While on our anniversary tour, we are woken by loud, strange noises from the parking lot...
I think to myself "Self, that sounds an awful lot like a flathead engine. An OLD flathead engine"...
Sure enough, these guys are on some kinda Maine to Florida car race. I even helped a guy get an old Plymouth started.
He was just driving. Knows nothing about engines. His carb was flooding, prolly a stuck float. He said "The owner says to tap on the top"
So he was poking around tapping on things with his finger. I asked if he "wiggled the linkage"?
He looked at me like I had two heads. So I moved the linkage back and forth while tapping on the bowl with my pocket knife.
He tried starting it. No good. I asked him "Can I choke it with my hand while you crank"? Cupping my hand over the intake seemed to
give the old beast all it needed to start...

Damn!

That should be a COC violation.  

Nice post.

GD gets sicker and sicker with each passing day.

Put my hand over a carb once to try that and I got a hickey from it.

Anniversary tour eh?

Yeah, young punks don't even know what a choke is on a car...