Re: [Amc-list] Dissin' the electric choke.

[Ken Ames <ameskg@xxxxxxxxx>]

My generic choke position on the BBDs is to have the electric connection
pointing pretty much straight up. Works for me.

Ken


Quoting Joe Fulton <piper_pa20@xxxxxxxxxxx>:

> 
> 
> The BBD carb on my Gremlin has an electric choke.  It's a Northern Carburetor
> rebuild and the choke was adjusted too lean from the rebuilder, so I richened
> it up today.  It sits so close to the the air injection pipe on the intake
> that you have to remove the carb to adjust the choke. An angled screwdriver
> won't even fit.  That's my first complaint.  
> 
> The second is that it of course has no feedback from how warm the engine is.
> If the engine is slightly warm (short trip after a cold start} but the choke
> coil has not heated the choke closes and the car runs rich and is a little
> balky until the choke goes through it's warm up cycle again and fully opens.
> I don't know how to tune this out. It seems that a manifold heated choke
> would be better in that regard.  Darned newfangled parts anyway.
> 
> Joe Fulton
> Salinas, CA
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