CHASSIS LUBRICATION.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18550, 27 November 1925, Page 5

CHASSIS LUBRICATION.

SAVING TIME AND WEAR. Lubrication of the automobile chassis is not efficiently carried out by the majority of drivers. ' Neglect is usually due to the inaccessibility of the points requiring grease or oil. Most owners are liberal with the engine oil, but the small points under the car have to function with but casual and infrequent attention. The fitting of grease-guu connexions to modern cars certainly. leduces the discomfort of greasing the axle and brake joints. The refilling of the old-fashioned grer.se-cup system is notoriously laborious, and neglect is inevitable. * Acknowledging tho liability of the average driver to procrastinate in the matter of chassis lubrication, many designers are aiming at reducing the number of points to a minimum. Whero accessible connexions arc fitted a grease-gun can accomplish the circuit in a few minutes. An ambitious chassis-oiling system makes its appearance on t\vo or three 192.5 cars. Lubricant is carried in a central reservoir, and metal tubes convey it to all points on the frame. Pressure of the foot on a comvenientlysituated button causes a supply of oil to bo forced to every bearing A squeak from a spring shackle can thus be smothered- at the outset without taking the foot off the acceleiator. If a switch key becomes lost, the car can be started by running a wire from cither side of the ammeter to the connexion on the coil leading to the switch. Be sure not to leave this wire ou when the engine is stopped.