![]() May 30, 2009 Suzuki Alto 1994 has automatic choke which doesn't. Allow the choke to activate and put a squirt of gas in. How do I get the new car smell after it. HI All, I've been running an electric choke on my Edelbrock Performer for about a year. Starts up cold just. The problem is, when I start the car when the motor is still hot. Now my question is: if an electric choke is activated by turning the ignition switch, how does it know if the engine is hot or not? According to the parts break down on this mtr you have just choke plates in your carbs and no primer To activate automatic choke. Car with an automatic choke. How to Use a Manual Choke on a Car. Push the manual choke in fully once the car engine reaches a normal operating. How to Adjust Electric Choke on an Edelbrock. According to the parts break down on this mtr you have just choke plates in your carbs and no primer To activate automatic choke. Car with an automatic choke. My last BMW - an '87 E30 316 with the M10 1.8 carbueretted engine - was new enough to be of the non-injected auto choke variety. However, someone had retrofitted a manual choke to it. Very poorly, as it goes. It was almost fucking impossible to start, with its stretchy long cable. So I got an auto choke from the scrappers and put it back to normal. ![]() ![]() IME of working on cars, there are people out there driving around who cannot comtemplate how a car can possibly start without having to yank a choke-cable halfway out of their dashboard before starting the ignition. I had a good old banger, which I was driving to the South of France once, it was during a heatwave, 56° on the road, the radio kept giving warnings to stop, park in shade etc. Of course I didn't. The engine cut out. I had the carb stripped and cleaned. Again and again. The mechanics could not understand it. I drove at night- fine. G/F suggested 'I think the petrol may be vapourising in the fuel feed' -bloody women. Eventually I read the owners manual. 'If driven in ambient temperatures of over 38° this vehicle requires a tropicalisation kit British Leyland part no xxxxxxx. Otherwise the petrol will vapourise in the carburetor fuel feed' That was when we were really English. My 1961 Triumph Herald has a choke, and so does my Landrover 'Airportable' which was made in 1984. And the reason why some people retro-fitted carbs. With manual chokes on cars originally fitted with carburettors with automatic chokes was that automatic chokes often did not work properly, making the car hard to start in cold weather. At least with a manual choke you could decide that it was cold enough to need it, and operate it yourself. Fuel injection and engine management have made it all irrelevant now anyway. Having a 'winter / summer' setting for the air intake just slightly helped rapid warming up and therefore fuel economy. Like blocking off part of the radiator grille in cold weather. I am not really familiar with the choke of the Alto (is it manual choke or an automatic one?). Nevertheless, I know that it is utilized by the fuel system (especially the carburetor-types). In the morning or when it is cold, the choke is usually activated (sort of closes over the carburetor) to ensure that the car starts. If its not activated (sort of left open), the car will have difficulty in being started. Now, what you should do is check it up yourself and see if it does work (you can see it when you remove the air filter). It might just be the joints or connections (if its a manual choke) or it could be the electrical connection to the automatic choke (or the automatic choke needs to be replaced). The best thing to do is to bring it to either a Susuki shop (they might charge high though) or have a carburetor specialist check it out.
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