All you need to know to maintain your car.

[OneEyeJack]

The secrets of car maintenance were reveled in 1926 by the Chalmers company in 1926. All you have to do is follow this schedule.

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[Icecube]

Super interesting. I am not sure if any cars would be sold if this was still the required maintenance schedule. Thanks for sharing this link.

 

[eljefino]

I passed by a 1920's Dodge with a fancy horn on the bumper that required frequent oiling with 20-weight.

 

[Michael_P]

For those who followed maintenance to the letter of the law; I wonder how long their vehicles lasted.

 

[kozanoglu]

Do those every 100 miles? Kinda excessive.

 

[01rangerxl]

Cool find.

That's a lot of maintenance, but the mileage intervals they give suggest some people did what would be a fairly average amount of driving these days. 300 miles a week is a little less than 16K a year. It would be over 100K by 7 years...if one of these cars lasted that long in regular use.

In a funny way it's kind of simple...everything either takes "motor oil" or "cup grease." Not to mention the amounts..."few drops," "thoroughly."

 

[Doog]

You mean you guys don't do that every day?

 

[Spazdog]

Ignition bearings?

unisparker?

Why didn't that name take off?

Unisparker!

That's much more fun than distributor.

and you have to "focus the headlights" by "throwing a coat on one or the other"

 

[OneEyeJack]

Check the site out. The Chalmers manual is just a very small part of the 50,000 pieces there.

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If you're interested in brochures, manuals, sales literature this site has enough to keep you busy for quite a while.