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geezer#99 · 03-05-2015, 10:05 PM

The button is there to keep the choke wide open. I removed it to make the action of the choke smoother. It always seemed to hang up a bit when I pulled on the choke.
I lived in a cold climate then. Anything to make the choke action smoother when firing up the old beast at 10*F helped.

03-05-2015, 10:05 PM	#15
geezer#99 Registered User Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Bowser Posts: 13,522	Re: Carburetor The button is there to keep the choke wide open. I removed it to make the action of the choke smoother. It always seemed to hang up a bit when I pulled on the choke. I lived in a cold climate then. Anything to make the choke action smoother when firing up the old beast at 10*F helped.