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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 1929,

DRAGGING BRAKES. place the hand on the brake drums

and see if they are warmer than normal. Do not do this just after a car has descended a long hill-

Fault of Many Cars. where the brakes have been used

VALUE OF TEST. "Too many cars are being driven

тога or less continuously, but rather after a normal run over level ground. If one whool is hotter! than the others the eure fa obvious- ly to alock up slightly on the brake. There are other ways that the pow- with dragging brakes. If you wereer and fuel is wasted besides to check up on the cars on the road through the brakes and the clutch. sou would find that almost twenty- An improper mixture is a thief of five per cent, of them had at least power. The effect on the pocket- a slight drug on one of the wheels, book of the motorist may not be Many cars are habitually driven noticed at any time, but taken over with the brakes dragging because a long period It will certainly cause a marked difference in the gasoline they are set up too close.

bill as well as in the performance and life of the motor.

It is easily possible for the brakes to drag just enough to cause the drum to heat up but not to smoko or burn. A considerable amount of power is lost in this way. And in addition the brake is being burned out before its normal time, so that money is being wasted not only be cause of the fuel consumed but also because it will be necessary to re-way into the crankcase, thus dilut- Hine the brakes much sooner than ing the lubricating all. In the long would normally be the case.

run this will have a material effect on the life of the pistons, rings and all the bearings.

Fault of Too Rich Mixture. When a car is run on too rich a mixture It will not perform as well. as it should. Furthermore, the life of the car will be cut down because more of the fuel is going to find ite

Another cause of wasted fuel, which while not so frequent as dragging brake, is not uncomon,

Many cars are equipped with a in the slipping clutch. A clutch cold-air intake that is supposed to that slipa noticeably on a steep hill be used in the summer time and may be slipping imperceptibly shut off in the winter. After the every time the ear is accelerated.rat of November in the climatic It in apt to be slipping every time belt of such cities as New York and the ear is driven at a fair rate of Montreal, the lever ahould be shift- speed. As time goes on the slip-ed to the winter position, at which ping tendency will become worse time the cold air is shut off and the and worse. If detected and Im-mulor is being run an pre-heated mediately attended to, the trouble air. This will let it warm up soon- can generally be cured by adjustinger and win cut down the time that the clutch. If it is let go too long, the continued slipping causes the material to glaze and necessitates new clutch facings.

Not Enay to Defect.

it is necessary to run the car with! the chole lever pulled out. If the average motorist know how much while the Kasoline is consumed chake is in use, he would certainly! use it as little as possible. At that time the raw fuel la being drawn) It is easy to detect aliing in a veritable stream into the mani. clutch when a car la climbing fold and thence, into the cylinders, steep hill in high gear. At sikh a where it cuts away the lubricating time the motor will "run ahend" of flm and fis its way down Intü the car. The driver who is famil-the crankcase. What Hitle is burn- iar with his car will know at once ed, in burned without sufficient air, that the motor. is turning over faster than it should for the speed custng it to carbonize the cylin-

the ear is makinu. When this trouble is found it should be attend ed to at once. If this is done the cost for repairs will be very much less than it would be if it were let wo long enough to ruin the clutch facing material,

dera rapidly.

Use the choke to get started and cluse it as soon as possible. Also have the mixture adjusted for cold weather so that it is necessary to use the choke as little is possible, and in this way fuel will not only he saved, but the life of the motor

The dragging brake is not always will be prolonged and thers will be so easy to locate. Often it is not less freuency of oll changing. suspected although the symptoms |*** should be plain. The car will not clumb fills or accelerate as well an!

It should. There is a very notico- able drag or lag to the perform-

ance.

HIGH SPEED RECORDS.

Though high motor speeds seem There is one sure way of finding very recent accomplishments, a re whether or not you have a brake cord of 75 mph, was set as long that is dragging. After a long run ago as 1902.

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A LONG TRIP.

Two Years' Journey.

MANY OBSTACLES,

When he left Río de Janeiro nearly two years ago, Jose Mario Barone had an automobile that looked like one, as upper photo shows. When he arrived in South Bend with it recently, all That was left of it was what is shown in the lover photo.

Barone is shown in inact.

South Bend, Ind., Feb 16th-↑ From here on his hard work The first attempt to link the two sei in. He cut inland, crossing Americas by automobile has been the interior of Argentine and terminated hore with the arrival of slowly climbed the Andes moun- Jose Mario Barone in what is left Lains, 13,000 feel above sea level. He left the worst part of the of his six-year-old Studebakér.

Barone left Rio de Janeiro, Bra-Andes bohind at Tres Crucea, zil, on May 29, 1927, on a 20,000-† Chile, and finally arrived at La mile trip, in an open touring en Paz, capital of Boliva.

with 100,000 miles already on its speedometer. His adventurous. trip led him southward through)

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Leaving La Paz, working west- ward toward the const, he crossed

of Brazil, into Montevideo, Uru- come af, the highest mountains in say. There he circled the mouth the world. He was forced to con- of the Rlo de la Plata into Buenous struct much of his own roadway, Aires, prosperous capital of the as the Interior of South America' ¡Argentine.

is almost virgin Jungle and a mod. ern highway is something un- known.

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Through janglies where creep- ers, undergrowth and massive trees barred his way, through des- erts where the sun sent the radía- tor up to its boiling point, and

aeross numerous mountains, ho fought his way until he reached Lima, Peru, on the west coast of South America.

Still Aghting nature, he passed up through Peru to Ecuador, Co- lombia and Panama..

In Panama, Barone, encountered his greatest difficulty. The isth- mus is about 50 miles wide. Roads eut in on the eastern side for 17 miles and on the western side for 10 miles. The distance between, 23 miles, is impassable except for the Panama raiload. :

Auto Trip by Rail Barone, through an automobile salesman in Ancon, got permission to ride the rafload right-of-way across the lathmus on condition that a qualified' engineer or con- |ductor should ride with him and that he carry two white flags, in- dicating that the automobile was an "extra" and ono, red flag for a "tail Mght."

Riding 23 miles of railroad ties Isn't the best fun, but Barone made it. He continued on his way through the Central American countries, finally to pass through Mexico and land on a wide Texas highway on Jan. 4. By the time ho got here: his car had been stripped of practically all' but the motor and chassis..

"was very glad to reach the United States after such a long trip," says Baronet "I laugh to hear your American motorists complain of bad roads. I tell you I thought I had reached: Paradiso | when I started rolling over those marvellous Texas highways,"

Once in the United States, Ba- rone speeded northward to Chl- cago and from there to South Bend. His next move will be Can- nda, the last leg of his long auto- mobilo jaunt,

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