DID YOU LUBRICATE?

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 180, 14 July 1928, Page 14

DID YOU LUBRICATE?

UNDERNEATH THE CAR» The modern car is now so furnished that the owner can, with the least expenditure of time and trouble, keep it in fairly presentable condition as regards the bodywork and gen oral exterior appearance. But cleaning for appearance sake is not tlu< whole matter as it affects car maintenance and attention. Cleaning means the freeing of important and perhaps unseen parts from the mud dust and dirt picked up into ordinary everyday use of the vehicle. The under parts of the car do not catch the eye of the user or even the ordinary passer-by. But If one were to go down into the pit below the car one would undoubtedly bo considerably.surprised to find the amount of dirt and foreign matter plastered over everything, including articulative members of the car’s mechanism

and control equipment. Wet mud is driven up with force and penetrates every crevice of the underwork of the vehicle, causing rust of import ant mechanical members and a general inefficiency and tending to rapid and expensive wear of the effr in small but most important details.

In some cases this rust causes considerable difficulty when making adjustments. Thus we have the threaded adjustments to brake and other rods rusted up. In some cases tin: cam-shats of the brakes get so rusted in their bearings as to become operative only with the greatest difficulty. When once these parts have become freed from mud, which may bo done by a liberal soaking and then swilling with water projected with violence from a hose, they should l.e worked free and dried, and then should be liberally treated with paraffin oil squirted into the bearings. The paraffin oil comes out with no trace of rust. Then the whole should be dried up, and good thick lubricant applied.