[Healeys] Starting a BJ8

[Michael Salter]

I actually wrote an article on the BJ8 choke control several years ago...
You can read it here if interested.
http://www.netbug.net/blogmichael/2007/01/17/bj8-choke-woes/

Michael S
Bn1 #174

On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 12:26 PM, i erbs <eyera3000 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have seen a wooden clothes pin used to hold the cable out.
> Fwiw.
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> Ira Erbs
> 1959 100-6
> MKI engine and disc brakes
> Portland,OR
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> On Dec 17, 2016 9:40 PM, "Bob Spidell" <bspidell at comcast.net> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> On 12/16/2016 9:14 AM, Bluehealey wrote:
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>> I think it’s a feature of those 2” carbs.
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>> The air speed across the jet is quite low at cranking speed, much lower
>> than with HD6’s as the 8’s have 30% larger choke area for the same volume
>> of air being pulled by the induction.  As a result there is a need to get
>> the jets pulled as low as possible to get fuel into the throats.
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>> The starter fluid trick seems to confirm that.
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>> AlanB
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