BALLOON TYRES
PUNCTURE TROUBLE GOOD JACKING HINT ‘‘Headlight” is indebted to Mr. Williams, of the Northern Automobiles, Ltd., Auckland, for the following suggestion. The idea concerns the ease with which a car equipped with balloon tyres can be jacked up. Anyone who has undertaken to change a balloon tyre on the road has usually experienced considerable difficulty in employing the ordinary jack furnished with the car.
Much of this is due to the difficulty of placing the jack under the axle with the small road clearance available when a balloon tyre is flat. It is also due to the extremely long lift that is necessary in order to raise the car high enough to remove the tyre. By using the method described the operation becomes quite an easy job. The spare wheel with tyre is first removed from the carrier and is placed flat on the ground. directly ahead of the flat tyre which is to be changed. The car is then driven slowly forward so that the flat tyre rides up on the spare. In this raised position of the flat tyre, it is easy to place the ordinary jack under the axle, and very little effort is required to jack the wheel sufficiently higher so that-the flat tyre can be removed. The spare is then removed from under the wheel and placed in position for service.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 88, 5 July 1927, Page 12
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228BALLOON TYRES Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 88, 5 July 1927, Page 12
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