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• Parking's more economi-
cal if you do all the maneuvers
when the engine, steering gear,
wheel bearings, transmission"
and differential are warm. So
position your car ready :to go
when you leave it at night. Turn
off the radio and ,other accesso-
ries before backing into or pull-
ing out of a tight spot, Face 'the
car downhill when you have to
park on a hill with full tank; this
prevents any gas from spilling,
• Don't, rev the engine before
shutting it off. The extra shot of
gas floods the cylinders, dilut-
ing the oil and washing away
vital cylinder oil coajs.
• Distribute heavy loads
evenly throughout the car where
possible.
• Turn off the engine if the
car's sitting more than .a minute
at a railroad crossing, in a traffic
line—even at a long stoplight.
But under 60 Seconds, it takes
more gas to restart the car than
letting it idle.
• In a two-car family, use the
car that's already, warmed up-
wherever possible.
than it does at 20'.
• Ease off the accelerator
while approaching a red traffic
light; you'll reduce gas-wasting
idling, and the light may turn
green before you come to a
slop. 10.
• Buy your gasoline in the
early morning; the sun hasn't
had time to expand it so it's
more concentrated. During thd
day the gas will expand in your
tank, so you gain the extra vol-
ume at no cost,
Dr. Seuss it's, not, Not quite, let it warm up, to operating tein-
But the Primer on Auto perature.
sions for Home Mechanics "2. Watch the EGR yalye
(Colorado State University) is stem while you quickly increase
Snot without parallels'. engine speed to about 2500
As the name, implies, it is RPM. EaSY does it! Don't over-
indeed a primer—a basic, easy- speed the engine.
to-follow, bite-size-by-bite- "3, If the .EGR' valve' stem
size approach to the moves, the system is operating
complexities of the subject. Not satisfactorily. • •
only that—it's entertaining, "4. Take the rest of the day
too, ' off.,,.
Seuss addicts will feel right at Of course, in the event that
home with a cheerful, Seuss- valve stem doesn't move, there
like pocket-sized cartoon ghost is plenty of nuts-and-bolts baSic
called VEC (for, vehicle emis- instruction for cleaning or re
sions control). VEC flits in and placing the EGR valve.
out of the copy blocks withlap-
parent ease, coughing, sweat-
ing, donning glasses and getting
dirty when the occasion war-
rants it; „even looking dismayed'
when theconditions he explores
indicate new parts.
And so it pies., On through
this 98-page ,,paperback, VEC
relieving .the tedium' with
chatty, encouraging dialog and
simple illustrations to ift the
technological smokescreen as
the novice moves easily through
a maze of positive crankcase
ventilation systeins, thermo-
static air Cleaner systems, air in-
jection reaction systems, fuel
evaporative control systems,
exhaust gas. recirculation sys-
tems and the wonders of the cat-
alytic converter.
Here's VEC doing his thing
in this brief but typical approach
to, problem solving:
"Let's see how we can check
out the vacuum amplifier EGR
system.
"1. Watch your engine and
nearest the distributor. That
wasn't too difficult, was it?"'
As the, preface takes pains to
point out, the primer "is only
intended to provide a basic
knowledge and understanding
of emissions control' systems."
In other words, it's no substi-
tute for a service manual when
the going gets rough. But, the,
basics it covers Well.
The Primer on Auto Emis-
sioni for Home Mechanic's is
available for $8, including
mailing and handling, from
Publications Department, Na-
tional Center for Vehicle Ends
Martin's Press, $2.95),---a mon-
Unnental approach to the subject
if ever there was one.
Among Sikorsky's collec-
tion:
• Add an extra three to five
pounds of air to each tire. This
boosts tire life' and gas mileage
by reducing rolling resistance
and frictiOn. Add more when it ,
turns cold since every 10-de.
gree drop in temperature re-
duces tire ptessure by one
pound.
• When two routes are about
the same in mileage, take the
one with fewer turns to reduce
momentum loss,
• With a standard-transmis-
sion car, get into high gear as
• soon as possible, avoiding, of
course, jack-rabbit starts. On
level roads, you should be in
high before the car hits 20 mph.
Go directly from .low to high
wherever conditions permit.
• In urban areas, maintain
speeds as close as possible, to
the economical 30-40 mph
range—believe it or not, it:takes
less gas to travel at this speed
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VEC is very forgiving and% sions Control and Safety,
readily allows for goofs even Department of Industrial Sci-
when following his step-by-step ences, Colorado State Univer-
can-do. For example, this id- sity, Fort Collins, CO 80523.
vice on setting the timing (the
book preseribes using golf tees How to save gas.
to plug the disconnected vac-
There are 282 tips on how to uum hoses during the opera-
tion): save .gas in Robert Sikorsky's
"If you forget which hose 11';P-page paperback, How to
came, off which connection, fol- Get More Miles Per Gana (St.
low these steps: • ;
" I . 'With,: the engine still
idling, remove a golf tee from
one hose. Put your finger over
the end of the hose. If you feel
no vacuum or very little vac-
uum, put this hose on the con-
nection furthest from the
distributor.
"2. When you pull the golf
tee out of the hose, you should
feel a very strong vacuum. This
hose goes on the connection
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