manual choke?

[slowpoke]

is there a manual choke kit for the Q-jet?
i have a 70 c-10 and always liked a manual choke and the carb i am going to rebuild does not have an electric and I will have to install an electric or a manual and I prefer a manual choke.

[Schurkey]

is there a manual choke kit for the Q-jet?
i have a 70 c-10 and always liked a manual choke and the carb i am going to rebuild does not have an electric and I will have to install an electric or a manual and I prefer a manual choke.

Every manual choke kit I've ever seen is a flimsy, cheap piece of junk that barely functions. 

It's SO EASY to get an automatic choke to work well, there isn't any reason to convert to a manual choke.

[Cliff Ruggles]

If you are getting a hot-air style choke carb, I'd go electric.  We sell the correct choke to convert them.  Most for sale on E-bay and others sources are not correct for the q-jet.  They do NOT "clock" correctly, or have the correct release time, pigtail for the wiring harness, etc......Cliff

[A. G. Olphart]

I'm with Slopoke...  I prefer a manual choke.

Our weather here is such that we seldom need a choke; with a manual choke I can generally push it right back in once the engine fires.

What's a decent way to go from divorced to manual on the Qjet?



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[Cliff Ruggles]

Mount a bracket on the rear carb bolt to hold a cable, run the cable inside the vehicle under the dash, attached the cable to the same part of the carb that the factory divorced choke rod hooks to.

The geometry is seldom correct, and more often than not, a piece is required on the carb so the cable moves the choke arm correctly.....Cliff

[Rickard080TA]

I have a manual choke on a 1980 Pontiac Trans Am. I have not be able to find information on how it works. I have learned alot about the electric, but not manual. I am far from being a mechanic but here is my situation. Car is hard to start, once it is warmed up it is fine. The manual cable moves about 1/4 of an inch so I know its stuck somewhere. The part that opens and closes to allow air is always open. If you look at the pic it is open right now. Thats a cold engine. My questions are..

1) Is there a difference in the linkage between electric and manual once you get past the choke itself?
2) I am unable to find a good site that shows conversion from manual to electric, even in this forum, anyone know of one?
3) I have rivets not screws holding the choke on, if I break the rivets off, are there threads so I can screw it back on?

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[429bbf]

what you have is a piece of cake to convert . you have a hot air choke that someone has made manual. easy fix . spend 50.00 or so and get an electric choke kit from cliff . drill the rivets out throw away the gasket and plug the little hole behind the choke assemble . install your electric unit adjust and drive. do not use to big of bit when you drill the rivets. i prefer to just drill the heads and drive the rivet out .the kit comes with self tapping screws. i like to tap the housing myself.you need to find a power source with the key on.hth.

[Rickard080TA]

Thanks for the reply. Any suggestion for what I would use as the power?

[Ethan1]

Thanks for the reply. Any suggestion for what I would use as the power?

 Welcome to CHP!

 Any 12v source should suffice. Somewhere even on the fuse block, that gets 12v key on.