Cannot turn choke off

[tallaghan]

Hi there all

Hope you are all doing well. From time to time my choke remains permanently engaged and I cannot turn it off. The choke lever works fine but it sometimes has no effect.

If I remove the choke from the carb and re-insert it, it usually fixes the problem for a period of time but eventually the problem re-occurs.

Is this something anyone else has experienced? Should I just replace the entire choke cable

Thanks in advance for your help. It's a great site.

Michael

[blaine]

Originally Posted by tallaghan

Hi there all

Hope you are all doing well. From time to time my choke remains permanently engaged and I cannot turn it off. The choke lever works fine but it sometimes has no effect.

If I remove the choke from the carb and re-insert it, it usually fixes the problem for a period of time but eventually the problem re-occurs.

Is this something anyone else has experienced? Should I just replace the entire choke cable

Thanks in advance for your help. It's a great site.

Michael

Have you tried lubing the cable,and make sure that the bore in the carb is clean & clear of any rust so the choke plunger can move freely.
:cool:

[tallaghan]

Now that I think of it there was some rusty deposits the when I removed the choke from the carb for the first time. I cleaned them out but the last time I removed the choke from the carb there was more rusty deposits

Those rusty deposits are probably coming down from around the cable.

I should probably take the choke completely off, remove the housing from around it and make sure everything is clean. If I can pick up a new choke cable cheaply it may be just as easy to replace the whole thing

Thanks for your help

[jonathan180iq]

Lube the cable.
(Better late than never. )

[geezer]

is the spring there when you removed the cable from carb? my choke would hang up alittle i ended up triming a bit off the spring so it wouldnt interfier with cable movemtn

[tallaghan]

the spring is still there alright. I might try that to see if it helps

thanks

[sc_frontier]

I have honed the choke opening with 400 grit sandpaper in the past, just enough to smooth down spots of aluminum corrosion, and polished the brass choke plunger.

[tallaghan]

just to update for anyone looking at this thread in the future, I just needed to remove choke from carb and clean out the entry point