HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1921-10-20, Page 7f...w.o•.'+-+,�-ter-, �,.�-�.v , _. , i. :.
HOW TO LOOK FO R CAR '1'ROUBTE
•Uncber ordinary circumstance's the in a similar manner, openiing all Pet -
man or woman who goes'•aut looking! oocles except on the cylinder being
for trouble has no difficulty in finding tested, See if the compression is
it. But this general rule finds an practically equal in all cylinders.
exception in the lauttonrobil!iet, The If one c ib der has very we;11i or
driver of a motor :car probably hasno compression the trouble 13 apt to
his ~'hare of troubles, but he often be in the exhaust valve. Exarine the
has :a mess of atii,e locating them. pusih.rod to see if there is clearance.
When he starts out lin eearch of the between it and the valve when toe'
cause of a ,bit of trouble, it scents to
be a very demon for eludierg `the
searcher.
Trouble will hide in, a tiny piieice
of carbon lodged: under a valve or be-
tvveen "npiar'k plugs, or in a wire that
:has ja'r;red lo'ose,or in an interrupter
po' t:rt;" a piston ring, a gas piiPe or
what not. The Motorist learns early
in the game • iahpt °the most insignifi-
cant things are tremenclo sily impor-
tant at tines.
Yet most troubles incident tooper-
ating a car mn:aiy' really be located qu'i'te
quickly if the driver 'goes !after them
in a slyc terns blel fashion instead of wan-
dering air seedy abottt the engine and
o'Jhier'+arts, as is 'often the eastern of
the amateur owner, The hardest thing
"a driver has bo .do when the engine
stops or ,acts up is to divest (himself
of the Idea that he knows precisie ly
what the trouble is. Often he is ,surre
he can fix tine trouble to just 'about
one minute, and he putters around. a
sang tianre beetle he makes nzlp his
twins that possibly .after all his cock-
surness is not well founded,
The (best way to proceed in hunting
trouble is to •sibarrt without any pre-
•eon+zeived ideas as to what the trouble
may be end f1olf ow a ,system which is
in. reality a process sof elimination.
'Remember that to .start a ,gasoline
.engine three things are neoerssary-.
gasoline, comeeiesuiion and a spark part
the right time. Remember, also, that
to keep it running it is neoes+sary to
have waiter for cooling, unless it be
an air-cocesed engine, :and -oil for
lubrication.
What To Do First.
If the ,engine ,stops on the road and
pressing the starter pedal fails to
start it, cit if one or two cylinders
miss fire, the first thing -to do is to
.get the crank out orf the tool kit and
,crank over the engine. If, with the
s
•
valve is supposed to be closed: If
there is, the valve must be lifted out
and the valve and seat inspected for
carbon. Som.etime's a piece of carbon
will lodge om+.the valve seat and, due
to the 'hammering .of the valve, will
become fastened to the varve or seat.
For temporary repair it can generally
be scraped off with a knife, and the
valve can be ground in on reaching
the garage.
Valve Head May Break.
If the tirouble is not in the exhaust
valve it might be in the inlet valve.
In. isoane types of engines the valve
head may break off and get into the
Cylinder and- when the piston. •comes
up punch a, hole in the piston head, A
pet -cock may lee loose so. that it will
jar open !sufficiienitly'to affe `t the com-
pression and 'Se cause the Cylinder to
mists fire. These troubles are usually
confined to one cylinder and not to
the whole engine.
The � as'odsne hould be in
T g sinspected
next. Is there any gasoline in the
bowl of the carburetor? ' Is there
gasoline in thetank? Is the •shut-off
valve in the line leading to the ear-
buretor 'open? Doee the manifold
leak?
Do not adjust the carburetor+. If
the engine has been running it is
practically ,certain that the carburetor
is niot out of .adjusitnient. Inspect the
intake pipe or manifold. Then put a
tablespoonful of gasoline in each
cylinder and crank over the engine.
If this runs the engine for a few revo-
lutions the trouble is probably in the
gasoline system and leaves but the
spray nozzle, which may have dirt
lodged in it, ,or the auxiliary air valve
stuck as the remaining cause of
trouble.
The ignition should be inspected
next. Test for a,:spark by taking the
wire off any plug, crank engine with
witch on. Spark should jump to plug.
4:re batteries run dowry? Does the
vibrator:(if any) buzz. Is tinier
clean? Does timer rotor make good
contact? Are any wires loose, burned,
wet, broken, 'or s+hoet-cireulited? Are
spank rpilugs dean and are poi'n'ts one-
fiftieth of an. inch, apart? -Does mag-
neto • armature revolve? Is safety
spark gap clean? Are interrupter
points clean and adjusted right? h Do
all !brushes, make good contact? is
distributor .olean? Ie distributor rotor
pose, broken er making poor contact?
an
heti magneto wires.
If the trouble has still evaded the
eaircher• ,after all these performances,
ettez take it for granted that it will
of be f alma by further .investigations,
'wept with the hell' of an expert.
rom 'some service station.
gears in neutral, the engine cranks
over hard, it indicates a lack of lubri-
cating oil, or a lack of water, which
bus allowed the engine to reach a
tenvpenrture where the lubricant fails
to perform its work. If 'the engine
turns over faerly easy, it is not neces-
,sary to look for oil or water trouble.
