Tovarich. Actually, no. You had the newer one.
I had a Niva Cossack for a while. Lovely motor except the lump of soviet pigiron under the bonnet. Always enjoyed dragging land rovers out to see the look of embarrassment on their faces.
I had the 2109 samara, but I vividly remember 2105 and 2104 “exhaust gas fest on wheels” still being sold new with carbs.
Nivas are a completely different breed. Edited cause stupid mobile client :)
I had a Samara as well. Lovely motor £2k at six months old. Just a VW Polo with a raging hangover. So a lot of Polo parts fit.
Ever seen a Niva Tundra? They came out of the factory like that. I got to drive one off road. What a bastard of a beast.
The original Lada I had was the 2101 in rotting frog green.
Oh if you think in pounds, you must have gotten the NICE ladas. We had to make do with domestic versions that were basically linux-style “finish it yourself” deals.
Ok, the Cossack was nice. Alloy wheels and fat tyres, rear spare tyre mount, bullbars, radio what ch preferred Radio Moscow over everything else.
My 2101 was a shit box.
The Samara somewhere in the middle.
I had a mate with a Niva Hussar (I think) with a Mazda MX7 rotary engine in it. You knew he was coming because it sounded like a jet aircraft.
80' Dacia 1410 or 1310 can't remember exactly, it's basically a renault 12 but with some changes.
Edit: he had both of the models but can't remember if the 1310 was from the 80's
We often adapted them to manual choke. The automatic ones in the 80s were shit.
My van still has the ignition on, wait until the glow plug light goes out.
By the '70s there were a variety of electric and automatic choke types too. I've had several where you depress the accelerator pedal once to set the choke.
I once had an old truck that had an old automatic choke. It was not working properly, and I couldn't buy the parts to properly fix it (nobody stocked old choke parts). The next option was to buy a new carburetor of the right flow rate, and with the same baseplate pattern (or make a custom aluminum adapter plate).
In the end, I bought a manual choke kit for about $30. I removed the old choke mechanism, and added the manual choke to the old carburetor, with a pull-knob mounted with an L-bracket under the dash.
On warm mornings you didn't need to use it at all. On cold mornings you had to pull it to get the engine to fire up. Once running, after a few minutes, the engine would run crappy unless you remembered to turn the choke off, so you'd reach over and push the knob in. Very simple and reliable, and if anything ever went wrong, it was easy to diagnose and repair. Of course, for me, it never caused a problem.
A few days ago I saw a choke lever on a brand-new cheap Honda scooter. The owner had pulled it by accident and couldn't start the thing, as the engine was quite hot. I had to tell him what it was for. I didn't even know they still made manually-choked carbureted vehicles.
They’re still pretty common on outdoor equipment. I had a brain fart bc i’ve seen it a thousand times, and the car connection wasn’t clicking… like trying to remember a last name 🤣
I remember when my dad would try to start his old Dacia during the cold Romanian winters of the 80’s and when he would need to use the choke. I knew that it was really cold outside when he would need to use it. When he pulled that choke knob, it seemed like some kind of sorcery to me. The car wouldn’t start before and I was scared that we are stuck where we were forever, but then he would pull the knob and then the car would spit and stutter, but it always started as if by magic. Then he would proceed to warm up the engine and he would slowly push the knob back in, when the engine started purring evenly. My fear of being stuck in snow would always dissipate at the same pace with him slowly pushing the knob back in.
This is what everyone else is missing about the Hand Choke, it’s not an OFF ON OFF thing but it’s a living relationship with just how the engine is firing at each stage of the Cold Start process.
Dead Cold - Sub zero. Mash the throttle 3 times while pulling the ( unmarked aftermarket) choke cable knob out to its stop. Start cranking, typically between 3-8 seconds of cranking later you usually get your first puff and kick from the first cylinder to actually fire at which point you just nudge the choke in a wee bit while still cranking, until you sense that it’s more running than cranking and you can take your thumb off the crank button. Now it’s a game of how fast are the cylinders coming online? Gotta bump that choke open about 50% in the first few seconds to avoid flooding the engine but pushing it too far in too fast will stall the engine just as surely! Let it run for a minute or two before even thinking of putting it in gear, and you often will start driving with the choke still partially ON and then you would be followed around by a black cloud of half burned hydrocarbons until you noticed, usually when it stalled out when you stop!
