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The carburetor is one of the most important parts in automobile engines. The carburetor ensures that there is the right mix of gasoline and air in the engine so that the engine functions correctly. Too much air or too much gasoline in the mixture causes damage to the engine, so a carburetor is very important in all stages of the engine functioning. Carburetors are generally found in old cars and in small engine automobiles like 2-wheelers, lawn mowers, and chain saws. All new cars use the fuel injection technique instead of carburetors because of its low emission levels and fuel efficiency.

A carburetor is just a tube with an adjustable plate called the throttle placed across it. This throttle controls the amount of air that flows through the tube. The carburetor tube narrows down at a place called the venture, where a vacuum is created. There is a hole in this narrowing called the jet that allows the fuel to be drawn in because of the vacuum. There are several parts in a carburetor that allow for smooth functioning. They are the pilot, pilot airscrew, throttle valve, jet needle, needle jet, air jet, and main jet.

Carburetor kits are a complete set of carburetor parts that can be easily assembled and placed in an engine. These kits are pre-tested and pre-jetted. Most carburetor kits contain parts for replacing broken down parts within the carburetor. They can be customized to fit the exact model of the carburetor. There are carburetor kits available for Harley-Davidson, Triumph, and Norton bikes. Carburetor kits are very important since very few cars and bikes use carburetors these days so carburetor kits help to keep old Harley-Davidson engine running, for example. Though all carburetors are not the same, there are some common makes of carburetors for which kits are readily available at automotive dealers’ stores. Kits for specialized carburetors are available at specialty automotive stores.

There are several websites on the Internet that contain information about carburetor rebuilding. These sites also provide carburetor rebuild kits for many car models including pickup trucks, SUVs, vans, and recreational vehicles. These kits can be ordered online and are usually shipped on the same day. They also provide professional support by technicians who would take a look at the engine and help to decide the best carburetor kit for rebuilding the carburetor.

Carburetors provides detailed information about carburetors, carburetor parts, carburetor tuning, and more. Carburetors is affiliated with Car Transport.

Before starting your brochure collection, in my view it is best to have a very clear idea about what you want to achieve.

The reason for collecting is not important, but knowing the reason is. Are you interested in a particular period in history, a particular car, type of car or brochures from a particular country, for example?

Once you have decided what the purpose of your collection is, write it down or print it out and keep it with all the items you collect.

Why should you do this, you may ask? The reason is that this will keep you focussed on what you are trying to achieve and stop you going off at tangents or pursuing avenues that are fruitless.

With the advent of the Internet, it is so easy to see an item on eBay or a website such as mine and buy on a whim. This will detract from your overall collection as there will be no theme to it and therefore it will be worth less both as a source of reference and value wise.

Also, there are very few people who do not have a budget and every “off topic” brochure you buy will reduce the amount of money you could spend on building and completing your collection.

If you adopt this approach, very soon you will find yourself becoming expert at valuing and sourcing the brochures that interest you. This will help you avoid paying more than necessary for that “so-called” rare brochure and allow you to spot undervalued bargains. With a subject as broad as brochure collecting, it is impossible to be an expert on the whole market and probably even on, for example, all Ford brochures. If you will excuse the pun, Focus!

By using this method you will also build a network of dealers or friends with a common interest who will become invaluable in helping you fill gaps in your collection by way of swaps or tradea benefit that cannot be underestimated and as someone once said, “it is not what you know, but who you know”.

The scattergun approach is simply a waste of effort. Do not do it!

Next week I will be discussing what to look for when buying brochures and critically, what to avoid!

Having developed a business from my hobby of brochure collecting, I wanted to pass the information I have taken years to obtain onto the worldwide web.

If anyone would like information or help in developing an automobilia collection, by all means e-mail me.

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Many of us get stuff on our cars, which will not easily come off. There is tree sap, over spray, bird droppings, rust spots and even salt marks from that stuff they put on the roads in winter; none of which is very easy to get off. It is very important for the protection of your car’s clear coat and paint finish to pay careful attention when cleaning your car to remove the fallout and small Rust Spots.

You should be careful if you go to a coin-op car wash or if you use a pressure washer. It is possible to get too close to the paint and damage the finish. Generally if you blast thru a clear coat you will notice it is because there will be a pealed mark and you will rip off a large chunk of paint. Use the “one-foot rule” and keep the nozzle at least one foot away from the paint at all times. You should be fine, just remember the 1-foot rule and that also applies to center caps on rims. But the rest of the rims and tires you can get closer.

