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 BASHOdi
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| posted on February 6th, 2007 at 12:26 PM |
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Choke cable ???
Can anyone tell me where the choke cable run is on a beetle, its a 62 pan and a 64 body, the dash hole is easy but after that I'm realy not sure and
appart from acknowledging that there is one in older cars the manuals I have are curiously silent thereafter.
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| posted on February 6th, 2007 at 12:29 PM |
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there is no choke cable on a early 60s Beetle
They utilise an Electonic choke which is on the left hand side on the carby looking at it
there should be a black wire running to the ignition coil
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| posted on February 6th, 2007 at 01:03 PM |
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Manual choke on Solex 28 PCI, on 36hp 1200.
Automatic on Solex 28 PICT, from start of 40hp only? ie. from 1961?
There should be no choke cable either way then. |
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| posted on February 7th, 2007 at 08:54 AM |
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Thanks guys praps I should explain further, the beetle I recently bought has a twin throat weber with no electronic choke--and no choke cable--It does
however have choke flap in the carby with the provision to fit a cable, even though the external cable fitting attachment is AWOL.
Now I can buy the external carby fitting for the cable--maybe--I can certainly fabricate one if not and like I wrote the hole in the dash is already
there, my don't know is the cable run between the dash and the engine --I "think" (dangerous)--that they used to run through the fan housing with
the throttle cable at the engine end--but I realy just don't know.
Why would I bother--In summer praps hardly worth it , just sit a bit and warm up the engine--in winter weeeelll we get down to 0c here in good ole
Ipswich sometimes and visions of flat batterys and stuffed starter motors thru to much cranking and much foul language and vanishing bucks come to
mind----and it's still summer aaarrrgggh
Hope that makes it a bit clearer,like I wrote realy gratefull for any help on this,
Cheers AL .
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| posted on February 7th, 2007 at 09:47 AM |
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Centre mount carbs can be a pain in the cold due to the long intake, especially with no choke. If the inlet has pre-heats coming from the exhaust like
a stock intake it wont be so bad.
The original choke cable conduit ran inside the tunnel, with the accel cable and clutch cable conduits. You could run a cable through the tunnel, and
then through the fan housing like stock 36hp etc, but I would think it would be more trouble and effort than it would be worth.
I would just let it warm up a little and all will be good.
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| posted on February 7th, 2007 at 02:20 PM |
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If it is like my weber progressive (in a kombi) you'll need all the help you can get in winter! Maybe more important than the choke is heating the
manifold and getting hot air into the intake.
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| posted on February 7th, 2007 at 11:28 PM |
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A choke cable that ran all the way from the dash to the engine without any kinks in it would be very long and probably difficult to move. I'd run the
cable along the top pf the tunnel from beside of the hand brake handle near the heater controls. You would need to make a bracket there to hold the
cable knob. Maybe you could use one of the heater controls and a longer cable as a choke cable.
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| posted on February 8th, 2007 at 01:02 PM |
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Yes,
I've thought of using one of the heater controls as a choke cable and then thought about using an early model choke cable...
as the carby I'm using has a manual choke , but one of the locals has an auto choke etc for the weber carby I have, but I didn't get around to it
during this winter and I have a small length of choke cable attached to the carby so I can activate the choke by pushing the end of the cable , and
after I drive a short distance, I stop and turn it off, although going down town is OK, so I switch it off after I've arrived....
but My manifold heater was blocked and now its clear and working I didn't use the choke unless it was very cold....
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| posted on February 9th, 2007 at 06:55 AM |
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Mate,
do you know where the ingress point was on the tunnel for the cable/conduit by any chance ???
Cheers , Al .
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posted by xornge666x
Centre mount carbs can be a pain in the cold due to the long intake, especially with no choke. If the inlet has pre-heats coming from the exhaust like
a stock intake it wont be so bad.
The original choke cable conduit ran inside the tunnel, with the accel cable and clutch cable conduits. You could run a cable through the tunnel, and
then through the fan housing like stock 36hp etc, but I would think it would be more trouble and effort than it would be worth.
I would just let it warm up a little and all will be good.
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| posted on February 9th, 2007 at 02:45 PM |
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here is a pic, best I could find.
its left hand drive, but gives you an idea of where it goes in.
I cant remember if it goes in the other side on RHD.
I would be more inclined to run it along the floor pan on the inside where the steel brake line runs, and exit the rear of the pan on the other side
to where your battery cable goes to the starter. A LOT less work, and when you put decent carbs on it you can just pull it out!
I would also probably look at other carby options before going to all that effort just to suit a carb thats on the engine.
You could also look at the single 40mm solex kit available now with electric choke.
Or a good old 34pic3 (std 1600).
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| posted on February 9th, 2007 at 07:31 PM |
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It is in the same position on RHD pan
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| posted on February 10th, 2007 at 09:15 AM |
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Thanks very much for that fellas,
:beer
Cheers , Al .
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