WHAT CORRECT CLEANING MEANS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 2 June 1928, Page 15

WHAT CORRECT CLEANING MEANS.

j The modern car is now so finished that the owner can, with the least ex- | penditure of time and trouble, keep it j in fairly presentable condition as reI gards the bodywork and general ex- ! tcrior appearance. But cleaning for j appearance sake is not the whole mat--1 ter as it affects car maintenance and attention Cleaning means the freeing of important, and perhaps unseen, parts from the mud and dust and dirt picked up from the ordinary road in ordinary e.eryday use of the vehic.e. The under parts of the car do not catch the eve of the user, or even-of the ordinary passer-by. I3ut if one were tOj go down into the pit below the car one would undoubtedly be considerably surprised to find the amount of dirt and foreign matter plastered over everything, including articulative members of the car’s mechanism and con-j trol equipment. Wet mud is driven up with force and penetrates every imaginable nook and crevice of the underwork of the vehicle, causing rust of important mechanical members and a general inefficiency and tending to rapid and expensive wear of the car in small, but most important, details which must inevitably sooner or later give way or require expensive repair or replacement. A great deal of neglect takes place in regard to the underneath details of the car. Mud and water are allowed to accumulate time after time, and no great care is taken to remove the accumulated layer of dirt which, with each new encounter of wet soaks and causes rust and decay of the parts covered. In some eases this rust causes considerable difficulty when making adjustments. Thus we have the threaded adjustments of brake and other rods rusted up. In some cases the camshafts of the brakes get so rusted in their hearings as to become operative only with the greatest difficulty. When once these parts have become freed from mud which may he done by a liberal soaking and then swilling with water projected with violence from a hose, they should be worked free and dried and then should he liberally treated with paraffin oil, squirted into the bearings, on to the threads and nuts, and into every available and get-at-able nook and corner. The paraffin squirting should be continued until the oil comes out with no trace of rust. Then the whole should he dried up and good thick lubricant applied, or, if there are screw-down or pressure greasers, thick grease of good quality. The grease will protect the parts from grit and rust for quite a long time.