South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-10-20

providing It doesn't stand over one
hour. ] look after these cars faith
fully myself. The Ford recently
was equipped with a new timer and
roller and new wires. 1 took the
coils and had them tested and ad-
ljusted Fixed up the spark plugs.
ground valves, burned and scraPed
lcarbon out, had magnetic tested, had
new magnet pole put on. Also had
the field wire where the magnet
point touches. fixed up: cleaned out
gas pipe, strained gas for water,
changed my oil every 1000 miles.
also looked after my radiator well.
After doing these things it wouldn't
start any better, SO L got four dry
cells. hooked them up and still no
explosion. The only way can start
is by printing two or three times
once going. the car runs beautiful
~. / also looked to see If water got
in the head by the way Of the gas
ket, but none does. No short cir
cult as 1 inspected all wires care
fully What is your opinion? All
the repair men j have taken il TO
have tinkered on it and charged so
much an hour, and they got less re-
suits than l. My Buick has a Strom
berg carburetor and a Bosch y. r.
A. magnetic, starts easy and runs
fine above 90 miles per hour. Under
that it loads up and chokes. 1t is
impossible to idle the motor down
when the car is not running and
knock off four successful explosions
on time. Valves on this car are ..
tx. Pistons fit tight Have tried all
size spray nozzles. Good plugs and
fine hot spark. Push rod clearance
right No carbon. No leaks in
manifold. etc. What shall 1 do?
How can a coupling be stopped
from rafting? I have tried hot wa
ter on the Ford, but It does no good.
The weather was warm when it
started to act like this.
o. A. P.
You seem to have done everything
to the Ford except overhaul the
rings. If they are worn, slots in
line, or gummed up by carbon the
suction will not be great enough to
draw in the explosion mixture.
When engine is warm the compress
sion Is better. and so it starts more
readily. We are uncertain as 10
whether your Buick engine stops
from rich mixture, lean mixture or
weak magnet spark when running
slowly IL it gives puffs of black
smoke when it stops it is rich mix
ture. If II pops back at carburetor
it is lean mixture. Note whether IL
stalls more readily when running on
battery or on magnetic, If the latter
the magnets are weak. Make sure
the spark gaps in the plugs are
small enough-about .020 TO .025
inch. This will probably give you an
idea of the trouble TO work on.
1 Cover the coupling with leather
boot filed with cup grease.
Motoring Department, The News
! Times.-The generator on my car
does not charge the battery proper
Inv. as I can see by my ammeter. At
I15 miles per hour the needle does
not indicate more than five amperes.
4 Where shall I find the trouble?
G.. 5. T.
There are many causes Of this
trouble. and it would not be advis-
able for you TO do more than look
for loose wires and terminals other
causes are dirty commutator, ill-fit-
tins. brushes. field windings, defec-
tive, faulty ammeter cut-out trou-
bles
Motoring Department, The News
/ Times have a Marion 1913 model.
II believe it has an Overland Contin-
entail motor in it.. II starts pretty
good and hits pretty good on all
four when idle. / will say also that
she hits fair on low and second
speed. But it won't pull very good
on high: in fact she will hardly get
Iup a hill She seems TO miss and
choke. I've had my Shebler car
buretor apart, and even tried DIFF
ferent one. She seems to have good
hot spark. I start on lighting bat
terry and then run on low Spi'dorf
tension magnetic. Could 1t be the
magnetic or carburetor, or leak pis-
ton or something like that? have
ground the valves a few weeks ago.
] sometimes she runs BoOA- AAAeNN -
for a few minutes, sometimes n
couple Of hours, then all at once
she is no good. She will hit on two
and three. Thanking you in ad-
vance, G. r u
Test compression by cranking en-
CINE slowly and noting II each cyl
inder gives good resistance. If COM
preston is good the carburetor may
not be properly adjusted for low
engine speed. While running on
high gear, especially up hill, en-
CINE is not running as fast as on
other speeds. Weak magnets would
cause the same trouble. Close the
spark-plug gaps slightly and see II
trouble improves. II il does the
magnets need recharging.
Motoring Department, The News
! Times have an overland car, and
noticed some time ago that there
is oil in my radiator. I put a new
gasket on the cylinder. put in new
piston rings. considered the best. and
my cylinder walls are not cracked