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  1. SNClocks

    General Tech To choke or not to choke – that is a Weber question!

    Our bugeye came to us with a Weber 40 DCOE. Never owned a car with Weber’s before, but hey? It started with no choke and ran. What more could one ask? OK – it ran. But it hesitated a bit when I floored it, and what’s up with the starting without needing the choke. And if you do use the choke –...
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    Cold Start Problems BN7

    Working on a friend's BN7 with H8(maybe HD8) carbs. When trying to cold start it will do a quick hit and die for a while then when it finally does start it spits and pops through the carbs. After it is warmed up, everything it smooth other than it hesitates when pulling off from a full stop...
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    Enrichener [choke] wire

    I just replaced the wire to the enrichener (choke) on one of the carbs on my BT7 tricarb. After around half an hour of fiddling, trying to get the wire into the small hole in the wire nipple (without loosing the nipple) it struck me that the task is much simpler if you lift the lever on the carb...
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    1960 BT7 choke location

    I have a 1960 BT7-- car #2229-- that has the choke located under the dash near the steering column. From looking at the Moss catalog, mine looks like a BN7 setup. The mounting looks factory. However, there is a hole covered with a chrome disk where the choke is located on all of the BT7s that I...
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