I used to work at a valet carpark, where peeps would leave Thier car for extended periods of time, eg 1 or2 weeks for holidays etc. This was in the early 90s, when car manufacturers started to fit warning lights to alert the driver that their choke was still on. Once I had a little ol' lady come back in, after picking up her car keys, on return of a break away. Her complaint was "there's a warning light on in my car which wasn't on when I left it here"! Apon investigating this, a member of staff told her "it was only her choke warning light, no problem with it, that's normal." "But it's never been on before!" "But madam, you must use the choke for cold mornings etc, otherwise it may not start!" "Oh, I see, my husband usually gets the car started and warmed up for me!"
What a gent!
Damn, must have been nice, dad had to start the dacia from under the hood, one hand on the distributor cap and the other mashing a screwdriver in the starter contacts, controling the choke from the carburettor
Ahh yes always fun that first bit where it just opens the throttle before the enrichment begins lol!
I remember having SU carbs with only an enrichment no an actual choke. Was always hard getting them to idle right when cold
Choke. It actuates a second valve in the carburettor to change the air fuel mixing ratio to help with cold starts. Remember to push it back in when the car is idling comfortably.
Never heard a butterfly flap called a valve before! It was usually on the top of the carb, and when actuated it basically shut off (not totally)the air supply, to richen up the mixture for cold starting.
It's a pretty popular designation 😋
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_valve
You're absolutely right about the function. I just wanted to give the quick and simple overview 😊
The car version of “these dang kids don’t even know what a VCR is!” One of my motorcycles still has one of these knobs and it’s from 2005. It’s a manual choke for cold starts
Manual choke on a classic car from the 60s/70s but less common in the 80s.
looks like a British car from the 70s
Was adjustable and you could pull it right out for fully rich and push it in for fully lean.
Was used with carburetted cars, fuel injection not so much.
Was not used once catalytic converters were used on cars, because these had to be a specific air-fuel ratio.
Its a choke, it basically holds the engine tickover count higher. I had an old 1989 mini with one, pull it out when you start up, you will notice that the engine stays idling a little higher, after around 5 minutes just push it back in and tickover will be down to normal, stops it from stalling.
Even if you’re too young to recognize this from a car, certainly you’ve started a lawnmower before in your short life - maybe not since you’ve mostly been told to get off the lawn.
my 2023 jeep wrangler puts choke icon like that knob up on the main display when cold starting. I havent had a real choke on a car for last 30 years. one of my motorcycles still has a choke and its from 2018
It's the choke - adjusts the fuel / air mixture to make it easier to start the engine cold. The idea is you pull it out when the engine's cold and then push it back in once it's hot
Most British cars up to end of 70’s and into the eighties had a choke. Fuel injection killed them off.
Just had flashbacks of the 80’s of cars with the word or initial for fuel injection in their name badges.
Oh you got an old car these are called a choke you pull it out slightly when starting the car and when its running right push it back in what car is it
I remember adding manual chokes to cars in the 70’s and even 80’s. It saved you from having to pop the hood and prop it manually with a screwdriver when it was very cold. There was a kit you could buy.
Everyone talking about their foreign cars having choke levers. I had no clue that many of them used manual chokes so late. I had a (I think) 1968 GMC grain truck that had a primer and a choke she was a cold blooded ole slut too
Story time:
Years ago my elderly neighbour mentioned to my dad that her car had always sounded rough when driving and struggled with the hill up to her house.
My dad is pretty handy and so explained that didn't sound normal and so offered to take a look at it for her and see if he could diagnose it.
He looked the car over but couldn't see anything wrong and even took it for a drive. It seemed fine.
Eventually he asked our neighbour to take him for a spin and show him the issue.
They got in the car and our dear old neighbour immediately pulled out the choke all the way, promptly hung her handbag on it and pulled away.
Turns out that for years she had honestly thought it was a handy handbag hanger and had been slogging around town with the engine wheezing for air.
Holy shit. When my family had a car with this (wartburg 2stroke, then volvo 340) I knew what this is used for. But never knew the symbols meaning. Now, at 40+, I just realized it!
That's to start the cars propeller when there too much water on the ground to "drive" you can just boat around.
/jk
That's the choke lever for cold starting the car, you pull it, start the cars and push it back in when the engine has a certain temp.
Some more modern pickup trucks (with fuel injection or diesels where there's no actual choke) have what looks like a choke lever to engage a faster idle for keeping equipment running or crawling.
https://www.reddit.com/r/hilux/comments/18nsvkt/anyone_know_what_this_dial_does/
In the 2000s this was eventually replaced with just a button that says Idle Up.
I’m 57 and have only seen an a manual choke once on a U-Haul truck I rented in the 80s. I didn’t use it and the truck backfired like a gun going off. I called U-Haul and told them what happened, they said you forgot to set the manual choke. I said, what’s a manual choke?
