular component. As a last!

Suggestions and Advice Based on Experience. Probably there are few things the doora of a car have developed more irritating than to find that sufficient play to allow rattle, be cause few parts of the ear can be responsible for more noise. If the hinges are tight and sometimes the screws work loose, the trouble generally in that the small pad on the edge of the door has became worn; the pad is very often made of hard rubber or some shailar

substance.

Rattle then can be cured easily by substituting another, plece of rubber. If the rattle has been allowed to continue for a long time the tongue of the door lock will generally show signs of wear, and wear at this point allows the door movement which it should not have. If the socket into which this tongue fits cannot be altered, It is best to have a new socket with an orifice made to fit the existing tongue. A fair number of modern cars now have adjustable wedges for the express purpose of taking up any play that may develop.

WHITE LINE ON ROADS.

resource, oiling everything in turn Motorists Who Ignore that can possibly squeak may locate the trouble: A stethoscope,

the Warning. > obtainable, as a rule, from an accessory dealer, and principally piston knocks in an engine, can used for listening for bearing or sometimes be employed advantage to trace a squeal..

with

When the springs of a car áre

very free and when, in the case

a provincial town where the paver. ments are inadequate and where the chief danger is from pedest trians, who, quite naturally, step. off into the road to allow others

to pass, is asking for trouble. The

proper place to drive in this case in towards the centre of the road,

bilo Association has

The warning which the Automaan then the driver has a chance of pulling up in time or avoiding rocently should keep well within the safety issued to motorists that they people who step off the pavement

Cross Roads. white line on corners is well time, says the Motoring Correspondent

Again, with regard to cross- of the London Morning Post. roada. It is perfectly true that It adopted on dangerous corners they anyone to drive over cross-roads When these lines were first would be extremely dangerous for a sports enr, it is desirable to were treated with great respect, on the wrong side of the road. tiffen up the whole spring in- but lately motorists have not been The proper way is to cross more the best plan is to hind the leaves the same extent, and it is under keeps well to the left, one is com dependent of the shock absorber, keeping within their boundaries to or less on the crown, as, if one

together by wrapping whincord stood that the authorities will take pletely “blind", to any traffic. that round the leaves, with a knot at action if this negligence continues.is energing on that side.

One fraquent intervals. This is not so

can, in fact, turn what is normally easy an operation as it may sound. There is, of course, no actual a fairly anfe cross-road into a The cord has to be really tight the legal liability for a motorist to dangerous one by keeping too close whole way along, and the knots, keep inside the line, but as those to the left-hand side.. must be reliable therwise the lines are presumably only put whole wrapping will come undone down at dangerous points, it le

The first duty of any motorist

in a very short time. Wrapping a obvious that any prosecution that who goes over a cross-road is to whethor any other apring in this fashion is useful may take place will be for dan-ascertain

vehicle is about to cut his path at when a car is about to be taken gerous driving.

for a Continental tour, as it slight- The original iden of the white right angles; he has a far better ly reduces the possibility of break-line was extremely sound, and no chance of doing this, provided his Ing a spring lenf owing to the exception could be taken to its speed is moderate, if he keeps near cord limiting substantially the application to dangerous corners, the centre of the road than if he flexion of the spring leaves.

as if its commands were properly keeps close on the loft handside, observed, that most fruitful cause

Binding the Springs.

It is undoubtedly for this rea- of all accidents, namely passing on son that many motorists have come corners, would be definitely times be used with advantage in

Stout insulating tape can some-topped. place of cord, and there is a waiter, Excessive Exploitation. which is put on puttee-wise and has practically the same effect.

Effects of Frame Flexion. There is another point to look

to treat the white line with con- tempt, and It would be a good for. When a car is old it some

thing if someone with an actual times happens that the frame is

knowledge of driving conditions. bent very slightly, If it has

During the last few months, ting these lines down all over the Bagged in the middle the doors may jam when the passengers are Before the wrapping is put on, the however, there has been an in- could be made responsible for put- on board and yet may be quite free springs should be greased to pre-creasing tendency to ignore these country.

lincs, and again and again on the when the car is unloaded. This vent rust.

In the matter of shock road one comes across cars pass- point bears upon the size of the absorbers,-it-must-be-remembered ing each other on blind corners rubber packing piece, which is put

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in to stop a rattle, because after that the running of the car canquile regardless of the warning-of- the new packing piece is in poal- be altered materially by the the white line and far on the tion the car should be loaded nor adjustment of these components. wrong side of it..

Undoubtedly one of the reasons Production and sales of cars by A shock absorber will not stay at mally and the door tested.

the same pressure indefinitely; for this has been the excessive the Cadillac Motor Car Company two months of Some small cars sag slightly at wear la always taking place and exploitation of the white line by during the first

is consequently some local authorities. The same 1928 exceeded those of 1927 by the back, allowing the door to adjustment

Indeed, tho shock thing happened with regard to more than 116 per cent, and ship- gape. A rather crude method of needed. overcoming this difficulty is to put absorber, simple and reliable ng It rond danger signs at one period in ments were nearly 100 per cent. atrips of fabric between the rear is, should not be neglected, a fact the history of motoring.

of the body and the frame until the body itself is in its normal į position and the fabric has made up the difference caused by the sagging of the frame.

a ratile of their own.

