Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-10-17
Aim at Longer Useful
Life in Automobiles

Longer useful life in automobiles.
! Greater number of miles for them to
be driven by their first owners. Re-
, moval of annoyances to motorists
from squcaks and rattles. Elimina-
| ton of worries about fabrication.
Reduction of time owners must give
| up their cars to service stations.
Solution of the used car problem by
making the trading in of cars less
! frequent.
| These things are aimed at by the
Packard Motor Car Company, it an
| nounces. in a number of mechanical
! improvements which new owners of
! both the Packard Eight and Packard
| Six for the last two months or more
| have been finding on their cars.
| Chief among the mechanical ad-
| ditions to both cars are an oil recti-
| fer and chassis lubricator. The
! first reduces motor wear by pre-
venting the dilution of crank case
| oil. The second gives insurance
| against wear of other parts by re-
moving the drudgery and annoyances
attached to greasing and thus fore
ing fabrication of chassis parts.
Constant efforts TO obtain more
and more gallons of gasoline from
,, which gasoline long ago would have
risen to a cost, seriously affecting
Americas enjoyment of the automo-
bile have been accompanied by a
! necessary lowering of gasoline
quality. Piston wear and crank case
dilution were unknown only a few
years ago. They came into being
when the automobile began to as
sumo such an important part in the
country's business and social life,
making it imperative to obtain more
gallons of gasoline from each barrel
of crude Gil to meet the demand
without greatly increased cost.
Lower grades of gasoline leave in
the cylinders water, sulphuric acid
and other unburnable products which
ind their way into the engine lubri-
cant down the walls of the cylinders.
Mixing with the crank case oil. they
rob 1t of its lubricating qualities and
even the most useful attentioneto oil
pressure and frequent draining of
the crank case cannot entirely take
care of the trouble. Motor wear
results quickly from the dilution of
crank case oil
The Packard oil rectifier IS said
to solve the problem by taking the
NNtSi anu olicI piOuuCIS lett from
the low grade gasoline in each
cylinder after each explosion from
the sides of the cylinder and driving
them out of the oil The rectifier
acts as a small still which distills
out the impurities and returns a per-
rect lubricant to the crank case.
Even when a motor car owner
gives up his automobile for a day
each month to have the chassis
fabricated, making nearly two weeks
a year he is forced to be without
his car, he cannot always be sure
that each spring bolt and every other
part needing fabrication is getting
Its full quota of oil necessary to keen
it from wearing.
With the new Packard chassis
lubricator.Na built-in part OF the car
itself, Packard engineers say It is
only necessary for the driver of
car to pull out knob on the dash
and let go of it to insure the proper
fabrication of practically every NOV
ing part on the chassis. Six points
not reached require attention only
once year. Ingenious meterine de-
vices exactly fix and maintain the
amount of oil going to each mart
it Is asserted the device has made
the arduous job of greasine a car
so easy that 1t now can be done nv
woman in her party gown. ~