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Originally Posted by Clifford Pope
Joe, you seem to be starting on a mixture of gas and petrol?
You give it a shot of gas, then full choke, then get the choke in after a mile.
I'm puzzled.
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No, I'll clarify. We have a changeover switch with a function that, set to gas, when you turn on the ignition, gas is admitted into the inlet manifold for a set period of time (9 seconds in our case.)
It is necessary to pull out the choke to allow full gas to flow through the carb. With the choke fully out, after usually one shot of gas, the car starts, even though the vapouriser is stone cold.
After that, the vapouriser heats quickly, (being heated by the primary cooling circuit) then normal operation takes over. Choke in within 1 mile.
At no time do we need petrol to get it started, although with nighttime temperatures as they are I'll be ready to try it if the gas does let me down.
Hope this is clearer.