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skeazle

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My 1930 Model A Tudor has been sitting in the heated garage all winter. Since I got it out about a month ago I have started it right off the first try without touching the choke. What gives there? I'm not complaining but the first time it was by accident but the other time I went out to the car and noticed I had left the cut off valve opened so I purposely cranked it over without using the choke and it popped right off. And to think I was thinking about selling it. Anyone else ever had that happen? Just curious. Jim
 
skeazle said:
My 1930 Model A Tudor has been sitting in the heated garage all winter. Since I got it out about a month ago I have started it right off the first try without touching the choke. What gives there? I'm not complaining but the first time it was by accident but the other time I went out to the car and noticed I had left the cut off valve opened so I purposely cranked it over without using the choke and it popped right off. And to think I was thinking about selling it. Anyone else ever had that happen? Just curious. Jim
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My 1930 did that too! I had two problems, the shutoff was not totally shutting off, and the float valve in the carb was not sealing well. So what this would create over time was a gas tank very very very slowly emptying, and a carburetor with a little fuel evaporating in the intake venturi path to the intake manifold.

Once I fixed the valve (replaced it) and rebuilt the carb, no more EZ starts, the old girl was back to her cranky self again!
 
My huckster will fire up easy but still needs a bit of the choke. The coupe needs to crank over a bit with choke out before it thinks about starting.
 
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