The best way to remove such contaminants from your car is to wax them off. Many times a polymer solvent wax (the kind which separate and are liquid, which you have to shake well before you use them-generally tan or white with liquid when you let them sit and separate out) will take the rust dots off. Or look in the Yellow Pages for AutoMagic Detailing Products and buy clay magic to take off the tiny rust spots. Take care of your cars finish so it will last and think on this in 2006.

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Do you have a car that is just sitting around in your driveway? If so, what do you plan on doing with it? Unfortunately, many individuals do not know; therefore, their car sits there until it needs to be professionally removed. If you would like to actually do something with the vehicle that you are no longer driving, you may want to think about donating it.

When it comes to car donations, there are many individuals who are unsure as to whether or not they should donate their car. One of those reasons is due to a lack of knowledge on how the car donation process works. There are many individuals, maybe even yourself, who have no idea how to go about donating a car or even who they would donate their car to. If you are one of those individuals, you are advised against letting this lack of knowledge prevent you from participating in this amazing opportunity. Instead, you are advised to learn more about the car donation process.

Depending on where you live, you may have a number of different options when it comes to donating your car. The larger the city you live in or around, the more options you will likely have. This is because many larger cities have numerous car donation places, as well as charities that would be more than willing to accept your car. If you are wondering which place would be the best, you are not alone. Millions of other car owners are asking themselves the same question. Before you can determine which organization would be the best choice, you are advised to famialrize yourself with all of your options.

As previously mentioned, there are a number of car donation organizations. These organizations are ones that specialize in collecting cars from individuals or businesses that no longer want or need their own. All car donation organizations work in different ways, but many have a similar goal. That goal is getting your vehicle to the charity group that could the most benefit from it. Doing business with a car donation organization will prevent you from having to research and contact local charities, many times for you to find that they will not accept your vehicle donation.

Despite the fact that car donation organizations could make your car donation experience easier, you may want to deal directly with your local charities. If this is the case, you are advised to contact a number of non-profit organizations or charities. You can easily find these groups, such as churches, homeless shelters, and food pantries, by using your local phone book or the internet. In the event that you can not find anyone who is willing to accept your vehicle donation, you can then turn to a car donation organization for assistance, if you wish to do so.

As you can easily see, there are a number of different ways for you to go about donating your car. Regardless of who ends up with your donation, it is likely that your old car will be helping out a number of individuals, in a number of different ways.

Mariah Cruz is a writer for Car Angel . com where you will see abundant amounts of information to Donate car and other related information.

If you’re traveling with your dog and want to avoid the mess left by dog hairs, etc., dog seat car covers can make your life and your dogs much easier. Designed to slip on easily, these seat covers form a protective barrier between dogs and the actual seat cover, allowing you to take your best friend everywhere.

Companies such as Kozy K9 Seat Covers, Handicapped Pets, Dog Bed Works, Orvis, Petsmart, CoverCraft, Doctors Foster & Smith, Auto Anything and SitStay.com are all dedicated in providing high-quality t dog car seat covers in different designs, shapes and materials. These companies usually offer a choice between a standard or customized cover depending on how much you want to spend. Some have straps to secure them to the seats firmly. While others, like those provided by Kozy K9, have a unique non-slip surface that just lies on the seat of your car.

Handicapped Pets offers customized seat covers ideally suited for elderly dogs and disabled pets. Like Dog Bed Works, their dog car seat covers are waterproof and made for all types of cars. Orvis offers covers in great designs and colors starting at $45.00. They are well made and come with a full guarantee. Equally efficient are car covers made by Browser Pet, Canine Covers and CoverCraft. These covers offer maximum protection against any damage and are backed by a ninety-day warranty.

The most important feature to look for in a dog car seat cover should be its durability, water-resistance capacity and its washing ability.

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So you’ve got your LED or Neon interior car lights, but you’re now a bit confused
as to where all the car interior neon lights and wires go?” Well fear not, we’ll
show all the “in’s & out’s” of this type of installation and the easiest way of
doing it.

It’s a good idea to disconnect the battery before installing any car light
accessories. You can do this by disconnecting the negative battery cable and
placing it to one side of the battery where it won’t touch any part of the vehicles
body. It’s also wise to have your vehicles service manual handy for information
about the specifics of the electrical system on your vehicle.

For interior car lights, the best places to mount the LED or neon tubes are under
the dash on both sides just above where your feet go, but high enough so as not
to kick the tubes or damage them. There are also many other places you can fit
them and their location is only limited by your imagination.

