<VV> What in the World.....?

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matt Nall" <patiomatt at aol.com>
: Re: <VV> What in the World.....?


> John sez:
> I guess back in 1961 having a manual choke was no big deal, people were 
> used
> to having more control of their cars.
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>  Bob's question was   "  WHY  after having an Automatic Choke in 1960... 
> would they go back to a Manual?'
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> Matt Nall
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I humbly think that I am a pretty good carburetor guy...  and yet I much 
prefer manual chokes on my cars/farm tractors ......   they tend to do just 
what I want them to do ... mostly richen the initial mixture at cold start 
... they also help to analyse mixture problems at certain times..... for 
instance, if you have a mid range or high end stumble, you can enrichen the 
mixture with the choke ( plate or ) ... if things get better, you had a lean 
spot ... if things get worse, you already had a too rich mixture spot ....

About 75% of problems I submit come from either choke aggravations, or a 
close relative, very small fussy low end passage clogs...  ( about 25 % are 
from float bowl failure/mis-adjustment ) ....

Further, as a kitchen table fuel injection half knowledgeable guy, it seems 
that a lot of problems might be solved... or avoided ... with fuel injection 
systems if at least the cold start, low speed, idle air by-passes, etc., 
were handled by manual schemes .

just some thoughts ... ken campbell, deltawerkes