Staying Straight
Placing gaskets tail light, parking light, or side marker light housings and keeping them straight can be frustrating. A gasket has a tendency to wander as you tighten the lens. To eliminate the gasket’s wandering, rub some paper glue stick on one surface. This allows you to align the gasket on the housing. If you don’t like placing the glue directly to the gasket, it can be brushed on the housing with a small, course brush.
Staying Cool, Or Just Playing Cool?
Q: I’ve seen many old pictures of British Army vehicles in the North African desert during World War Two that have parts of their grilles removed or cut out. I assume this was done to improve cooling but I wonder if it really helped much, especially on jeeps?
—Don Willard
: Speaking as one who lived for years in the Arizona desert and drove many types of older vehicles, including vintage jeeps, I never found any evidence that cutting sections out of, or even completely removing, their stock grilles made any significant difference in engine cooling. I suspect the British practice had more of a psychological effect on the personnel than serving any useful purpose in cooling the vehicles. Neither the U.S. nor
