bers that supply a motor oil which 
smudges up the oiling systems of the 
engines. I burned out three wrist pis¬ 
ton bearings, and wore down a main 
shaft bearing before I learned about 
poor oil. I found that travelers there 
carry spare bearings for the trouble. 
My experience cost me about $75—an 
expense I didn’t dream of encountering, 
for I had had no motor trouble before. 
I learned to blow out the oiling system 
of my motor by using the tire free-air. 
This had to be done every second day 
from the neighborhood of Houston to 
western Texas. Even ordinary drain¬ 
ing of the crankcase failed to free the 
motor of the sediment, when in New 
Mexico I reached a region of honest 
motor oil. I had to wash the crankcase 
thoroughly with gasoline to be rid of 
the smudging. The trouble seems to ( 
have been mixing crude oil with motor 
oil, and burned-out bearings are a local 
Texas proposition. 
Thus one may run into regions where 
special troubles are encountered. The 
highways in the volcanic and lava 
regions cutitires to pieces. The moun¬ 
tains wear out brakes. One man I met 
ran too close to a branded colt, and the 
colt kicked in his radiator—he had to 
drive twenty miles into Aubuquerque on 
oil cooling—ten minutes’ run, then stop 
and cool off—and this on his back track. 
One may make his first trip without 
a single repair or extravagant expense. 
He may roll through without even a 
50c. puncture. He may get by for three 
or four cents a mile, all told. Such 
things happen. But a streak of hard 
luck may lay him up a week, and cost 
$100 to $300 or more. Many a tourist 
has found his car giving a half more 
mileage per gallon than ever before, due 
to the long runs, without pause. 
But in estimating good roads touring, 
the car cost will generally be more than 
around home, with an allowance for de¬ 
preciation necessary, too. When one 
returns from a tour, it pays to put 
the car through an overhauling. For 
dirt and other medium to poor roads, 
costs mount rapidly for all expenses. 
Trouble in the deserts and in the moun¬ 
tains may mean towing in, where tow¬ 
ing is a dollar a mile. If one can be 
sure what the trouble is, what part is 
broken, the service wagon of the nearest 
garage may be able to bring out and 
put in the disabled part. Often, what 
around home would cause one to send 
for help can be taken care of beside 
the trail. There was one man who tore 
out his gears. He took them out, found 
that he could use the reverse, and he 
backed three hundred miles to a garage. 
That kind of a man can go thousands 
of miles for less than another type 
could go hundreds. 
Those who care for their own cars 
travel for about half the cost that the 
garage appealers do. Thousands of 
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