Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1922-11-24
FABRICATION

Motorists who have driven cars for one year or more begin to realize that they are more or less like woman; they will stand just so much abuse and neglect before they begin to s's- sert themselves. How many times have you ridden in your friends car, only to remark: Gosh, George, but our car sure runs fine" and wish that your old boat would move like his. ...:. ss,u. .
 If, you only stop to think, you will find that George is the type of fel- low that usually pays some attention to his car. When you drop around to his house on Saturday afternoon or Sunday morning, you will often find George out in the well-known Gasoline Alley with Walt and Doc, giving things the once-over.
 That peculiar bunch know that there is something to driving a car besides filling the gas tank, slipping a couple of quarts of oil in the crank case and stepping on the gas in the great outdoors.
 Have you pulled off the front wheels lately to see if those wheel bearings have sufficient grease to properly lubricate? If not, there will be couple of bearings that will give you a lot of trouble, and the trouble usually happens miles from a garage or service station.
 Have you examined the seldom thought-of universal joints or the transmission and differential These parts of a car are possibly neglected more than any other part of the car, for they are out of sight, and usually out of sight is out of mind, but when they have to remind you of your neg lect, they often do it to the tune of expense, which shinlmies you loose from the possession of a few iron men that you hate to part with. e
 Every car is equipped with oil or grease cups which have been put there for a definite purpose of feed ing fabrication to the bearing which they supply, and they have to be fill ed regularly to properly function.
 Oil and grease cups on the spring shackle boIts and steering knuckle yokes should be attended to weekly.
 Universal joints should be greased every five hundred to one thousand. miles, for they usually throw out the grease due to centrifugal force.
 The, transmission and differential should be cleaned out and fresh grease applied every five thousand miles, and in a great many cases oftener, on ac- count of leakage of these parts. Then again, 90 per cent of the rattles and noise in a car can be traced to the driveshaft and rear axle due to faulty fabrication. Did it ever occur to you?
 Now, the greater majority of mot orists know what to grease and oil. Now comes the question, "What kind of oil and grease should I use?" And in answer to that, you know the best is none too good.
 First, do not use cheap oil or cheap grease, for if you bought your cloth ing on the same basis you would look like tramp, and even your friends would pass you up. There are plenty of places where good oil and good grease can be obtained, and those places usually have been in business for great many years. Consequent ly they know what you need for your car. You did not buy your car in the five-and-ten-cent store, so why buy your oil and grease there? Oiling and greasing stations are springing up along the main roads and they are manned by men who know that particular part of the bus mess, so if the job is too dirty to do yourself, "Let George do it," and your car will run like Georges.