To operate the lights manually, your going to need a switch located near you,
so you’ll need to buy a simple “2way toggle” switch (or use the switch that
may have came with your neon/led tube kit) from your nearest custom car
accessories store. This switch will be inserted into (in-line with) the main
power wire that supplies the kit with 12Volt power.

Choose if you want your interior car lights to turn on automatically when the
headlights are turned on, or if you want to control the lights separately with a
“toggle” switch.

If you want the neon or LED tubes to light up automatically when the headlights
are turned on, then you will need to find a wire under the dash near the
steering column. This wire you are looking for is normally Red or Yellow, and it’s
supplying the “headlight control switch” with 12V power - you’re going to have
to “tap” into this wire to light-up your neon lights when the headlights are
turned on.

If you want to be able to control the interior car lights separately from the
headlights, (best option) then there’s two ways you can do this…

1) The power wire can be connected directly to the Positive side of the car
battery, or…

2) It can be connected to any 12V power wire from under the dashboard.

If you choose to tap into a power wire from behind the dash to power your interior car lights you’ll also need to
buy a “Circuit Tester” from your nearest custom car accessory store - they only
cost about $10 dollars. To use this tester is simple, it looks like a pen with an
earth wire hanging out the top of it and a clamp attached to the end of the
wire, and it has a globe inside the middle of the pen, or on its end, which lights
up when you have found power somewhere.

To complete the interior car lighting circuit - you’ll now just need to
attach the earth wire coming out from the from your led or neon tubes to the
chassis of the vehicle. You can do this in the same way as described above for
the earth wire on the tester - anywhere where there is bare steel under the
dash is always a good earth connection for your interior car lights, even if you
find a screw under the dash that is screwed into bare steel and it is holding
another wire in place as an earth, you can use this too as an earth location.
The control panel earth wire will need to be securely screwed to the chassis of the vehicle
or to any “Earth wire” to complete the power circuit.

After your “power” & “earth” connections are complete, your car interior neon
lights should now work. If they appear dull and not real bright, then be sure to
check that you have made GOOD earth and POWER connections.
That’s it, you’re all done - now all you have to do is put any plastic panels back
into place that you may have removed, pack your tools up, and then head off to
show your friends what a great look you’ve just created on your car - Enjoy!

Please see our “More-In-depth” and step-by-step picture illustrated instructions on the How to install page listed below.

Antonio Gabellone is the Owner/Author of All-Neon-Car-Lights.com - The Site is a great resource aimed at Neon Car Lights from PlasmaGlow with “life-time Warranties”. Copyright© All-Neon-Car-Lights.com 2005-2006 - Permission is granted to reprint this article provided the webmaster supplies a *LIVE* link to the authors website.

A tracking system in your car could assist you well enough in finding out where you car may be head or where your car is in once a thief runs away with it. More often than not, people who have cars with a tracking system get them back in one piece still. You see, car tracking devices give you information on the current location of your vehicle so finding it would be easier.

You can have your own car tracking system installed in your beloved machine. Although you would have to first learn about the different tracking systems so you could choose which one would work best for you. Just like everything else, each type of these tracking systems has its own share of advantages and disadvantages. To get information, you can search through the Internet or you can also ask the companies for information about them.

Also, ask about the monthly service costs. At least, you would really know how much you would be spending on these systems and if you could really afford them. It would also be wise to ask if the system would be monitoring your car’s location at all times. That way, you can be sure that anytime you would like to have information about your car’s location, you would be given such as part of the whole payment. Also try to find a car-tracking system that has a wide range of coverage so that if the thief drives your vehicle out to another state, you can still track it.

Purchasing the right car tracking system is just like purchasing the right auto parts for your vehicle. You have to be sure that everything would be working as promised. One of the stores that continually keeps their patrons happy is Jaguar Parts and Jaguar Auto Parts and it is very much capable of supplying auto owners with specially made parts like its collection of Jaguar MK10 parts.

Michelle Crimson holds a degree in business administration. She is currently working as an editor in New Orleans, Louisiana. This 32 year old mother of two is also a car racing fanatic.

Would you believe someone if they tell you that the first Harley Davidson produced in 1903 used a tomato can for its carburetor?

You may find this story hard to believe but although undocumented, this tomato can carburetor urban legend has been circulating for years.

It is a fact though that the carburetor was invented by Wilhem Maybach. As an associate of Gottlieb Daimler, Maybach designed and developed the carburetor from which modern models are adapted from today.

A carburetor works as a device that mixes fuel and air that burns inside an internal combustion engine. In that internal combustion engine, chemical energy from the fuel is them burned into a combustion chamber. Chemical energy then transforms into mechanical energy which eventually powers the motor of a vehicle.

