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Posted by No Snaab (more from No Snaab) on Thu, 4 Sep 2008 10:58:36
In Reply to: It's not just the carb, No Snaab, Thu, 4 Sep 2008 10:58:34
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First off you have to develope a starting routine which is unique to your car. With an automatic choke you first push the gas petal to the floor and release it which sets the choke. If it's a cool or wet day you might need to pump it a few times. With a manual choke you set it yourself and if it's a British car, don't even think about touching the gas petal. How much choke you give it depends on how cold the engine is and how cold the weather is (figure wrong and it won't start). It'll often take a couple of tries before it starts and stays running. Then you have to decide how soon to shut the choke off--too soon and it'll stall, too late and it'll foul the plugs. You also have to learn the procedure for when you flood it (and you will)--it's usually choke off and throttle wide open until it clears. With British cars if you flood it you're screwed, come back in an hour. If you flood it and have to get somewhere, you can pull the plugs and wire brush them or use a lighter to heat and dry the plugs (if you want to be period correct, get a vintage Zippo and a pack of Cools--sometimes the amount of time it take to have a smoke is the exact amount of time it needs to sit before you try it again). Of course there's also hot starts which takes a whole different procedure, usuaully you have to give it a little gas. I guess I'd forgotten all this stuff--throw in bias ply tires and drum brakes and you can see that driving was a very real adventure in the "good" old days.
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Posts in this Thread:
- Carburetors, give it to me straight folks, DAnH , Thu, 4 Sep 2008 10:58:30
- Re: Carburetors, give it to me straight folks, Cheap Charley, Thu, 4 Sep 2008 22:19:28
- Re: Carburetors, give it to me straight folks, Larry in Maine, Thu, 4 Sep 2008 13:06:26
- No worries! They mostly work and, Noel, Thu, 4 Sep 2008 10:58:35
- It's not just the carb, No Snaab, Thu, 4 Sep 2008 10:58:34
- Re: Carburetors, give it to me straight folks, saabhubby, Thu, 4 Sep 2008 10:58:32
- Re: Carburetors, give it to me straight folks, Eric Law, Thu, 4 Sep 2008 10:58:31
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