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On Sun, 2004-11-07 at 19:43, Steven Cooper wrote: > Does anybody know the part no.s for a rebuild kit for stock 72 twin carbs > and the electric choke element. Speaking of the choke, many times the > comment has been made that the auto choke is detrimental. What are the > peoples' opinion on this? How exactly do you disable or disconnect the auto > choke? Would it be OK to simply remove the choke butterfly? There is a set of Genuine Solex kits up on Ebay right now. http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7932949951&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT Ships worldwide. Only reason people say to unhook the chokes, is that they don't know how to repair or adjust them. I think most of that comes from areas like Southern California where it never gets below 50 degrees F. I live in an area that can be over 100 degrees F in the summer and has been known to get below -20 degrees F in the winter. Now I have never had problems with chokes on any of my cars. Both air cooled and water cooled. And, I don't remember every having an engine fail to start in cold weather. The biggest thing, is to make sure that the choke pull-offs work. This will get the choke plates out of the way as soon as the engine starts. -- Russ Wolfe '71 FB AT '66 FB MT '64 T34 (not running) '65 T1 (not running) russw@classicvw.org http://www.classicvw.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~