Re: KPack's 1954 Panama

Posted by kevinpackard On 2020/12/16 17:42:13

Don - that part was bent over to engage to arm inside the manual choke housing. I'm going to pick up the spare carb from Ross that hopefully has everything, and will just swap out everything inside the choke assembly. I'll keep the old manual choke parts in case I want or need to swap back for whatever reason.

Ernie - I don't think my battery is in great condition because after a few times cranking it gets noticeably weak. An electric fuel pump would be a nice backup to get fuel into the float bowl.

Joe - definitely does not have that part, or most of the others that are shown in the picture.

David - thanks for the link to the patent. Those pictures are definitely helpful. The conditions you describe regarding not having the high idle feature are familiar to me. Often when starting the car, it will start and immediately die before I can get the choke open. The next crank it will start right up and work. The car definitely runs rich. Maybe not as much as it did, but for sure not where it should be.

Thanks everyone for the guidance.

-Kevin