scooby_si

Misses is learning in a crappy old fiesta with a manual choke & she is ademant she has to push it in all the way once it's started as she's been told it will damage the engine using it with choke out even thou it then runs like shyte & she nearly stalls it all the time (beyond the usual i mean lol)

Now when i had a 205 with manual choke as my 1st car i always used to run it with choke out till it was warmed up slowly feeding it in so it was always running nicely & not nearly stalling.

So whose correct & anyone got any links to or just confirmation of what is best practice when using yer olde manual choke?
Ta
Si

RON

Full choke to start if it's cold, might not need full choke in the warmer months....

I'd say push it in a little when first started... a good ear would be able to tell how much choke is required.....

Should i would have thought be all the way in within a few miles.....

She should be thankful for syncromesh gears... my first car (1972 Fiat 500) had a crash box.... double de clutch everytime or hideous noises from the box......

GaryCat

No, you let run for 30 secs - 1 minutes or so on full, then go to half way until the temp needle starts to move and then put it in.

(ex- fiesta driver myself)

Spoon

She's probably only been told that because it almost guarantees she won't forget and drive all day with the choke out, which won't be good.

Your method of running the engine till it won't stall is correct, that after all is the whole idea of a choke.

Franx2

Dunno about cars with manual chokes, as I'm too young , but with 4 stroke outboard motors, you would start the engine with the choke out, and gradually feather it back in as you said. Doesn't take long, as they're only small engines, but that's what happens.

I always understood that cars were the same tbh - only thing that would happen by leaving the choke out, is that it'd flood and stop, but I could be wrong.....

dpb

full choke assuming theres a spark of course otherwise it ll flood






hi there Franx - beat me to it...

Brendan Hughes

She's been told that to stop her hanging her handbag on it.

((c)J. Carrott, 198x)

mart360

Ive had many cars with manual chokes, and all had varying starting regimes,

i one had my mate and his dad trying for 3 hours to bump start an onld car of mine with manual choke, i did it in 10 secs

they were pulling the choke out half way, i just pulled it right out, and bobs your.

Ive had a volvo that required half way, and then easing in as the revs rose,

and a volvo that needed it on full choke for a few minutes.

others have required no choke,


its one of those suck it and see scenarios

Mart

ALi-B

iTrader: (1)

Don't forget to pump the accelerator twice before cranking to prime it

(accelerator pump).

And yeah push the choke **** back in to the point that engine idles and revs smoothly (around 1200-1500rpm if you have the luxuary of a revclock on that beast), but not stall or stutter when driving....and don't let it do its "dug dug dug" Subaru impression for too long


But it is as Mart says, suck it and see. It depends if some bodger who "thinks" they know how to tune carbs and set the fast idle linkages etc correctly has been tinkering under the bonnet and messing it all up.

stevem2k

ahh , like my old mini where the cable wouldn't stay 'out'

Apply 3 clothes pegs to choke - start , remove 1 , temp gauge starts moving, remove 2nd peg, temp at 1/4 , remove last one

worked a treat

Steve

fast bloke

I used to have a mini that the choke wouldn't lock in place - you pulled it out it just shot straight back in. I ended up with 4 different sized bulldog clips for the varying degrees of choke required to get the thing going. Si - you should just have enough choke to keep it ticking over - around 800-100 revs on idle - as RON says - a good ear is all you need

fast bloke

LOL - Steve - used to do the pegs as well, but if it had been left for half an hour on a cold night it needed 2.75 pegs IIRC

ALi-B

iTrader: (1)

Better than wedging the flap shut on a knackerd autochoke

ru'

On my first car I could use the choke for cruise control; steady 30mph with it out...

gingerboy

I bet the mpg when you were doing this was worse than a scoob .

GB

matchmaker

Manual chokes...............takes me back. Last car I had with a manual choke was a 1975 Dolomite Sprint Anything since had either an automatic choke or fuel injection. Mind you, a manual choke was preferable to most automatic chokes I've experienced As others have said, technique depends on the car as well as how hot/cold the engine/ambient temperature is.

scoobydooooo

i'm just pissing myself laughing at this thread !!

richs2891

Err dont think I ever driven a car with a manual choke, and before you ask I'm 30 and I've driven a fair few cars !

Richard

Spoon

Same here Richard, I think the poor are having a thread of their own.

However, my lawn mower has a manual choke. (Or hare and tortoise as the pictures show).

pugoetru

My wife drives my 205 every day and even she can work the choke!! as said already just move it in as the temp rises

pushing it in right away can do just as much harm as leaving it out too long but all cars are different.

scooby_si

OK cheers for you input folks i'm guna claim that as a victory to me lol
Si

Diablo

LOL

Did no one tell you with a mini you had to pull out and then turn the **** to get it to lock in place??

Jay m A

iTrader: (2)

Ah, the ol' mini peg trick, the nostalgia

stevem2k

Not on a 1965 Mk1


850cc's of pure adrenalin

DJ Dunk

iTrader: (5)

LOL, my Mini's choke never locked in place properly so also had half a peg to slot in place

Had forgotten all about that

Leslie

Too much choke can wash the oil off the cylinder walls, so the way you were doing it by progressively reducing it as the engine warmed up is the correct way.

Les

Poor Guy

in my GT6, i pull out the choke to fire up, then put it 1/2 way in until the temp goes up to just over 1/2 way.

fast bloke

Didn't work - as you turned it round various bits of the dashboard fell off. (Givus a break - the car only cost me 20 quid )

Leslie

Billgtt

Both my gtt's have got manual chokes. Well they should have, but I threw them in the bin