[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Remember pulling the Choke (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 1/30/2015 4:53:44 AM EDT
To start the car...
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I still pull the choke. I prefer the manual to the automatic chokes. I replaced the stove pot choke on my '49 Plymouth with a manual. Only down side was that now the oil bath air cleaner won't fit. Don't understand the point of the automatic ones. Every one I ever drove would let the engine stall in very cold weather. |
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Quoted: Don't understand the point of the automatic ones. Every one I ever drove would let the engine stall in very cold weather. Quoted: Quoted: I still pull the choke. I prefer the manual to the automatic chokes. I replaced the stove pot choke on my '49 Plymouth with a manual. Only down side was that now the oil bath air cleaner won't fit. Don't understand the point of the automatic ones. Every one I ever drove would let the engine stall in very cold weather. Even at their best you still end up blipping the throttle trying to get it out of fast idle. Basically anything with the word automatic that is installed on a car is there for people who should be on the road anyways.
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ZRX has a "choke", actually an enrichener.
044 has a choke.  044quarter by zweitakt250, on Flickr
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Remember the floor mounted high beam headlight switch...........I remember them being a silver colored "button" you pushed in with your foot? |
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Quoted: Remember the floor mounted high beam headlight switch...........I remember them being a silver colored "button" you pushed in with your foot? Quoted: Remember the floor mounted high beam headlight switch...........I remember them being a silver colored "button" you pushed in with your foot? They were awesome, wish they would bring them back. |
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They were awesome, wish they would bring them back. Quoted:
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Remember the floor mounted high beam headlight switch...........I remember them being a silver colored "button" you pushed in with your foot? They were awesome, wish they would bring them back. Yes. Another piece of my youth gone forever. Easy to replace too, unlike this modern, on the column bullshit. 
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Yes. My 1970 'Cuda has one as well as my small equipment, bikes and ATV's.
Most folks had no idea how to use one properly, as soon as it stars you have to move it slightly back in and progressively so as the engine gets up to operating temperature. Some of the gas trucks in our fleet still had them as late as the mid 80's, most folks had no clue, I still remember the black smoke and burning eyes when no one could figure out that you had to push the dang thing in slightly as soon as it started. 
Spark advance lever.... LOL I had an old outboard that had one of those along with the mixture control dials. Thanks for the memories.... 
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My kick only restoration will be complete this summer, rockin' it old school 
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Or the floor mounted dimmer switch.... |
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C-choke H-? F-Fast Idle? |
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And fanticly depressing the accelerator. Praying it would start before the battery would start loosing the power to turn the motor fast enough. There is a lack of appreciation for fuel injection in this nostalgic look back. Agreed. But shit was easier to fix then. |
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C-choke H-? F-Fast Idle? no idea it's a 1968 Subaru 360 2 stroke engine, but C is Choke |
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Quoted: Remember the floor mounted high beam headlight switch...........I remember them being a silver colored "button" you pushed in with your foot? Quoted: Remember the floor mounted high beam headlight switch...........I remember them being a silver colored "button" you pushed in with your foot? They tried to do away with the steering column high beam switch in Alabama...... Too many people there were getting their feet caught in the steering wheel. |
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Agreed. But shit was easier to fix then. Quoted:
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And fanticly depressing the accelerator. Praying it would start before the battery would start loosing the power to turn the motor fast enough. There is a lack of appreciation for fuel injection in this nostalgic look back. Agreed. But shit was easier to fix then. It had to be, we were always having to fix them |
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Remember the floor mounted high beam headlight switch...........I remember them being a silver colored "button" you pushed in with your foot? Quoted:
Remember the floor mounted high beam headlight switch...........I remember them being a silver colored "button" you pushed in with your foot? A man could learn to dance driving an old stickshift with a floor mounted dimmer. |
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Yes...and I did this morning also... Technically it's called an enricher on the KLR <a href="http://s85.photobucket.com/user/outdoorgb/media/Motorcycle/20140705_104552_resized_zps7fe5a2c8.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k50/outdoorgb/Motorcycle/20140705_104552_resized_zps7fe5a2c8.jpg</a> Not sure if that's Hood or Jefferson in the background, but either way I've probably been on that road. |
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My Mach1 has an aftermarket choke. Fortunately the 351CJ is a beast of an air pump so there's no fighting it. full out in the winter, 1/4 out in the summer, if at all. pump the gas a few times and boom. Also, the Cleveland is the only carb'ed car that I've never flooded. You can hear the fucking carb shit gas by the bucketful every pump... gas sit there and pump like cray, car doesn't care. |