I have the opposite problem, I have a double choke cable, and only the rear
carb is hooked up. It seems to work fine, and I haven't bothered to hook
up the front carb to the choke. The cable just hangs there since I am
missing the hook up piece to the front carb. FWIW
Jane
'67 GT6
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> From: Peter Ficklin <pficklin@qnis.net>
> To: triumphs@autox.team.net; Creig & Kay Houghtaling <creigkay@juno.com>
> Subject: Re: Question: Early Spitfire choke cable.
> Date: Thursday, October 23, 1997 11:26 PM
>
> Creig wrote:
> >
> > Dear List,
> > I have a '63 Spitfire (Mk. I). The car does not have a choke cable.
> > I ordered one and received it, but I am not sure it is correct.
> > I was expecting a twin cable system like the one I have on my
> > TR6 (one cable for each carb). I received a single cable. If
> > this is incorrect I will need to return it. If one is correct, then
> > I will need a little information on how to make it work.
> > Thanks in advance to anyone who can help me on this.
> > Creig Houghtaling
> > St. Louis, MO
>
> Creig,
> I beleive (I'm not looking at the cars or manuals right now, so
> correct me SOLer's if I mess up...) that there is a shaft between the
> carbs that operates the chokes together, just as the throttle operates.
> On the rear(?) carb there is a copper sleeve that the end of the choke
> cable goes through to connect to the rear carb choke linkage. This
> linkage connects via a shaft to the front carb and therefore operates
> the front carb choke simultaneously. Confused? Yeah, me too,
> especially without pictures. Good luck...
>
> Peter Ficklin
> '63 & '68 Spits
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