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Re: [oletrucks] electric choke

To: "Jeff Davis" <jsd51@hotmail.com>, oletrucks@Autox.Team.Net
Subject: Re: [oletrucks] electric choke
From: Bill Bailey <billb@gamewood.net>
Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 13:54:13 -0400
At 09:56 PM 05/13/2000 PDT, Jeff Davis wrote:
>     Hi all!
>
>     Was hoping someone could help me out with a problem I have on my newly 
>aquired '66 chevy. It's got a electric choke on a rochester monojet carb and 
>it only takes about thirty seconds for the choke to start opening. This 
>isn't enough time for the engine (250) to warm up so when I take off and 
>shift into second gear the thing falls on it's face. Is there anyway to 
>adjust the amount of time it takes for the voltage to operate the choke, 
>like maybe an inline resister cutting the voltage in half, or would that 
>just keep the choke from operating?
>
>Thanks in advance for all your help!
>Jeff Davis
>'51 custom


Doesn't it have a spring cap that you can adjust to vary the time it takes
to come on?
My Edelbrock has an electric choke yet it still has a spring cap.
Bill Bailey
57 Chevy 3100
Danville, Virginia
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