The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-04
Autorn 7bi g News

l Flooding the carburetor and pT-inin2
 are common means of starting in cold
 weather, as is also the shutting of the
 air passage, allowing the full section | of the motor to fall upon the spray
 nozzle. These should not fall with a
 motor that has been running well UP | to that time. With a cold and St1ff motor, however, even priming will fail
 at times and the other methods pro- | duce no effect whatever. In such in ] cylinder of the motor have been found efficacious by many physicians and others who know of this method An other trick that has been tried with success is the placing of about a ta- blesponful of carbide in Q small tin having a friction ton A hole is then cut through the cover and the cover placed Cn ise --.sstt-t hole in the cover is run a small rubber tube
 or ar piece of hose into the air intake
 of the ca~buretor. Through ano' her
 glass Of water After waiting for
 about a half minute the motor is
 cranked
 Just about this time of the year the
 autom obilist is seriously thinking over
 the problem of whether he shall keep
 his car in commission all winter CT
 whether he shall put in dead storage
 until a more favorable season for mo
 bring shall again come around For
 those who have decided to keep their
 cars running it would be well for them
 CO clean out the O1linS system II lIlS
 has not been done during the summer
 season. On cars that use a circulat-
 ing oiling system this is especially inn
 portant as it will not suffice to simply renew the oil that is burnt up or that leaks away. The old oil that gathers
 in the bottom of the crankcase will become waxy and dirty. It will lose the very features which render it de- sirable as a cylinder oil and will cause trouble by cumming up the piston rings and carbonizing. If the course of the oil that is led through a cir culating sys'em be followed it will readily be seen by the most inexper- fenced amateur that this cleaning out is a necessity, and that its omission will entail undesirable consequences
 Perhaps the owner of an otherwise well-behaVed car will be surprised to find that his motor has developed an appreciable miss, seemingly overnight when he starts to take it out one of the cold, frosty mornings that have now become common throughout the more northerly states. If he is motor wise he will know that the time has come when he must readjust his car buretor. The assistance of a certain of heat is necessary in vapor- this heat is applied by taking the air from a tube surrounding the exhaust pipe, while in others a hot water jack ct is used for the same purpose When the temperature Of the outside air drops to a considerable extent the means provided for heating the air do not raise the temperature as far as is required by the carburetor adjustment that was satisfactory for summer. The air, being colder, does not evaporF the gasoline and as res ut a rnisfre will develop. There are two cures for this trouble One is the taking of extra precautions to secure a warm supply of air and the other is to make | change in the carburetor adjustment 1 The first is that generally adopted by i the carburetor makers who provide fit l tings to be attached to the carburetor | when the cold weather sets in. The l second method is the step that the l owners of carburetors not having the | not-air attachment are compel1ed to l take. The adjustment consists si'
 ply in supplying a greater quantity | of gasoline for a, given weight Of air. |