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About Grants Pass daily courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1919-1931 | View Entire Issue (June 21, 1924)
SATrnhAT», J1 VT 21. lrt*. G TU VT A PARA Oin.V romTFTl p You Want Your Car to Act Right and Look Right Profit by the suggestions of these Auto Doctors who have built their business on the foundation of service. The best of cars need repairs at all times. Have that defect fixed now and go on your vacation in comfort. Why Worry ? When you can have those loose and squeaky wheels repaired in a few min utes at a very low cost and avoid a breakdown when you are miles away from any help? That is just one of our specialities. We do all kinds of first-class auto repair ing, welding, lathe work, reboring, etc., and we do it right, too! « Ament's Auto Machine Shop Day and Night Towing Day Phone 113 J Night Phone 252 R Just a few exceptionally Service with a Smile Washing and Greasing a Specialty Night and Day A NEW TOP ON THE OLD CAR When your ear goes on a rampage, don’t try to fight it. Arc you safe out in a raiijstorni with your old top or is there a chance that its leaks may spoil more clothes than a new top would cost? There there is the matter of your ear's np]>earance. Why not drop in and let us show you how easily and economically we van put a fine new top on your car. Let us ealm it down for you Smith And the prices are right Garage Phone 65 C. A. Winetrout The Auto Top Man Ford Sales and Service SOFT TIRES ARE VERY EXPENSIVE Proper Inflation Will Give More Miles and Decrease Gasoline Consumption. • — (By KRWIN GREER, . President Greer College of Automotive Autotnot Engineering. Chicago). Tires form a very important part of ■n automobile, this point being brought to our realization when on u beautiful day for motoring we spend an hour or so struggling on a hot road rectify ing the wrongs of a sadly neglected or badly used tire, involving the loss of a perfectly good temper. Don’t drive your car wttfi tires that are soft or not properly inflated or you will be well started on the road to tire trouble with the following re sults to your tires, and your pocket book : Sliding of the tires on the rim when the brakes are applied suddenly, causing the tube to tear around the valve stem. Tread loosening from the fabric due to arc of bend in transverse direction to arc of citcumference. Tires puncture much easier when not properly Inflated. Tire heating which destroys th® valuable chemical elements necessury to both rubber and fabric. Cracking of the side walls and rim cutting and in some eases pinching of the tube. When tires nre not properly Inflated they create a drag and the car is slow to pick up speed or if on the front wheels steering Is made harder. The engine has to work much harder, gaso line consumption is greater and many other effects make themselves known. Special Sale Tires and Tubes Effective Until July 5th Fabric Tires $6.00 up Cord Tires $8.50 up A Shraeder Tire Guage Free with each of the first 20 Savage Tires sold, and a tube repair kit free with each of the first 24 Fisk Tires sold. New Stock and Low Prices RUSSELL’S Pacific Redwood Service Station Across the River * Now in Stock We can handle anything from a greasing job to a Complete Overhauling Job. GEORGE BERRY > > > > Good Used Cars I Turns Out of Course. Did you ever drive your cur along a smooth ror.d with one of the front tires soft? You noticed the car had a ten dency to turn off Its course In the di i rection of the side on which the soft tire was. The cause of that Is this: When a tire becomes soft It de creases the overall diameter of tbe wheel, that is, If the tire becomes soft enough to allow the axle to settle one- fourth inch on one side, you have in reality a wheel that Is one-half inch smaller than the wheel on the oppo site end of the axle, therefore the smaller wheel must travel faster or turn a greater number of revolutions to travel the same distance as the other, or leave its true course of di rection. The other wheel with the tire properly inflated on the other end of the axle, being larger, travels a greater distance in the same number of revo lutions, and if not Joined to the car It would follow the smaller wheel off Its true course and gradually turn In a circle around the smaller wheel, using the latter for an axis around which to rotate. But both wheels being firmly fastened to the car, they are forced to travel in the true course of the car; thus the smaller wheel (or the one with the soft tire) is forced to travel the same dlstnnce as the larger one, thus causing more wear on both. Keep Well Inflated. So keep your tires well inflated but not over-inflated as one is as bad as the other. Be sure to keep them In flated to the pressure that is specified on the side of the tire by the manu facturer, and you will get more mile age and decrease gasoline consumption and have a smooth running car with less trouble on the road. Method for Polishing Dulled Metal Fittings After the car Is first brought out of Its winter stornge, the metal fittings are usually dull and tamlshed. They may be restored by the following method : First apply a weak solution I of oxalic acid and water to the tar nished surfaces by means of a cloth wrapped around a stick. Any acrid accumulations are then loosened and I may be cleanly removed by sample wiping. After this ordinary metal pol ish used for brass work should be ap plied with a linen cloth and the polish ing carried out with soft woolen cloths. If the surfaces are slow to respond to the polishing, try a good carriage mak er’s polish made ns follows : Twenty parts of whiting, one part of soda, one- quarter part of citric acid. This com pound Is moistened with water fort using. Sales books—Courier office. FASHIONS HAVE CHAN GED IN VARIOUS WAYS Here's a picture that tells a complete story in Itself. The autocar of 1890 was certainly a snappy thing, featured by the rope tires that were guaranteed not to suffer from puncture. Short wheel base was another bright Idea while the motive power was hidden under the seat. Overloading It Harmful Occasional Spray Will to All Trucks and Tires Keep Radiator Bright Through serving as a sieve through Here is how a practical tire man ex which dust Is constantly drawn by plained why overloading a truck is a the suction of the fan, the radiator fault for which the owner or operator core becomes prematurely old tn ap gives up profit pearance, particularly as viewed from Say the full pack of a soldier on the the front Often one will see an oth march weighs 40 pounds, the day's erwise spotless car with a dull or march Is about 30 miles. Carrying 40 splotched radiator core. pounds this distance equals 1,200 By the occasional use of a pump pound-mlles of work. spray, the front of any car may be Now suppose the soldier was given kept solid black, aluminum, or any a 60-pound pack. To do the same desired color with little attention or amount of pound-mlles of work he expense. The spray Is filled with need travel only 20 miles. liquid lamp black, or with ordinary But it is doubtful If he could carry paint of the desired color, thinned with such a load when 40 pounds had al equal parts of gasoline. The gasoline ready been proved to be his limit. lightens the coat applied, and assists It Is just this way with truck tires. its penetration back Into the crevices Properly loaded, they will do their Job In the core which cannot be reached well. Overloaded, they soon break with a brush. By operating the pump down. handle the paint spray is distributed evenly over and into the surface of the radiator core, and a naw effect is Fir at Religioua Paper secured in a few minutes. A place of The first religious newspaper ever wrapping paper should be placed be leaned was the Herald of Gospel Lib hind the radiator to protect the on- erty, which was published by Ellas iiso—Motor. ________ Smith of Portsmouth, Ji. la 1800,
