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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:

--- Quote from: slowpoke on May 07, 2011, 07:12:19 PM ---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.

--- End quote ---
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?



ag

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

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