[Healeys] Starting a BJ8

[rkeysor]

My biggest "start" issue came in 2013 when I overnighted in South Carolina on a chilly night while driving my newly purchased BN7 back to Jacksonville from southern Virginia.  I emerged from the motel bright and early with my traveling companion, only to find I couldn't start the car. After a lot of cranking, a former Brit car owner walked by, stopped, and suggested I invest in some starting fluid.  As soon as the local car parts store opened, I did, and the car did, too.  I later adjusted the jets in the car and installed a generic manual choke that I hid under the dash and my starting problem went away.  Interestingly, I could not get the dash-mounted choke to function and abandoned it.  Since my intake manifold tells me my car was originally fitted with the starting carb Healey briefly employed, the dash-mounted choke pull wasn't original to my car.   

    On Sunday, December 18, 2016 12:11 AM, Bob Spidell <bspidell at comcast.net> wrote:
 

  Good info.  I'll add one more thing: On my BJ8, at least, the choke knob has to be held forcefully full out; if the return springs are working at all the knob will slide in a little when you release it.  This could possibly make the difference between a start or not.
  
 On 12/16/2016 9:14 AM, Bluehealey wrote:
  
 
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