But even before fuel and air is transformed into mechanical energy by an internal combustion engine, it must first pass through the carburetor for it to be utilized. It is in the carburetor where the fuel, usually liquid gasoline, is atomized or changed into liquid vapor.

To fully understand how a carburetor works, let us first get to know its parts.

The basic carburetor has a cylindrical hollow tube encasement called a throat or a barrel.

Inside the barrel are pistons. These pistons are solid cylinder disks that slide back and forth in the barrel. Pistons fit snugly into the barrel to allow it to move freely but are tight enough not to let air or fluid leak in the barrel.

As the pistons move downward, a partial vacuum is created inside the barrel. This partial vacuum then draws air past through the carburetor’s throat and into a nozzle that sprays fuel. The mixture of air and fuel in the carburetor is then delivered into cylinders for combustion.

The amount of air pulled through partial vacuum created by the pistons is controlled by a throttle valve. The throttle valve is found at the base of the carburetor.

When a driver accelerates his automobile by stepping on an accelerator or a gas pedal, the throttle valve opens. The wider the throttle valve opens, the more air flows into the carburetor. Thus more fuel flows into the engine.

A passage way called a venturi is located at a carburetor’s barrel. A venturi looks like an hour glass when it narrows down. When air rushes through the narrow ends of a venturi, the air pressure against the sides of the passage way decreases.

With this, partial vacuum is created inside the barrel. This partial vacuum then draws the fuel through the nozzle and into the air.

The pistons create partial vacuum to draw air while the venturi is responsible for drawing partial vacuum to feed fuel into the nozzle.

A float chamber or float bowl is the reservoir where fuel that enters the carburetor is stored. At the reservoir’s surface, a device that floats is linked to a small valve to keep a constant amount of fuel inside the reservoir.

The carburetor also has two other nozzles are aside from the main nozzle found at the venturi of the carburetor - the idle port and the off-idle or transfer port.

The idle port, found just below the venturi, is responsible for getting fuel into the engine when there is minimal airflow in the carburetor. This happens when the engine is at a low speed.

The off-idle port, found above the idle port, feeds additional fuel to the engine during low engine speed.

An engine vacuum draws fuel from these two ports. Collectively, the off-idle port and the idle port keep the engine supplied with fuel when it is running at low speed. The main nozzle is the one responsible for keeping the engine running at normal operating speeds.

In 1985, most vehicles’ carburetors had been replaced by fuel-injection, a computerized and more efficient way of injecting fuel into the engine. But even so, we cannot deny that the technology brought by the carburetor made it possible for the automotive industry to flourish and advance.

Who would have thought what a single tomato can could do?

James Monahan is the owner and Senior Editor of
CarburetorMax.com and writes expert
articles about carburetors.

Are you hot for an alternative car or vehicle? Are you looking for the right kind of ideas and information when it comes to such? Do you think you still lack the knowledge on these vehicles to actually buy one?

Well, your prayers are just about to be answered. This coming December 9th and 10th, a car show on alternative cars and transportation would be held in the city of Santa Monica. And yes, it would be the city’s government who would be sponsoring and even hosting the AltCar Expo which would be open to the public. You can rush to the Barker Hangar at the Santa Monica Air Center to take part of this.

What would one expect from this one of a kind car show? Well, sure, there would be less of the usual vehicles clad in Jeep parts, Mercedes Benz parts, and Chevrolet parts. But there would be a real good share of alternative vehicles and those cars that have a high mile per gallon rate. Technology of such vehicles would also be showcased and shared. Seminars and symposiums would also be held so that goers could actually be able to interact with the experts on this matter. These would also be free of charge so interested parties need not worry about expenses.

“The price of oil, national security, health concerns, and environmental damage are all issues that need to be addressed now. Making more fuel efficient decisions ultimately helps everyone,” says Craig Perkins who is the environmental and public works director for the city. He would be sharing his expertise and knowledge at the AltCar Expo on the vehicles that clean air and fuel efficient. Of course, he would be dwelling on such type of vehicles that are also already available for anyone to purchase.

According to the organizers of AltCar Expo, there would actually be over a hundred alternative fuel vehicles and high MPG vehicles to be showcased. The range would include vehicles that have various sources of fuel and power - from hybrid to electric to compressed natural gases, to hydrogen to plug-ins to ethanol and even to biodiesel.

As a manager of one of the largest auto store in Springfield,Massachusetts, Sarah has extensive expertise on auto parts and automotives in general. This 42 year old is a certified car enthusiast. You can visit Jeep parts for more information.