Electric Choke Frustrations

[Orion88]

I rebuild an Edelbrock Performer carburetor and installed it, along with a Performer EPS intake, onto the 350 of my 86 K10. Since it's the dead of winter here in Indiana I need the electric choke to be working properly and so far, it's not. I initially set it to where the choke was just barely closed when cold. When I would fire it up it would run perfect for about 5 seconds. Then it would start burbling and gurgling and sometimes it would flood itself out and die. If it didn't die it would eventually run properly at fast idle after a minute or so of almost flooding out. I tried rotating the cap while putting some pressure on the throttle but the choke won't move. Earlier when I would adjust it the choke would move in whichever direction I rotated the cap. Now it won't. So starting my truck when cold is a real chore right now. What's the deal with my choke?? I took the cap off this morning and everything looked ok so I put it back on and it still isn't working properly. Anyone ever have these issues?

Also, if your form of helping me out here is to tell me to throw the electric choke away and put on a manual choke, that's not helping. I spent the money on the electric choke so I am going to make it work right. I've read far too many positive reviews on this product to accept defeat. And I hated the last manual choke I had even more.