OWNERS’ PROBLEMS

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 13244, 21 January 1941, Page 7

OWNERS’ PROBLEMS

QUERIES FROM READERS Q. I have purchased a voltage regulator which has remote control to be mounted on the instrument panel. When using such a deAfice should I adjust the generator for ihaximum output?—G.A. . If you want to burn out the generator, yes. The one on this car is not air-cooled. I Avonld advise setting the third brush of the generator for an output of 22 amperes. Then cut dOAvn the output with the rheostat on the instrument panel Avlien maximum output is not needed. Q. The petrol gauge on my car is a pressure type. I notice it reads low when I start out in the morning. Is there anything to do to remedy this?—N.L.E. A. Air may be leaking into the gauge line and I would suggest you check this to make sure. With this type of gauge it is normal to be low alter the car has been standing, particularly in cold Aveather. Q. I have noticed that my distributor rotor arm is pitting. Is this normal? If not, avouM you be good enough to adAdse me whether it is occasioned by mal-adjustment of the contact-breaker points or by some other cause? My 8 lx.p. car has covered only 4,500 miles.—^“W-rJ.” A. —Within a feAV hundred miles of a distributor being put into serAdce burning can be noted at the tip of the rotor arm electrode, as is natural in Anew of the very highvoltage spark that takes place between the rotor electrode and the fixed electrode in the cover. After this initial burning, however, the condition remains practically stationary for many thousands of miles, and it is not necessary to fit a new rotor arm until the gap between the end of the rotor electrode and the fixed electrode in the co\er has widened appreciably. There is not likely to be any need to worry regarding the condition of the rotor unless, of course, the pitting is excessive and has appreciably widened the gap.