jeff kushner
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"when I was a young moose, we had carburetors with heat sensitive coil springs on the carbs. They worked either by electric current, or in earlier ones by a tube from the exhaust up to the carb."
That is some funny stuff right there!
My dad used to drive an XKE w 12 cylinders in a row, he also had a Conentinal. They weren't new but he liked them. When the first gas crunch hit in 73, he bought what was the Civic. The choke was a rod to the plate going up through a "cup" filled with wax. You got in, pressed the petal once or 100 times, the rod stuck in the wax & choke activated until the heat of the engine would melt it allowing the rod/plate to open. Not sure if the EGR ran though as it did on many cars but it still holds "my record" for weirdest but cool tech.
Yeah, I warm my engines since "cold engine/cold oil" & "hot engine/cold oil" combinations are both #2 & 3 on the most destructive time any engine is run(startup is #1).
jeff
That is some funny stuff right there!
My dad used to drive an XKE w 12 cylinders in a row, he also had a Conentinal. They weren't new but he liked them. When the first gas crunch hit in 73, he bought what was the Civic. The choke was a rod to the plate going up through a "cup" filled with wax. You got in, pressed the petal once or 100 times, the rod stuck in the wax & choke activated until the heat of the engine would melt it allowing the rod/plate to open. Not sure if the EGR ran though as it did on many cars but it still holds "my record" for weirdest but cool tech.
Yeah, I warm my engines since "cold engine/cold oil" & "hot engine/cold oil" combinations are both #2 & 3 on the most destructive time any engine is run(startup is #1).
jeff