Why not use an electric choke. My Holley carb works fine with it. Jay in fL. ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Elle" <johnelle@xxxxxxxxx> To: <AMC-List@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 7:17 PM Subject: Re: [AMC-List] & Choke heat tube > > Arfon > SNIP > But, I am missing the choke control mechanism. It > looks like there used to be a heat tube and that it was > cut off and a manual choke installed. I'd like to put > the automatic one back. > > Any opinions on how to replace that tube? > SNIP > Working from and old memory that is faded a bit with time, It seems to > me that last time had to deal with that the tube going through the > exhaust manifold was steel and what was wrong the tube going to the > carburetor had rotted away with rust and I was able to drill out the > steel tube in the exhaust manifold using a drill that just removed the > residual rust with out damaging the steel tube (which will cause and > exhaust manifold leak) and use a small piece of copper tube to conduct > the heat to the automatic choke on the carburetor it self. The copper > tube was inserted into the steel tube that is in the exhaust manifold. > But I will admit that it has been quite a while since I played with > that. The newer AMC cars have electric chokes which may not be a bad way > to go if you can find the change over parts off of a newer YF Carburetor > for a donor. > John > > _______________________________________________ > AMC-List mailing list > AMC-List@xxxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.amc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/amc-list > > or go to http://www.amc-list.com > _______________________________________________ AMC-List mailing list AMC-List@xxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.amc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/amc-list or go to http://www.amc-list.com