Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-06-02

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is blown out through the exhaust
valve. With overhead valves, how
| ever, the large chunks are apt to stop
in the cylinder until reduced to pow
| der This method will clean and
polish the surface of the cylinder head
mind eye, hand and foot, together
with some mechanical skill and knOwl-
edge
Too many learn to drive a car from
the wrong end Of the row. The me-
Chanica details of the car should be
mastered before, not afL~r, the would
be driver has steered his somewhat
uncertain way down the road. Be
cause it is possible to drive for miles,
and years, without the least knOWI-
edge Of the details or construction OF
car or why a certain operation pro-
duCes a certain effect it is done, and
done too often. For when anything
happens, which it generally does, d
good working knowledge Of the essen
tial mechanism is Of inestmable
value
You do not have to know everything
about the engine, transmission, differ
ential and the thousand and one other
details. Some of the parts, though,
sooner or later will need your pc"
sonal attention, and if you know moth
ing about them they will need it
vain. Certain details are connected so
closely with ordinary driving that they
should be mastered, if you are to
recognize the art of driving at all.
The best way you can start out to
master the art Of driving is to have
someone who is experienced and COM
petent go with you and explain every
step in the process of driving. 1t is
not absolutely necessary, however,
that you follow this plan. 1t will make
it faster for you, though, and you will
be more apt to learn things in their
logical sequence rather than in
mass.
Until you have mastered the rudi-
ments of driving it is best, for you and
for everybody else, that you avoid the
traffic Of the streets. Most owners
are too anxious to drive along the
roads or through the streets and start
out long before they are ready. No
wonder then, is there, that they be-
come ratified and forget their instruc-
tons when occasion arises for them
to observe them? For instance, if a
new owner becomes thoroughly fami-
liar with the handling Of clutch, gears,
brakes and so on before going out on
the road, she then can give her entire
attention to steering and will not have
to look or feel about for the levers
and pedals
Keep Away from Traffic at First
1t is not only best but wisest for
new driver not to try to drive through
congested thoroughfares. When !
enough skill has been acquired to at !
tempt the heavy traffic even then the
greatest care must be used, turns
must be made slowly, distractions
must be avoided with ample leeway
and the driver must be ready at any
time to slow down when doubtful as
to what course other vehicles will :
take
The ease of driving will seem ready
to the touch when you first get hold
Of the steering wheel. The slightest
turn of it brings a response so quick
as to be rather upsetting to the mental
balance of the new driver A wide
road in this part Of the arts Cultiva-
ton is essential. 1t will take expert
ments to steer properly. No matter
how carefully you have observed driv-
ers before you as to just how far
forward and how far backward they
turn the wheel when rounding a cor
ner, you will find it all different when
you yourself take the wheel. One rea-
son for this is that probably you will
not be able to put your observations
into effect for some unforeseen cause.
1t always is hard to foresee what will
make you forget your instructions
when you are a new driver.
Changing Of gears takes practise be-
fore you can do it even to your own
much more to the salts
faction Of the expert, whose benefit
you are getting presumably. The best
practise is that Of starting. backing
and turning, actually changing gears
not once or twice but several times.
BY doing these things often enough
hey will become almost mechanical
finally, another contamination devout
~ to be wished. II
Before starting out make it a prac-
Use to examine the lubricator and
grease cups. The wearing parts of
he cars should be we'll oiled. Fill the
'adiator with water. Have plenty of
gasoline. And it would be better if
he gasoline were strained, as grit and
lirt clog the carbureter See that the
Tres are properly inflated and in good
condition. 1t wouldn't be at all bad
o examine the brakes and see that
hey grip and release readily. II the
ire is not inflated properly it will
year out sooner. Besides, sudden
blowout may cause the car to skid or