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STICKING VALVES.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1931,

NOVEL CAR.

Foremost Reason for Baby Record-Breaker.

Engine Stalling.

USEFUL HINTS.

(By Israel Klein.1

Perhaps the foremost reason for -talling of a motor is sticking exhaust valves.

ENGINE ON SIDE.

Datnils of the remarkable "baby" ene with which ford Ridley attain- ed 105,2 miles an hour at Brook-

THE OIL FILTER.

Most Important Part

of Car.

SAVES WEAR.

The oil Alter enver

Imixing with He all, according to

IMPROVING POSITION.

Sale of British Cars în

Australia...

Interesting figures which reveal the stendy progress of the British and show that it is of most unproventing foreign matter such just been mundo available by Mr. wear by motor industry in Australia have (orthodox design.

dust, carbon, grit and sand from J. S. Strong, motor seeretary, General Motors Export Company. II. A. Alfoth, service manager of Australian Association of British Manufacturers. The Agurek relate to the registrations of new "Motorists," Mr. Alfoth RHYN "Will be interested to know just motor vehicles for the first half what an oil filter is and why it year in the years 1029, 1980, and should be renewed after 10,000 miles of driving. The oil filter A steady increase In the per-

Rated at seven horse-power, with a capacity of 746 c... the four- evlinder engine is laid on its side, as It were, the cylinders being horl- Exhaust valves must stand the zontal and projecting towards the strain of high temperatures, near side of the car. One reason rising to about 1,800 degrees for this arrangement is to assist in Fahrenheit in modern engines, the streamlining. So effectively has if there in any tendency toward this been worked out that the actual

il pumping post the pistons inlage area has been reduced to consists of a rectangular bag, mudecentage of Britial vehleles regis- | therefore, there is also the likelleven square feet. hood of forination of a sticky ear- bon deposit on the valves.

Extremely low slung, the chassis members are only four inches from the ground, and the driver sits with

Besides, if the valves are not of

tes legs alongside what would not The proper heat-resisting sub-mally be the sump of the engine, stance, they will warp and stick, while the propeller shaft passes

Lalongside his left hip.

by two patra' Suspension Ja Even the sturdiest of alloys now

of super-imposed quarter-ellip- need for exhaust valves undergic springs fitted with shock-almor-

certain degree

albers. At 6500 r.p. m. the engine since the valves are set into

ents to at snugly before they develops 51b.h.p. Special attention have been put to the severe heat has been given to the olling, the teat, it is advisable for the owner dry-sump system being used. of a new car to have the valves resented after

A

short run.

An unusual feature of the en- comparatively, vine is that the stroke of the pin-i

fons is less than their diameter. supercharger is Sited.

1931.

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from special flammel, with the nap tered was recorded in ench State side forming the inner wall of the for which figures are available, as bag. The beg han an inlet channel the table show's which connects with Berien of other channels running the length of the bag. The oil is thus filtered through the channels in the bng. the dirt remaining on the inside of the channels and the clean oil feeding back to the engine.

"This filtering bag is roiled up¦ and fits into a metal screen, which is placed in a cylindrical metat container having inlet and outlet connexions to the oil samdy,

much w two pounds sludge. including much abrasivej matter. is removed from

the

Vit.

1929. 1930. Per Per cent. cent.

16.8

1931. Per

S. Aus.. 13.6 N.S.W. 118 Q'land.

21.1 16

cent, 22.1

23

14.3

17

8

9.3

12.0

Vic.

Commercial Vehicles.

7.G 10.5 11.5 8. Aus. 10.3 12.5 26.6 N.S.W.

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11.0 Q'land 5.6 5.4 12.6 A great contributing cause to crankense oil by the oil filter, in this gain in popularity of the 10,000 miles of average driving. British ear, of course, has beco The removid of this foreign watter

the car ruder 1100 c.c., and from the sit saves wear and thus the development and success minimizes need for replacement

especially of the miniatura car. of the various working parta sna jengine. Use of the oil filter en- jables Buick to recommend chang-

Usually the practice is to grind The car was built by Lord Ridley valves at about every 10,000 miles. But in the case of a new car the; and Mr. G. L. Sartoris at the for first grinding. G

resenting of mer's Northumberland estate, and

# valves should be done at half that was designed primarily to attack

class records. Then, i mitenge #18 even warped into position and revendedores fit, the valves should give not trouble for a year at least.

"With the of alter the all filtered progressively and through a

The result will be a smaller opening the oil only four times a year. "MOTOR MINDED." ing for the escape of the exhaust gases and consequent failure of The trouble of sticking, valve. The valve to permit the entire and consequent stalling of the charge to escrph. engine, in due in large part to the When this situation arises, new

filtering area of 600 square inches. How Britain's Drivers The filter functions at high

Have Improved. efficiency until every ich o the

fart that there is a apoi along the 'valves should be installed. -tem where the heat is just su In the connexion, it is essential filtering aren has been finally filled

lent to crack any all that might et through to the carabustion that the proper valve tappet clear-with residue, which pe calea

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about Commenting on the reduction in faintained. If this every

10,000 miles of the number of street accidents in chamber and leave a tarry, sticky Colearance is not what had been Then the oil filter cartridge

the London area during the first carbon deposit on its surface. arranged for in The original by replaced, which will make the quarter of this year. The Light Car Thin polot ja just about where deabran, the valve timing will be oil filter as good as new again, and and Cyclecar says:-"We feel that This will affect the ready for 10,000 more miles of ser- the recent increase in rond safely the valve steam stides through the changed.

temperature เฟ the vine. If enated with a sticky rating

The ruide,

motorist should not is the culmination of years of gra- carbon deposit, therefore, the stem valves considerably ranse neglist to have this servicing done und education in highway be

preignition. will stick in the guide.

at an anthorized Buick Service | haviour and it marks, we hope, the station."