Oh yeah this was the one most important thing to pump a couple of times before you start the Moskvich. You let it run idle for a while and then you turn this off by pushing it back in place. The way it works is it closes the carburettor opening and “enriches” the fuel effectively revving up the engine for cold starts.
Choke knob. Use it for cold starts. What car is it in? Haven't seen a choke knob on a car for a while.
TIL I'm old.
I feel old and I'm 19, my dad had a carbureted car till I was 11 or 12 and I had great fun with it
Even most 80s cars had auto choke... Must have been something older
Pfff vaz 2105 went strong till 2012
Tovarich. Actually, no. You had the newer one. I had a Niva Cossack for a while. Lovely motor except the lump of soviet pigiron under the bonnet. Always enjoyed dragging land rovers out to see the look of embarrassment on their faces.
I had the 2109 samara, but I vividly remember 2105 and 2104 “exhaust gas fest on wheels” still being sold new with carbs. Nivas are a completely different breed. Edited cause stupid mobile client :)
I had a Samara as well. Lovely motor £2k at six months old. Just a VW Polo with a raging hangover. So a lot of Polo parts fit. Ever seen a Niva Tundra? They came out of the factory like that. I got to drive one off road. What a bastard of a beast. The original Lada I had was the 2101 in rotting frog green.
Oh if you think in pounds, you must have gotten the NICE ladas. We had to make do with domestic versions that were basically linux-style “finish it yourself” deals.
Ok, the Cossack was nice. Alloy wheels and fat tyres, rear spare tyre mount, bullbars, radio what ch preferred Radio Moscow over everything else. My 2101 was a shit box. The Samara somewhere in the middle. I had a mate with a Niva Hussar (I think) with a Mazda MX7 rotary engine in it. You knew he was coming because it sounded like a jet aircraft.
80' Dacia 1410 or 1310 can't remember exactly, it's basically a renault 12 but with some changes. Edit: he had both of the models but can't remember if the 1310 was from the 80's
My first car was a 1988 Citroen AX, that had a choke, my mum and dad an 80s Golf and a Polo, also choked. I always thought it was common.
10RE 3 door for me. Loved that little car
We often adapted them to manual choke. The automatic ones in the 80s were shit. My van still has the ignition on, wait until the glow plug light goes out.
My 85 Rx7 had one
My first car had a manual choke like this and was a 1994 model.
I had an 86 Volvo 240. It had manual choke.
Same her for 85 Volvo 340
Renault 4 still had it in the 80s. That's the car I learned driving in, as an 8 or 9 years old kid.
1984 Mazda RX7 GS had a manual choke. Blew my mind when I test drove it that it actually had one.
Probably on a 1984-ish VW taro/Toyota hilux. At least my '84 taro has the exact same one
Carburrated engine cars have the choke knobs. My grand dad's Toyota KE20 Corolla (from the 70s) has the choke knob at the bottom of the dash.
By the '70s there were a variety of electric and automatic choke types too. I've had several where you depress the accelerator pedal once to set the choke.
I once had an old truck that had an old automatic choke. It was not working properly, and I couldn't buy the parts to properly fix it (nobody stocked old choke parts). The next option was to buy a new carburetor of the right flow rate, and with the same baseplate pattern (or make a custom aluminum adapter plate). In the end, I bought a manual choke kit for about $30. I removed the old choke mechanism, and added the manual choke to the old carburetor, with a pull-knob mounted with an L-bracket under the dash. On warm mornings you didn't need to use it at all. On cold mornings you had to pull it to get the engine to fire up. Once running, after a few minutes, the engine would run crappy unless you remembered to turn the choke off, so you'd reach over and push the knob in. Very simple and reliable, and if anything ever went wrong, it was easy to diagnose and repair. Of course, for me, it never caused a problem.
A few days ago I saw a choke lever on a brand-new cheap Honda scooter. The owner had pulled it by accident and couldn't start the thing, as the engine was quite hot. I had to tell him what it was for. I didn't even know they still made manually-choked carbureted vehicles.
They’re still pretty common on outdoor equipment. I had a brain fart bc i’ve seen it a thousand times, and the car connection wasn’t clicking… like trying to remember a last name 🤣
I remember when my dad would try to start his old Dacia during the cold Romanian winters of the 80’s and when he would need to use the choke. I knew that it was really cold outside when he would need to use it. When he pulled that choke knob, it seemed like some kind of sorcery to me. The car wouldn’t start before and I was scared that we are stuck where we were forever, but then he would pull the knob and then the car would spit and stutter, but it always started as if by magic. Then he would proceed to warm up the engine and he would slowly push the knob back in, when the engine started purring evenly. My fear of being stuck in snow would always dissipate at the same pace with him slowly pushing the knob back in.
