electric choke

[Zkast]

Actually when its cold and the choke is set, you want to make sure the choke plate is completly closed. Have someone start (or try to start) the engine and watch the plate. Once the engine starts there needs to be slightly less than 1/4" of gap between the plate and the air horn, About the thickness of a pencil. If not then your choke pulloff is either not hooked up/bad/mis adjusted. This adjustment will vary depending on the climate, colder area's require less gap/more fuel.

If your choke is working properly and its still a PITA to start, double check your accelerator pump, make sure you have a good stream of fuel on every pump.

On the other hand, if the engine seems almost flooded when you finaly get it started (and the choke is opening ok) you could have the ole Q-jet leak down blues lol. The Jet well plugs on the bottom of the carb leak by nature. This causes the fuel bowl to drain into the intake, leaving a pool of fuel in the intake AND an empty fuel bowl. This makes start times high depending on how bad the plugs are leaking.

Let us know how the choke is doing then we can go from there.