The Washington herald., 1921-11-06
MOTOR ENGINE OVERHEATS;
MOTORIST FINDS REMEDY
Puffs of Steam Emit from Radiator As Car Be-
comes Troublesome.


The sixth cylinder. which take IL
was No. .. never Aired. Nevertheless
We were much pleased at getting
going at all and gingeriy backed the
car down the long lane from the
farmers well back onto the nam
road and headed toward Fond du
Lac.
We had nothing In mind to do
at Fond du Lac except 70 see what
the trouble was. and " Il seemed
At all possible, to make the neces-
sary repairs. However. as We had
q certain definite amount Of work
to clean up at various points In
the state within the week. we were
urged 10 make these repairs as
simple and as quickly as possible
so that our little trip would not
be spoiled.
As we motored along sIowIy-we
thought IL best not TO attempt any
speedwork, besides which present
ly We ran Of the nne roadway
onto loose gravel, which left some
thing to, be desired in the way Of
absolute smoothness-we talked
the matter over. The cylinder head
is separable and the inlet ports are
carried In IL. II seemed that per-
haps tightening down on the cyIin-
der hold-down bolts might prove
effective In reducing the leak which
probably resulted from a crack in
the head casting or from a dam
aged gasket At least n was
worth trying.
When We got into Fond du Lac
we tried II. but without beneficial
result We removed the valve
mechanism cover which Is attached
to the cylinder head casting by
means of two knurled screws and
were surprised to see how much
we could take down on each of the
many nuts used to attach the head
casting to the cylinder block But
even at that the water leak con-
tinued and, the motor having cool
ed on in the meantime, we had the
devils, own job starting II up
again.
1t looked very much. as IL we
would have to pull of the head
and get 1t welded, IL there was
welder in town. or else get a
new head casting from the distri-
butter. We looked all around for
the welder and could not find one,
and when we got to the distributor,
as culk would have II. he had no
head casting which would fit our
job. 1t looked decidedly as II we
were out OF luck.
Then ] thought OF radiator COM
pound. / have had some experience
with this preparation and have
found that It seems always TO dc
the trick. l recollect that during
the winter OF 1917-191S-that very
bad winter had the misfortune e
let my house-heating boiler go dry
. with the result that / cracked the
fire pot. The crack was so large
that the water simply poured int
J the furnace and put out the FIRE
! And because of the war and tho
railroad tie-up and the billiards.. Il
was impossible to get another fr,
. pot for love or money.
Radiator compound saved tha'
day. We poured in a gallon, filleC
up with warm water, started 8
fire and that boiler has been hold
Ing both steam and water eve
since without the slightest trouble
II was the most remarkable demon
stration of the effectiveness o
radiator compound that l have eve
, seen.
We decided to try II out in GU
present emergency. We drove al
over Fond du Lac and finally fount
place where they stocked it-bu
they had only the Ford size and W,
figured we needed more than that
So we took two OF the Ford can
at rs cents apiece and poured boil
, into the radiator. We did not shu
off the motor. We had had to,
much trouble starting IL the las
time so we decided to keep II 60
ing until after the compound go
in Its good work.
. In elss than fve minutes tn
water leak stopped. We though
\ perhaps the radiator supply ha,
run low and reflled. But the leal
was cured. We started to driv,
and found that the car was run
ming on FIVE cylinders quite regu
, larly and before we had gone .
, quarter of a mile. all six wer,
working.-A. A. n.