DETAILS IN CLEANING

Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6650, 2 July 1928, Page 9

DETAILS IN CLEANING

LOOK UNDERNEATH THE CAR. The modern car is now so furnished that- the owner can, with the least expenditure of time and 1 trouble,-keep it in fairly presentable condition as regards the bodywork and general exterior appearance. But' cleaning for appearance sake is not the whole matter as it affects car maintenance and attention. Gleaning means the freeing of important and perhaps unseen parts from the mud and dust and dirt picked up ii ordinary everyday use of the vehicle. The under parts of the car do not catch the eye of tho user or even tho ordinary passer-by. But if one were to go down into the pit below the car one would undoubtedly bo considerably surprised to find tho amount of dirt and foreign matter plastered over everything, including articulative members of. the car’s mechanism and control equipment. Wot mud is" driven up with force and penetrates every crevice of the underwork of the vehicle, causing rust of important mech’anical members and a general inefficiency and tending to rapid and expensive wear of the oar in small but most important details. :

In some cases 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 cam-shafts of tho brakes get so rusted in their bearings as to become operative only with tho greatest difficulty. When once these parts have become freed from mud, which may be done by a liberal soaking and then swilling with water projected with violence from a hose,, they should bo worked free and dried, ; and then should be liberally treated with paraffin oil squirted into tho bearings. The paraffin oil comes out with no trace of rust. Thon tho whole should bo dried up, and good thick lubricant applied.