Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-05
MILADY'S MOTORING
BY FREDERICK G. RUSSELL.

Nowadays q popular daughter Is one
blocks Of his home.
1t is entirely natural that a woman
should think things are all set for big
whirl at the wheel after the crankcase
has been treated to filling Of new oil,
but in Winter at least this treatment
is no license to hit 1t up on the road.
Engineers recognize what Is known aS
"oil lag" which Is just another way Of
saying that the oil pressure does not
build up fast enough to give the engine
the protection IL needs when It sud-
denly attains speed. There is nothing
to fear If the acceleration is more mod
crate, and women who want TO give
their cars helping hand viii go on
this theory.
Another point to consider Is that the
fresh oil, being heavier than the old
diluted oil drained OF, makes the en-
CINE sitter in starting for few days.
This is q bit strenuous for an over
worked battery.
One thing q woman can do to help
the mechanic who Is working on her
car is to see that the doors are closed
when he is crawling around underneath.
An open door and colliding head are
not conducive to safety or good work.
I recently suggested to q woman that
il she wanted to save her battery dur"
ing the Winter she would find 1t prac-
tical to switch of the headlights when
cranking at night. She followed the
plan-so she thought-but the battery
went dead. seemed to be In for an
Fortunately she demonstrated her
idea of switching on the headlights.
and that saved the day. All she did
was to tilt the headlight beams down
ward, which, Of course, doesn't result in
anything but q different focus OF the
lights.
When the hand brake doesn't hold
and the car Is on q hill 1t Is easy
enough to crank II you will simply press
the foot brake pedal with the left foot
and touch the starter button with the
right one. With the engine started,
Just transfer the feet back to the usual
positions.
Many times have seen women al
low their parked cars to coast into q
collision simply because they made the
mistake of pressing the clutch pedal
down to the floor when the machine
was in gear to compensate for q hand
brake that did not hold well. It sug-
gests following the rule that whenever
getting into car that is held by engine
compression the first thing to do is press
on the foot brake. After that the
clutch pedal can be pressed down with
safety.
The hywheel Is one OF those impcr-
tant units Of an automobile that minds
its own business so effectively very few
man or woman drivers ever stop to give
it a moments thought. Yet IL helps
to get more out Of an automobile, in
comfort and safety, to know the n.y.
wheels function.
1t serves largely as the engines bal
1t helps to carry the pistons over the
resistance of compression. This is too
technical for digestion before going
out for a spin In the car, but It may
shed some light on the subject TO point
out that without q hywheel o gasoline
engine would FIRE and stop and get mo-
where.
In aviation the propeller serves as
the nywheel. The greater the number
importance Is attached to the hywheel
A one-cyltnder engine has to have quite
a large, heavy dywheel as compared
with the one In your niulti-cylinder
motor.
The nywheel also furnishes smooth
ness to the action Of the engine, espe-
cially ct low speeds. Besides Il yirtu-
ally tncloses the clutch plates In the
usual design and serves a. the connect
ing link between engine and the rest of
the drive line. Around the fywheel
there Is Q strip Of gear teeth with which
the starter gear rneshes when you 60
the process of cTAnkinR
An observer tells Of having stood on
. suburban street crossing and seeing
three woman drivers within Is minutes
proceed to take the right Of way when
the red light was set against them. |
In each instance there were no other
cars in sight.
This may shed some light on the