Ways of avoiding this trouble! have included reaming unt the

and

But

OB, THOSE TAXES!

beginning of a new era in which overy road user will at last come to realise his responsiblities In the modern scheme of things.

Most trouble of this sort can be uide to give the stem a little more found on the exhaust side. Foom, or of grinding down the part sometimes the intake valves may of the stem that slides through stick, although very seldom,

"The difeulty in the past han When this necurs the blame may the guida. Neither way, is very

been that the motor vehicle has fective, especially if the motor ascribed to formation of a gas-

been a newcomer-an interloper, in Special motor vehicle taxes have fact, in the minds of many; its pre. in pumping oil, biate the layer line gum deposit on the valves,

Gum forms in suoline when it increased 510 per cent, in the past' sence has been resented and Its of sticky carbon will merely become thicker and enune sticking is kept too long

long exposed to air 10 years, the Society of Autumn-speed distrusted. As a result, other There is hardly a chance of Bad-|tive Enginvera reporta. Daring road users have been inclined to to any harmful degree. The sable period motor vehicle stick up for what they have termed

163 in the gasolines on sale at the registration increased

their rights, irrespective of whe- Valves can't stani grinding fuo various service stations. But it, while expenditures for state ther these so-called 'rights' were uften. Every time they are re-would form

consistent with either courtesy or safety; und so long as you have l-feeling on the road, so you will (hove danger.

knyway.

and

faced, the outer edges are worn autem easily in tanks of highways

which have been intered only 43 per cent.

down until the valve, with the allowed to stand without usage. hend decreased in diameter, will If a car hasn't been used for a soat itself lower than originally few weeks it is advisable to drain and therefore will not be lifted as the tank and carburetor and fl} high above the seat a briore, with real gas

ronts

CAUSE OF CONGESTION.

Now, however, the mind of the Ipublic has begun to catch up with the increase in triffic and, with the The main cause of trafli, contes prominent symbol of the Rond ion in cities is the registration Trafic Act before them, road users [of 56 percent, of all be motor in general have made a determined vohielos in Hie enuntry in arbenjeffort to fall in with modern areas, the American Internobile poralitions. The public is, in fact,

enfation reports.

berouting motor minded.***

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Birthplace of Anton J. Cermak, Mayor of Chiengo, Illinois, who was born in this house in Kladno, Czecho- slovakia, and was destined to become Mayor of America's second largest city. A Chevrolet car is parked in front of the little house that has been made famous by n boy who. emigrated to the New World. The Mayor of Kladno hae renamed the street in honour of Anton Cermak.

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SINGLE PEDAL CONTROL.

Important Prediction of English Authority.

"

DON'T TELL THEM

It Isn't a New Car

When, congratulations are being given you for your new car-don't tell them that it is only the new DUCO refinishing job which has made your car colorful and beautiful.

DUCO will give lasting satisfaction, as it is weatherproof and waterproof. It is made only by di Pont. Refuse imitations which only promise to do what DUCO actually does!

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The steerses of the Armstrong-¡ which will apply the brakes. And Siddeley self-changing, pre-selective these brakes will be "hard gear-box, the Daimler iluld flywheel, when the pedal is fully let back. and the Studebaker free-wheel has ted an English authority to predict that the ear of the future will be |controlled by a single pedal.

Using the Feet.

For 30 years or more drivers of motorcars have been taught, how- ever, and their instinct now is, that to stop a car they must forcibly And The fluid lywheel has now tread upon some ngreney. effectively shown that.a car can be there is this to be said for such a driven by means of two pedals only principle, that muscular effort can in place of the regulation three, cone to the rearne when mechanical That is a big advance on some old-jaid has failed. Therefore, there is, to be said for Д time ears, which were controlled by perhaps more five pedals. Protagonista of clee-reversal of the process.

To accelerate you will allow the trielty and stenm-driven vehicles used in the old days to remind us pedal to come up against your foot. hat with internal combustion There will be a neutral position in engines we could never have what which the engine "ticks over,” then they afforded, namely, single-lever thrusting the pedal past this point control. Time will show that they will apply tho brake, are wrong, or, at all events, it can how this, says an Autocar writer.

But that one pedal is enough for

It is not so very many years ago any car

be readily since thousands of De Dion cars established. First of all, wo start were controlled upon this principle, off with the throttle control that, and it was very hard to and any by some means or another. Is In thing, wrong with it. I remember command of the clutch, in conjuncthat at the same time I possessed! tion with a self-changing gear-box also another car of orthodox control, or a freewheel. Then, we want to and it is a fact that I could go

from to the other with no muro make the same pedal take charge of one braking.

difficulty than I now And in ad- justing my feet to an accelerator in the middle as compared with an accelerator at the right-hand side. fffculty at all in this problem. It Single-pedal control is feasible can be solved along two lines, and to-day, and It Is to be recommended for both of them there is precedent. on many scores. The hands cannot Assuming that to make the ear to be too free. Already they have do. If the horn can bo faster wo press the pedal down, then plenty

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One Pedal Only. There is, mechanically,

no

to start it was must allow that blown by foot: If the head lamps pedal to come back. Beyond a dipped and swfvelied by foot; the certain neutral point its motion can screen wiper put into movement by bring into action a servo system foot, why, so much the better!:

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