The next test ehould be for corn-:
preseion, .. If, the driver is .not exper-
ien Celd aria
unable 1» tell simply
pby
r
the nes,stance of the s'ta'ting erank
whether eachcy+lerderr 'has compres
l
chem,, ha ' ihou?+3 open all the pet -cocks
except .on one. eylisider and turn the •C
-crank two revolutions, noting if there,
is .a rcer.relaraae of one-quarter of a s
revo u e'en i+n thae complete tunas. ,b
Con pie.:.=i:,.n occurs only on the one n
'stzicde of the piston in the four-stroke e
cycle. Ee:c'h cyl•imdler should be tested f
THE ARCTIC NORTH
OF THE DOMINION
I ION
NOT THE BARREN WASTE
MANY PICTURE IT.
Region of Latent Wealth and
Potentiality Awaiting the
Coming of the Settler.
In the lamentable ignorance which
exists in many other countries re-
garding Canada, her wealth and re-
aoifrces, and particularly on her cli-
mate, hosts of strangers who know not
the great land might be inclined to in-
clude under the appellation the great-
er part; if not the whole, of the Do -
Minion, unheeding the fact that there
Must be a summer of blazing glory be-
hind Its consistent world successes in
wheat growing, a braoing spring and
fall to commence and terminate a
lengthy agricultud;al season. There
are doubtless, too, misconceptions. on
the. mighty Yukon territory where for
many years .a ciilization has existed,
Modern in its every phase, and pro-
greesing along the same lines as areas
farther youth.
13ut there is an Arctic north 90
Qanada, by which is indicated that
territory adjacent to, and inside of,
#she. Arctic circle, a region where only
r uperficial exploration has been car-
ried on and for this reason is hedged
about with a thousand misconceptions
Fuad false impressions. It is indeed a
}'egiou of cold winters, but also one
p1 excleedingiy belght waren summers,
s' 11 is not the barren waste popular
pinion has pictured it, but : one of
i 1xurlant verdure and extensive vege
,•,ration,. It has at wealth of natural re-
ieetirces aims other potentialities, a de-
l. hided. future asset of the Doniiniott, tit- c
ati
� on a l interest.taresibeing
1ortic
rlarly d
4birtered on thls northern territory, of lr
Panache -it is now appropriate to look
into its features.
Nothing' has aroused such general c
and widespread intoreat sit, Canada for
a considertrhlelength of time as the r
discovers', taut still, of oil in the Mac.] s
kenzie River basin, within the Arctic
circle. The capital of many countries
is being invested- in 'that area; in-
vestors and prospectors are flocking
thither by every means of transporta-
tion; railway and river steamer ser-
vices are projected; , mushroom .set-
tiements are springing up all over its
expanse. There is every reason to
suppose that the strike is not merely
an isolated flow, indications all over
the area being' of the same favorable
nature, and there is every confidence
that the many companies carrying out
prospecting and drilling will meet with
the sante success.
The MacKenzie River Basin.
Knowledge of the mineral resources
of the Mackenzie River basin is very
imperfect and limited, but sufficient
of 'a gpecifie nature has
been"undertaken to have encountered
many deposits of lignite coal and iron
ore, which for exploitation are de-
pendent upon transportation facilities•
and agricultural development. Lignite
of fair quality occurs in'the banks of
the Mackenzie: at Fort Norman in• a
bed about five feet thick, and iron ore
has been found on the Gravel River
about four miles above Fort Norman,
Another occurrence was . observed
further north on: the Mackenzie about
thirty miles sotith.of the Arctic circle:
,`iron ore occurs. in the Bear Mountain
section in company with deposits of
liguate coal,
it may sound a,bsurcl to speak of
agriculture here, but one might sug-.
gest to memory the sceptics who said
that wheat would never be grown in
the •Canadian North-West. The amaz-
ing feet might also be pointed out that
as far back as 1876 wheat grown by
Roderick Mackenzie, brother of the
great, explorer, at Fort Chipewyan,
which is to all iutents and purposes
within the Arctic circle, carried off the
first prize at the Centennial Exposi-
tion'at Philadelphia. This was in an
era prior to the plains of the south
oniing into prominence as „cereal pro -
=ere and bearing off most of the
rises for the North American conti-
netit,
Tlhoug.h fur, at the #'resent time,
onstitutes practically the sole come
nercial pt'oduct of this • region, there
s' every reason to suppose that at
eine future time, when the n7illions
aiid th.i
e
worst is yet to corp BRIT IN " Deadly LATEST
ll „
a War Cusses.
BIGGEST LEVIATHAN Changed to Perfume
of acres to the south of It, `as yet u
Productive, have been brought and
the plough, this section will make
name for itself in agriculture. The
is no reason why it should not. At
present•development of an agricultur
nature is limited to the gardens of th
fur -trading posts located about 16
miles apart along the Mackenzi
These gardens, however, demonstrat
that potatoes and various other vege
tables can be grown successfully a
far north as the Arctic circle. •Th
surprisingly luxuriant ' growth tha
wild grasses attain around the tradin
posts suggests the possible future de
velopment of stock raising. The excel
lent herd of cattle maintained by th
Roman Catholic Mission at Fort Smit
for litany years, illustrates in th
clearest manner the value of the wit
grasses for grazing and the adapta
bility of the country to running o
shock.
er
a
re
al
e.
: