Saturday, November 19, 2011

My opel kadet battles to start after I removed the choke?

The automatic chock was very rusted and started leaking water, so I bypassed It. The car still goes good but It battles to start. I tried to adjust the Idle screw, It starts a bit better now but I'm worried that if I adjust it to much the car might use more fuel.|||There must be some versions of that carb which had a manual choke provision or means of fitting one. Fiddling with the carb settings isn't going to be sufficient, it needs some method of choking for a cold start. The carb settings should be those necessary when it is warmed up.





If push comes to shove I'd imagine a good engineer could make you up some form of "strangler" for it.|||Hi


when ford used to fit automatic chokes that proved to be a pain they did a conversion kit.


but as this is a opel it is not likely so i would go on the hunt of a carb conversion kit.


in my day two alternatives where a japanese nikki twin choke and a weber twin choke.


tou will need the manifold as well but it is a better carb, and although it is a stage 1 it will start easier and strange as the rest of the stage 1 has not been done it will give more mpg.|||The choke was there to make it easy to start when cold. You can find other choke actuators that will fit the housing, rotate the right direction that are electric heated. If you installed one of these no more water leaks and it would start easier. The problem is finding some one in a parts store who will help you locate the right one to work and then finding a hot lead to use to heat it. Even an old non heated one would be better then none or a kit to manually open and close it.

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