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AbidingOhmsLaw@lemmy.ml 21 hours agoYep, 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.
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.