Re: What's the point of my choke?

[Ulix Goettsch <ulix@u.washington.edu>]

On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Eric Mumford wrote:

> 1500, Weber DGV, manual choke.
> 
> The car starts up fine with the choke open or closed.  What gives here? 
> Why did I get a manual choke? :)

If your choke is set up correctly and the engine is started from cold, you
should need some choke.  Since the Weber has an accelerator pump you can
start it by pumping the pedal a couple of times but it should not run
smoothly enough to drive well w/o choke.

If it runs smoothly w/o the choke I suspect your carb is running too rich.
I have had similar carbs on Fiats and it is fairly easy to change the
jets.

    Ulix                                                    __/__,__        
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