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Old 07-18-2009, 10:58 AM
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Originally Posted by Silverback51 View Post
I'm with Patrick on this one.

Mine sets for up to a month at times in the Winter before I can get it out. All I do is turn the key, turn on the fuel pump and let it fill the carb's for 20 to 30 seconds and start it up.
... and I've got a mechanical fuel pump on mine. Seriously though, except in the dead of winter (when I don't drive it anyway) two or three pumps on the throttle and if it doesn't start within two or three seconds then there's something wrong with it. Now then after that I do have to "feather" the throttle a little bit for about 30 seconds or so before it will idle. A Toyota it is not. It's usually drivable in three or four minutes from a completely cold start. Now this is a an old-style Holley 4160 Vac. Sec. 750 -- the choke is totally gone. Gone, gone, gone... and never to be found.
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