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• Re: /f spreewell: Whats up with that?
  Historical mailing list - Joel Walker
  Fri, 12 Dec 1997 12:33:38 CST
  ...Spreewell chokes his coach and gets fired for life. >Peewee Herman chokes his chicken and gets fired for life. Whats up with >that? well...
• Re: /f spreewell: Whats up with that?
  Historical mailing list - Sudhir Desai
  Fri, 12 Dec 1997 20:24:58 -0500
  ...Spreewell chokes his coach and gets fired for life. > >Peewee Herman chokes his chicken and gets fired for life. Whats up with > >that? > > well...
• Re: (F) Re: New Toy / I'll Have My Rodent Well-Done
  Historical mailing list - George Goff
  Fri, 24 Sep 2004 21:45:17 EDT
  In a message dated 9/24/04 3:20:07 PM, gnarlodious@EARTHLINK.NET writes: << Diesels don't have a choke :-) >> Sorry to cause...
• Re: Leefers? we don't need no stinkin' leefers! what we need iz
  Historical mailing list - John Pinkham
  Thu, 26 May 94 10:34:49 EDT
  Those VW "climate control" levers are about as intuitive as the choke on my Norton Commando. Pull the choke lever to unchoke it. Return...
• Re: Substitute for aircooled thermostat
  Historical mailing list - Richard Jones
  Tue, 22 Feb 2011 07:00:30 -0700
  ...How about an old-fashioned "choke cable" from under the driver seat to move the flaps? Do they even make choke cables anymore? I...
• Re: (F) Re: New Toy / I'll Have My Rodent Well-Done
  Historical mailing list - Gnarlodious
  Fri, 24 Sep 2004 13:00:13 -0600
  Entity George Goff spoke thus: > smoking like a diesel with its choke left on Diesels don't have a choke :-) -- Gnarlie
• Need Carb/Electric Choke/Vacuum Hose Help
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 19 Sep 95 10:30:03 EDT
  hey now, i need some help here....i think my gas milage problem is a result of either the carb or electric choke not...
• Re: whining speedometer and oil usage
  Historical mailing list - Terry Kay
  Sun, 7 Jan 2001 11:38:56 -0600
  ...Carb and choke, will clean just about anything, especially old caked up grease, or heavy oil residue. ______________ |[ ] [ ] [ ]\ | | | | ||-(())----(())-| Terry 85 GL
• /f spreewell: Whats up with that?
  Historical mailing list - kenneth d lewis
  Fri, 12 Dec 1997 13:26:23 EST
  ...Spreewell chokes his coach and gets fired for life. Peewee Herman chokes his chicken and gets fired for life. Whats up with that? Drive...
• Re: Need Carb/Electric Choke/Vacuum Hose Help
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 19 Sep 1995 07:57:41 -0700 (PDT)
  ...i've read hayes and the > idiot's guide but still don't exactly know how to go about checking the carb/ > choke. i...
• Re: Plugs & Compression testing
  Historical mailing list - Austin
  Sun, 10 Nov 1996 01:26:53 -0800
  ...t know if there's actually a difference between a wide open intake tract & one choked off by a closed throttle (and choke). Austin
• '86 vanagon choke problem?
  Historical mailing list - Darie Duclos
  Wed, 3 Apr 1996 10:07:17 +0200 (MET DST)
  ...turn it off When I do this, it comes off the choke (apparently) and if any light inside are on, they get brighter Car...
• '56 Controls
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 5 Jan 1996 16:54:27 -0500
  ...The one the drivers side is, ironically, the choke. What is the other one? Is it the reserve control for the fuel tank? The...
• Re: minor idle problem when cold
  Historical mailing list - Coconis
  Thu, 6 Nov 1997 17:00:20 +0200
  From experience I can tell that the reason may be an automatic choke failure (if your carburettor has an automatic choke element). How to...
• Re: Friday NVC: British Carburettor hilarity
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Fri, 15 Oct 2010 18:06:15 -0400
  ...Depression <--> Vacuum Throttle <--> Throttle Choke <--> Venturi Strangler <--> Choke I lusted after a Unisyn...as I recall it cost about $30, which was a lot...
• Re: DIESEL starting and other general questions
  Historical mailing list - kfilc
  Tue, 18 Nov 2003 00:16:30 -0000
  Hi there, the choke knob is actually not a choke you find in the older cars. A real choke has to pushed back after...
• More automatic choke ?s
  Historical mailing list
  Sun, 19 May 1996 22:56:34 -0400
  Okay, today I torn into the automatice choke to see what I could find. It appears that the coils winds the opposite direction that...
• Re: 1966 Split Bus - What Carb ?
  Historical mailing list - DOUGLAS
  Wed, 26 Jun 1996 09:35:55 -0700
  ...The engine is currently fitted with some strange carb > with a manual choke on it. I have a few SOLEX carbs lying around in...
• Automatic Choke ?(added info)
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 15 May 1996 01:19:54 -0400
  ...I own a 76 bus, and the automatic choke is definitely not working properly. When the engine is off the coil in side the...