These

the newcomer should bear in mind. were erected at every conceivable Teater than in the same period Taking the ordinary friction place, and when a motorist found of last year, according to a state- type. Hartford shock absorber as that many of them were totally ment by Lawrence P. Fisher, pre- chch of the past three years, the being possibly one of the most unnecessary he naturally began to sident of the company. During

adjustment

is ignore those which were necessary company's production and sales common types, effected by putting a spanner on

Much the same thing has hap- have exceeded those of the preced- Door handles very often develop the bly hexagon nut in the centre

There is of the pack of shock-absorber discs pened over the white line. These Ing year by more than 25 per cent. down indis- the increase in the three years hav- really only one remedy, which is and turning the nut in a clockwise have been put to obtain another handle forth-direction, that is, the direction In criminately in places where they ing totalled 98 per cent. The ten- with, but on those rare occasions which the nut is serewed further are often unnecessary, and, in my tative schedule adopted January when the rattle is caused only by on its bolt or stud. Each nut ja opinion, in some casos where they 1 of this year calling for 50,000 Cadillac and LaSalle cars is a fur- the nut securing the handle being provided with a pointer, and the are actually dangerous.

For instance, to put a white line ther 40 per cent. Increase over last n bad fit, placing a spring washer adjustment should be taken up between this nut and the handle evenly; that is to say, if one nut in the centre of a narrow street in year. proper will Kenerally prove is moved a quarter of a turn, the successful in correcting this very similar nut on the other three annoying trouble,

shuck absorbers should hefnoved With a Hitle an equal amount. care the resistance the nut offers to movement will tell one whether the pressures are very nearly equal,

Winding mechanism for wins dows, or any form of mechanical device for raising or lowering the glass becomes accessible if the up- holstery be removed from the door. ja process generally facilitated by the fact that it is attached by series of cloth-covered nails. It is best to obtain a supply of these nails from a coachbuilder as spares, since some damage may be done to the existing ones during dismantling. Cloth-covered nails should be driven in with a piece of cork or relatively soft material used between the nail and the hammer, and should not be hit direct hy the metal end of the hammer,

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If the shock absorbers are too loose the car will roll more and the springs become more lively than usual. If the shock absorbers are too tight, the springs are very much harder, and every small inequality in the road de- livers its shock straight to the body. Shock absorbers need not be very tight unless the car is used for speed events.

If the shock absorbers are much too tight the spring may practical- ly cease to function is a spring. and the wheel, axle and spring will move as though they were one piece.

New Instrument Needed.

The most important point is to

· Rattles in other parts of the car are equally annoying, and can be very difficult indeed to trace. The windscreen is a fruitful source of trouble in this direction, and it may be found that the brass discs on the ends of the axis rod of the equalize the pressure on all four movable part of the screen are lose on the rod. The brass discs shock absorbers, and it would be a very good thing if an instrument are usually clamped by, a butterfly hut. If this nut is undone and the existed to tell one readily what the Shock- whole screen lifted off, it will pressure is of each. unally he found that there is a absorber discs should never be. Betscrew with a screwdriver head lubricated. sunk in the disc, and if this is screwed hard home the trouble may be remedied.

Curing Screen Nattles.

While on the subject of shock absorbers it is well to mention that the two armis should be in the same plane so that the point at which the upper arm is attached to the frame is in the same straight line as the point of attachment to the axle, because, in which case a local couch-If this is not so, when the shock builder will put the mattor right absorber moves an undue stress fa in a very short time.

put, upon one or other of the arms.

In older cars a clamping screw, through rough usago, fails fre- quently to grip the disc properly,

If the screen glass is rattling Other types of shock absorbers in the channel there is nothing for have their own individual adjust- it but to fit a new rubber hing.ments, and certain forms of If the uprights of the screen are damper have no adjustment at all, loose on the body the nuts or in which case the interior friction screws which secure them will mechanism should be removed, have to be tightened more, and InNever run with a shock absorber certain instances this may entail broken away on one side of the car removing parts of the upholstery.and its companion shock absorber in full working order on the other The leather-covered metal sup-

Bide. parts for the hood sometimes come loose. The nuts which secure

Keeping Foot Control.. them to the body, as a rule, are underneath the upholstery at the

As time goes on, tho surface on side of the rear seat in a four-the pedal plate of a car becomes senter, or the front seat in a two-shiny, and therefore slippery. It is not woll to allow the process to It is far more difficult to trace. go too far because in an emer asqueak than a rattle. By stand-gency the foot may slip from the Ing on the running boards and clutch or braka pedal, with dis

The pedal making the car sway vigorously on concerting results.

aenter.

its springe, squeaks in the shacklo plate can be roughened by cutting pins, which are common through lines in. It with a chisel, or punch lack of lubricntion, can be located marks can be made all over the fairly easily.

plate, while alternatively, rubber Squeaks in the running mechan-covers can be obtained, which will fit accurately over the plato, and Liam, however, are best identified may be renewed when, after long

by obtaining the assistance of a usage, they became badly worn,

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