South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-03-09

Motor Department-win you kind
" explain in your Motor Department
how / can obtain some repairing
knowledge without paying? Is there
some place or repairing shop where
can give them two hours work
daily for nothing? 1 can do that
from three to five every afternoon.
p. c.
II will be difficult to find an open
| ing of the kind you desire, as man
coming in for only two hours a day
is not Of much help. unless he lisa
good repair man. However, it will
do no harm to try.
/ Motor Department:-I own
! slightly used 1911 National, model
! 40. which may be termed odd" but
of good material. The engine has
four cylinders, five and a half inch
/ stroke. dual ignition, and an old H.
& n. carburetor The engine Is hard
TO start (by cranhng) and often re-
| quires printing, especially after
standing, say two hours summer or
winter. New piston rings are 1000
miles old, compression is good and
| the hot air line to the carburetor is
attached. Acceleration is slow, es-
! pecially when going from intermedi-
ate into high speed, and in high
speed up TO about eighteen miles
per hour. After this speed is attain
ed the engine responds fully. Dur
ing acceleration the engine at times
skips badly and sometimes seems to
| choke, especially when negotiating
small hills, losing power repidly,
thereby causing the change of gears
TO intermediate and sometimes to
/ low speed while other four cylinder
cars easily negotiate the hill on high.
DO you think the car needs q new
carburetor like the Rayfield. or tho
/ Stewart system, or both? The gaso-
line tank is under tho front seat and
the feed is by gravity. II. G.
In all probability the trouble Is in
the carburetor, as 1911 carburetors
were not designed to handle the
present low grade fuel. Have an UP
to date carburetor installed by all
means.
Motor Department Il would like
&c get information regarding q diff
| ticulty that am having with my car,
and such information you may give
in your Motor Column" VIII be
greatly appreciated. Ny car seems to
have plenty Of power and will run
along very smoothly, when all at
once she will stop and the engine
will cease running and tibet lights go
out. This also happens when the
/ lights are not being used. ! do not
| have any difficulty IN starting the
car again and It seems to be recharg-
| ing ell right. The car is O 1914 Lex
ington four cylinder. Thanking you
In advance for any information you
may give me in regard to this mat
ter 7 remain, z. NJ.
Evidently a break IN the battery
wire, either to ground or switch. GO
over II carefully, cleaning and tight
ening the contacts. Look especially
for corroded battery terminals.
These should be thoroughly cleaned
and covered with cup grease.
Motor Departmental have a
Chevrolet $50, 1917, which I have
operated for twenty months without
any trouble until short time ago,
when It blew a fuse. I put In an
other one and found It would burn
all right as long as the engine was
not running. but the moment I start
the engine the fuse blows. I cannot
attribute It TO a short, for in such
case the fuse would blow without
the engine running. I have had q
battery man go over the system, but
he failed TO locate the trouble. I will
greatly appreciate your helping me
out. Sometimes when pull on the
DINNER only the left hand light
burns brightly and the right hand
light does not show up at all. When
that happens I can operate the car
with the one headlight with only the
DINNER, but II acts a good deal like
a Ford then-it brightens up with
the engine speed and dim when the
engine IL lahoring. I. NJ.
Just a short circuit seems TO be
the cause. Something makes contact
when engine In started or while run
ming that does not touch at other
times. The other trouble suggests a
slow short circuit which puts out the
light. but does not blow the fuse. II
the trouble cannot be located other
wise rewriting seems the only way
out.
Motor DePartment:-Please let me
know why have trouble meshing
my gears OF low speed. 1 used &c
wait a second or two after throwing
out clutch and could then mesh