• Re: Subject: Re: 1966 Split Bus - What Carb ?
  Historical mailing list - Douglas
  Mon, 01 Jul 1996 22:10:52 -0700
  ...As you note, your Germany domestic model had manual choke. If memory is correct, the automatic choke was introduced first to the US market...
• Re: Digijet Aux Air Valve
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Fri, 27 Oct 2000 08:38:39 -0400
  ...It also has a heating element that warms it up and makes it close -- exactly like Federal-spec automatic chokes except that they open...
• Flat off idle
  Historical mailing list - Scott Sullivan
  Thu, 27 Mar 2003 17:45:38 -0800
  ...He has an �82 with carburetors and a manual choke on it. Here are the symptoms. It idles fine when the throttles are open...
• solex 28 pic & 28 pict
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Tue, 4 Jul 1995 18:10:11 -0700 (PDT)
  ...I have 2 carbs, a 28 pic or pci (can't get it straight), the one with the manual choke, and a 28 pict...
• Re: mileage
  Historical mailing list - EMZ
  Wed, 18 Mar 1998 12:00:12 -0500
  ...any more!!!!!!!!!!!!!! When is the last time you had to adjust your Vanagons AUTOMATIC CHOKE? > > on our, van on the second engine my mom...
• Re: mileage
  Historical mailing list - Sudhir Desai
  Wed, 18 Mar 1998 19:20:51 -0500
  On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, EMZ wrote: > When is the last time you had to adjust your Vanagons > AUTOMATIC CHOKE? then you tell me...
• Carb Rebuild (Timing adjustment update) Suggestions needed...
  Historical mailing list - johnny89
  Sun, 31 Dec 1995 12:13:38 -0300
  ...The receptacle for the auto choke is not perfectly round. It took me a time to get the auto choke coil back into the...
• SUMMARY: '86 vanagon choke problem?
  Historical mailing list - Darie Duclos
  Mon, 15 Apr 1996 11:34:48 +0200 (MET DST)
  ...It was pointed out to me (thanks Tim) that my engine is fuel injection, so you can ignore the bit about the choke in...
• Re: More carb troubles
  Historical mailing list - John Ritchie
  Fri, 28 Oct 1994 21:18:21 -0800 (PDT)
  ...Adjusting the choke may help too, but instead of wiring in a resistor or so, I'd try just adjusting the chokes back a...
• Re: DPO's cablemania
  Historical mailing list - Mark Hineline
  Mon, 15 Nov 2010 12:00:47 -0800
  Is that like a choke cable? On Nov 15, 2010, at 11:59 AM, Michael Snow wrote: > Diesel cold-start cable?
• Combi Relay
  Historical mailing list - David Chasteen
  Sun, 22 Mar 1998 21:09:55 -0600
  ...When engine warms up, begins to miss, run rich, and finally chokes out. When ambient temperature is over 70F, engine starts badly, misses, smokes...
• Re: Can I replace a Solex 28 PICT with 30 PICT 2?
  Historical mailing list - Jon Christensen
  Sun, 9 Jun 1996 08:09:01 -0500 (CDT)
  ...These had a manual choke and you'd have to add the choke cable some how. The 30 Solex does need an adapter. You...
• Re: Query about knob on '60
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 13 May 1996 06:35:23 -0500 (EST)
  The knob to the left to the of the heater control should be the choke control....the one to the right controls the reserve...
• Re: Substitute for aircooled thermostat
  Historical mailing list - Tom Hargrave
  Tue, 22 Feb 2011 08:39:27 -0600
  ...How about an old-fashioned "choke cable" from under the driver seat to move the flaps? Do they even make choke cables anymore? I...
• Re: '56 Controls
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 4 Jan 1996 15:08:25 -0800 (PST)
  ...The one the drivers side is, ironically, the choke. What is the > other one? Is it the reserve control for the fuel tank? The...
• Re: Vanagon's and Carburetors - Again
  Historical mailing list - Kenneth Lewis
  Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:01:06 -0400
  40 IDFs typically come with 26mm chokes. Might be a bit restrictive for a 2.1L. What size engine did they come off? -- Ken...
• Is this thing on?
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:35:09 -0700
  ...Is that possible? Did Gerry choke on the olive in his post-prandial Martini? -- Jake 1984 Vanagon GL 1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie" www.crescentbeachguitar...
• NVC hillbillies
  Historical mailing list - Tom Boldway
  Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:08:52 -0800
  On 1/16/08, Jim Felder <jim.felder@gmail.com> wrote:>> I was behind one of those leviathans recently carrying a single> drool-choked...
• '56 Controls
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 4 Jan 1996 15:56:37 -0500
  ...The one the drivers side is, ironically, the choke. What is the other one? Is it the reserve control for the fuel tank? The...
• DIESEL starting and other general questions
  Historical mailing list - Felder
  Mon, 17 Nov 2003 18:31:34 -0800
  ...I've never used the choke/knob until the last few days because the car started and ran without it, no matter what the...
• Owner's Manual for '73 Westphalia?
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 7 Jul 1994 13:31:34 -0400
  ...Is this some sort of heater/fresh air control? At first I thought it might be a manual choke, but the van has an...
