<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482062008930_10762"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482062008930_10761">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. </span></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="Arial"> On Sunday, December 18, 2016 12:11 AM, Bob Spidell <bspidell@comcast.net> wrote:<br></font></div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv9688513444"><div>
<div>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
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<div class="yiv9688513444yqt6464368928" id="yiv9688513444yqt77590"><div class="yiv9688513444moz-cite-prefix">On 12/16/2016 9:14 AM, Bluehealey
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<div class="yiv9688513444MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">I
think it’s a feature of those 2” carbs.</span></div>
<div class="yiv9688513444MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">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.</span></div>
<div class="yiv9688513444MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">The
starter fluid trick seems to confirm that.</span></div>
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