Comment on Even more of a challenge if you were smoking a butt while driving this type of car

• AbidingOhmsLaw@lemmy.ml ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yep, choke, before fuel injection cars had carberators just like small engines in lawn mowers, chainsaws, etc. In the 70s cars started to haves “automatic chokes”, it was just a bimatalic coil that opened the choke more when the engine got hot. Prior to that there was knob on the dash that pulled out to close thee choke.

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  • uid0gid0@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This is also why in old horror movies the car never starts when you want it to. It was pretty easy to “flood the engine” - put to much fuel in the carburetor - if you were in a hurry. Then you had to let it sit for a while and let some of the gas evaporate so you could try again.

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• NochMehrG@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Nope. I also remember choke as on the chainsaw in cars.

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  • wolfrasin@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Aaaaaah! Glad I’m born too late

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    • thisbenzingring@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      On cold stars choke was a nightmare. My grandpa left my mom a truck that requested a choke and it was painful to be a kid watching her struggle with it

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      • AbidingOhmsLaw@lemmy.ml ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yep, I. Cold climates it was common to see a can of starting fluid on the front passenger slide floor. The procedure was, crank the engine once, pull out the choke, then give it a go pressing the gas up and down slightly but not to much, if no start pop the hood and spray starting fluid under air filter cover, give it another go . . .

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