• Re: Muffler Strap
  Historical mailing list - Miguel Calvin
  Wed, 7 Nov 2001 13:48:30 -0500
  ...The kind they call a choker. It is the heavy duty type they use for pitbulls and the like. You have to trim it...
• Carb conversions?
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Wed, 16 Aug 2006 20:16:16 -0400
  ...Can we say backfire, raw fuel in cylinders, black smoke? Choke pull off/Heater! Moist after market either do not have chokes, or the...
• Re: Flat off idle
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Thu, 27 Mar 2003 19:55:41 -0600
  ...He has an 82 with carburetors and a > manual choke on it. Here are the symptoms. It idles fine when the > throttles are open...
• Re: Can Germans make a decent two stoke engine?
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Tue, 7 Nov 2000 22:19:53 +1200
  ...I find that putting it on full choke won't start it; after a few pulls on full choke, I back the knob off...
• Re: subscribe[F]
  Historical mailing list - Dave Black
  Wed, 1 Feb 1995 09:50:07 -0700 (MST)
  ...asdflk > > > > > > ';lksdf;'kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk > > This person (Patrick?) is gonna fit in juuuuuust fine... =) > Quick! Subscribe him before he chokes to death! Dave '71 Westfalia & SB
• Re: Rough starting in cold weather
  Historical mailing list - Kent Christensen
  Sun, 12 Dec 1999 10:12:11 -0700
  ...The solution has usually been "choke," i.e. making the mixture richer so some of it, at least, gets there. Reason some intake manifolds...
• Re: Friday -for you on the east coast of NA
  Historical mailing list - Bill M
  Sat, 9 Feb 2013 11:58:55 -0500
  ...I didn't shut off the choke all the way. While refueling the generator I heard the tree right next to my Westy making...
• Re: dome lights...wasRe: vw /OEM quality replacement for driver side interior light
  Historical mailing list - TC
  Mon, 6 Mar 2006 10:47:23 -0800
  ...hehe choke us190 + shipping http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=249655
• When Is A Project Finished?
  Historical mailing list - Jeffrey Earl
  Wed, 18 Aug 2004 10:18:43 -0700
  ...We pushed one car into the garage stall, dragged another to a friend's weed-choked backyard, and were left with two British Racing...
• Re: SALTWATER FUEL-wood burning vehicles of ww2
  Historical mailing list - Courtney Hook
  Mon, 3 Dec 2007 09:14:58 -0800
  Anyone seen the woodburning vehicles that the germans came up with in WW2? They basically choked down a woodfire until it gave off ignitable...
• Re: gas mileage tanks....
  Historical mailing list - Mark Dorm
  Sun, 27 Aug 2000 01:35:42 PDT
  ...Nice thing about old carburated engines is with a manual >choke you could open it up and keep the engine revved about 1700 rpm...
• Re: Choked starting?
  Historical mailing list - Miguel Pacheco
  Thu, 28 Mar 2013 13:14:52 -0600
  If you are talking about the hose that connects to the throttle body, yes, you should clamp that. Any air that gets in there...
• Fast idle
  Historical mailing list - John Matchett
  Mon, 2 Mar 1998 12:05:38 -0500
  ...park it hits 15-17krpm unledd I hit the pedal fast and gas it...(cut off choke). COuld this be an O2 sensor problem?
• Re: was: Lowering the Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Jerry Granito
  Tue, 18 Jan 2000 14:15:52 EST
  The (gasp, choke,cough,cough) Bus Boys have a set of lowering springs on their site for $495.00.....If you ordered it now...
• Re: NVC hillbillies
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:38:09 -0600
  II think this particular drool-choked hillbilly (probably the wrong word, probably should have said redneck, as I have nothing in particular against hillbillies...
• Re: Won't Start
  Historical mailing list - John Bange
  Tue, 25 Apr 2006 16:11:29 -0700
  ...were wet? > Either that, or your spark advance knob and hand choke controls are worn out. I hear you can replace the expensive VW...
• Re: Muffler Strap
  Historical mailing list - Doug Alcock
  Wed, 7 Nov 2001 13:55:10 -0500
  ...The kind they call a choker. It is the >heavy duty type they use for pitbulls and the like. You have to trim it...
• 2.1 wbxer stubblin' idle
  Historical mailing list - dylan friedman
  Tue, 4 Aug 2009 15:38:58 -0700
  ...Today low on power, idle is weak and chokes until hi revs. DigTool checked all that I could and all check out OK. No...
• Weber DFVA 32/36 not Working Well...
  Historical mailing list - Ken & Kaye Jarvis
  Sat, 31 Oct 1998 17:40:54 -0400
  ...It hesistates/chokes when you give it some gas and has no top end power. He's using a mechanical Bosch distributor (009). The...
• Re: What is THAT thing?
  Historical mailing list - Ari Ollikainen
  Wed, 14 Apr 1999 20:57:21 -0700
  ...Out of business several times in the past decade or so and variously rumored to be stealthily in business somewhere near SanJose converting <choke...