Re: Driving about in ten degree weather-how about you?

Posted by Tim Cole On 2013/11/25 17:16:23

Dear Pat:

Let me save you a boatload of heart ache.

If your car has dual exhausts then stuff a rag into the driver's side tailpipe during warm up. This will avoid the royal pain of fixing the heat riser if it is not working.

It sounds like you need a choke, choke pull off, and fast idle adjustment. Sometimes those Rochesters leak from the well plugs and the car will fire up and then stall.

A common symptom is that as the carburetor ages the pull off piston wears out and the only way to keep the motor from loading in warm weather is to lean the choke. Then in cold weather it doesn't run. This is one reason why new carburetors always work better than rebuilts. In this case the only way to live with the problem is to keep the motor on fast idle until it warms up.

Somebody I know found a brand new carburetor for their OHV V-8 Caddy. It was an absolute dream. You would think it had a computer control. If the motor had a balancer shaft you would not know it was running.