"ALBERT L.CLOUGH. Blocking-Ont The Clutch . THORE WHO LAY THEIR CARS UP for the winter or even leave them idle for sev weeks at a time will be saved possible trouble if they perform simple and easy operation which forms the title of this article. - "Setting" Effect Of Long Continued Pressure When surfaces are left in contact under heavy pressure for long uous periods they tend to stick together and this is true of the and fabric surfaces, which form the engaging disc faces of motor by ' clu q How Clutches Get Stuck During the time that a car is left in idleness the clutch discs are continuously pressed together by the powerful spring and after wecks or months of this pressure the surfaces often come to adhere so strongly thas pressure exerted upon the pedal will not separare them, rendering the car inopérative until they are forced apart The aceldeniz| presence " of ofl or moisture in the disc facings seems to aggravate this "freezing" or "setting" action. : Forestalling The "Frozen" Clutch To prevént this annoying occurrence. the clutch discs should be left out of contact. when a car is to ba disused for a long time and this is accomplished by disengaging the clutch and retaining it In this condition until the car is to be returned to active service, Rs The Blocking Out Operation effect this, push the clutch pedal Into the disengaged position and weasure the distance from its pad to the heel-board, cut a piece of wood to this length and leave it wedged in between the pedal and the successfully, although there may be some form of black baking enamel that might be better and present » neater appearance. The graphite paint that is used on smokestacks would probably answer fairly well and even an/ application of stove blacking would last for a while. Personally we don't see why this piping need be painted at all, as it is out of sight. this? Carburetor, sebetituting of | mrt retor, substitu! it & modern one. which has an ac.| ANOTHER OIL PUMPER device, should help 10 Hee ' N. E. K, writes: The engine of me trouble. These accel «Il my 1924 car has begun to on which were not found} p oil badly, what do you sug- the that I should do? feed, when Answes: It is not likely that the t opened and | cylinder bores of so new an sngine us tend to prevent the abnormal. | as this can be worn much out of loan 'mixture and the popping | true, but have the Gores examined for 'scores and If dAny are found, this will explain the oll pumping. If there are Do scores, examine all the rings and if any are found that have not worn bright throughout nearly their entire faces, If any of them are loose in their groo 80 . that they have excessive up and I ed for am eco-| down play or have altogether too loal running misture And this much end clearance, have new aggravates the tendency to over-| rings accurstely-fitted to take their leanness during acceleration. places hie, make sure that your 4 . ubricating system is not supplying PAINT "FOR EXHAUST PIPING a, abnormal amount of oil-splash J. E. CO, asks: What kind of|to the cylinder walls. If you should paint can be applied to the exhaust | find that all the rings seem in . piping of a car and stand up for| pretty good condition, it might be any length of time? I have several| well to substitute an oll-control timés painted this piping, but it] ring In one groove of each piston, comes off very soon. but you better not wake this Answer: Same gravhily prepara- | change without ahiaining the ap- tion 's the on ing we know' of | proval of the service station repre. that will su "the heat at all] sentatives of this make of car. i * Keep The Speedometer In Order Proper Car Maintenance Is Otherwise Hardly Possible SPEEDOMETER DERANGEMENTS are uncommon, but occasional. iy broken chain, unmeshed gears or some other accident puts it out of commission and as its failure does not interfere with running the . ear, too often its repair is put off for a long time or indefinitely post- , t use carry speed- Jonad. 0 tats very large number of cars in pt ometers are not working. 5 Valuable As A Mileage Register is perhaps to be regretted that this instrument is always known "speedometer," for its function-of measuring vehicle s; is the nportant of its duties. Its service fit an Sodometer '-- mileage recorder--is of greater value t is doubtful whether be properly cared for unless the distance traveled by It can Dr. Roy Chapman Andrews, who startled the . world a few years ago by discovering a nest of dinosaur eggs ten million years old, arrived in New York on November 9th from his Third Asiatic Expedition under the auspices of the American Museum of Natural History. Again he attributes much of the success of his 'expedition to the astounding performance of his five Dodge Brothers Motor Cars. Following is a direct quotation from an official statement by Dr. Andrews upon his return to America: The Gobi Desert in Mongolia is the most extensive undeveloped and unexplored re- gion now left in the world. Until a few years ago it was retarded by the impossibly slow traffic of camel trains, the only means of communication. \ But now it is being crisscrossed in every direction by motor cars, or, more correctly by one motor car, the Dodge. Sixty or seventy Dodge Brothers cars are making regular trips far into the interior of this vast waste, bringing out loads of sables, precious furs, wool and other products, No other car except the Dodge is found there because we have tried it out on each of our three expeditions and have had it demon- strated to our satisfaction that the Dodge is the only car that will stand up under the strain. of the roadless desert and do every- thing we ask of it. - Few people have occasion to subject their motor cars to punishment of this severity. It is reassur- ing, however, tor know that in emergencies Dodge Brothers Motor Car is built to meet the test. These dependable and sturdy qualities also ac count for the fact that more than 90% of all the motor cars Dodge Brothers have built during the past eleven years, are still in active service, M. OBERNDORFFER "ic 124 CLARENCE STREET SO \ \ 4 CONQUEROR OF Te MONGOUAN WILDS "Mileage No Guide. tan for a While many filotorists chakigs the eo {oll in oe Srankiase of the engine every miles, engineers say that mileage fos unite guide