Choke adjustments and Cheap Chinese carburetor WARNING

[rcarlisle]

[Feb 5, 2022]Today's drive went well.  The idle went way high at first stop sign leaving neighborhood.  Then settled down.  Just takes a little longer to get to curb idle than I think it needs to.  This could be the heat getting to choke cap too slow.

[Feb 6, 2022]  Same results.  I think we are basically done with this.  I may try an electric assist choke cap to get choke to finish opening faster.   At this point, the engine is in it's normal warm zone on gauge a bit before the idle drops completely.  

Any further adjustments will be small incremental adjustments.  

Thanks for ALL your input and support working through this.  

[rcarlisle]

I finally tried the electric assist choke cap from the Chinese carb.  And it made it even better.   In my normal commute, I have a stop sign at 1/4 mile, 1 mile, then  at about the 4 mile mark.   Up to now the choke would never get to hot idle or was taking way on up to 7-8 miles to come off completely.  

This morning, it was at hot idle at the stoplight after the 4 mile, which is likely about 6 mile mark.  So all of you that said electric assist cap were right.  Dang it. get those "TOLD YA SOs" out now.   I really didn't want to run that wire.   I need to redo some of it.  The stator post was missing any nut or washers.   I found a nut.  I need a better ring terminal and maybe a couple washers that fit the post right.  All I had was one of those U shaped terminals and it was too small.   But this was for testing purposes, so I can find the parts to do it right soon.  It works more properly now.  

Cold start, full choke idle jumps to 1600, which is too fast; need to set that back a little.  Second step is 1200.  So maybe that cold could be 1200.   Then a step between cold and hot.  I did set the cold idle to 1600 when hot, but it jumps up there full cold too.  

Hot idle is about 700 right now. May dial that back a touch too.

[Gary Lewis]

No "told ya so" from me.  I'm just glad you are getting it dialed in.  And, I'm happy to know that there is a full-electric cap that works on these carbs.

GM ran full-electric caps for years on their cars and they worked fine.  Maybe not quite as well as some other approaches, but they worked.  So that cap can help a lot of people who have rusted-out hot air tubing.