Electric choke kit
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Electric choke kit
I've been trying to source an electric choke kit locally and no one seems to have one. Napa says they're obsolete and no longer sells them. The carb is the 4-barrel Holley that came on my 390. The little stove pipes for the choke are broken and I don't really feel like getting new ones, i'd rather just get an electric one, or even a manual one. Anyone know where kits can be had for these? I searched summit and jegs but got frustrated with their catalogs and quit...
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Consider a manual choke
I got the manual kit from O'Reilly's, used a manual choke cable with bezel from a '67 F-100. Mounted it in the cigarette ligher hole of the '79 F-150 dash. So now it looks completely factory original and even says "Choke"! Now for the great part: The '79 351M 2V carb has a cold choke 2 stage "ramp" that gives you high RPM when the choke is pulled out. But also keeps the RPM up as you open the choke to a certain point. As you open beyond that point, the RPMs drop to warm idle setting. So the manual choke gives you a sort of hand throttle option for fast idle if you want to use your pickup to charge the battery on another, or if you want to run at a fast idle for whatever reason.
Pretty handy and you never have to worry about the choke sticking again. Oh, and your wife will have a handy place to hang her purse, if you don't mind black exhaust smoke
Pretty handy and you never have to worry about the choke sticking again. Oh, and your wife will have a handy place to hang her purse, if you don't mind black exhaust smoke
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