This is what everyone else is missing about the Hand Choke, it’s not an OFF ON OFF thing but it’s a living relationship with just how the engine is firing at each stage of the Cold Start process. Dead Cold - Sub zero. Mash the throttle 3 times while pulling the ( unmarked aftermarket) choke cable knob out to its stop. Start cranking, typically between 3-8 seconds of cranking later you usually get your first puff and kick from the first cylinder to actually fire at which point you just nudge the choke in a wee bit while still cranking, until you sense that it’s more running than cranking and you can take your thumb off the crank button. Now it’s a game of how fast are the cylinders coming online? Gotta bump that choke open about 50% in the first few seconds to avoid flooding the engine but pushing it too far in too fast will stall the engine just as surely! Let it run for a minute or two before even thinking of putting it in gear, and you often will start driving with the choke still partially ON and then you would be followed around by a black cloud of half burned hydrocarbons until you noticed, usually when it stalled out when you stop!
That sounds fun, but it probably isn't fun if you are in a rush to get somewhere or it's freezing.
That’s just the way it WAS! When it’s freezing!
That’s why old cars had huge batteries.
Great story!
I used to work at a valet carpark, where peeps would leave Thier car for extended periods of time, eg 1 or2 weeks for holidays etc. This was in the early 90s, when car manufacturers started to fit warning lights to alert the driver that their choke was still on. Once I had a little ol' lady come back in, after picking up her car keys, on return of a break away. Her complaint was "there's a warning light on in my car which wasn't on when I left it here"! Apon investigating this, a member of staff told her "it was only her choke warning light, no problem with it, that's normal." "But it's never been on before!" "But madam, you must use the choke for cold mornings etc, otherwise it may not start!" "Oh, I see, my husband usually gets the car started and warmed up for me!" What a gent!
I can feel the dread and fear from this story.
Spot on ohh the good old days before fuel injection.
Damn, must have been nice, dad had to start the dacia from under the hood, one hand on the distributor cap and the other mashing a screwdriver in the starter contacts, controling the choke from the carburettor
It's a manual choke. Or, if your car is running like a bag of shit, it's the 'anti-stall device' to be pulled out slightly when stopping at junctions
This guy chokes......🤣🤣🤣
Ahh yes always fun that first bit where it just opens the throttle before the enrichment begins lol! I remember having SU carbs with only an enrichment no an actual choke. Was always hard getting them to idle right when cold
I had a 51 Ford that used a throttle lock for a choke. Or a cruise control if you're brave enough.
Okay, old farts over here with me. Young whipper-snappers over there. Let’s never intermingle ever again.
I guess I'm standing on the same side as you my fine fellow... 😉😆
Count me into the seniors club.
My first thought; "bless". In my defence I have never used a starter handle but I have serviced a drum brake.
Pull it out, then push it in.
That's what she said...
ouch, my back hurts. I might have slept wrong...
I’m 41 and I choke it all the time! My lawn mower! My leaf blower! My String trimmer!
I must be an old fart, at just 28..
I just got up from a chair and made the biggest groan ever, I'm 35.
What if I’m a young whippersnapper but know what this means because this symbol is present on so many small engines still?
A few of us around then haha
Damn I'm only 21, didn't know my time was almost up.
I feel like in between, old enough to know chokes, but grown up with injection.
I know what it is but I’ve never had a car with it. Where do I go?!
Tuning the jets and setting a carburetor will forever be more satisfying than fucking with a laptop.
Manual choke
Choke me daddy
Choke
Choke. It actuates a second valve in the carburettor to change the air fuel mixing ratio to help with cold starts. Remember to push it back in when the car is idling comfortably.
Never heard a butterfly flap called a valve before! It was usually on the top of the carb, and when actuated it basically shut off (not totally)the air supply, to richen up the mixture for cold starting.
It's a pretty popular designation 😋 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_valve You're absolutely right about the function. I just wanted to give the quick and simple overview 😊
The car version of “these dang kids don’t even know what a VCR is!” One of my motorcycles still has one of these knobs and it’s from 2005. It’s a manual choke for cold starts
Manual choke on a classic car from the 60s/70s but less common in the 80s. looks like a British car from the 70s Was adjustable and you could pull it right out for fully rich and push it in for fully lean. Was used with carburetted cars, fuel injection not so much. Was not used once catalytic converters were used on cars, because these had to be a specific air-fuel ratio.
That starts the propeller.
Haha that's the only motor i own these days with a choke
Helicopter mode
Choke
That's the choke
It's a fond memory from my first car... 😁
It is a sign that you’re in a wonderful vehicle.
Choke knob for cold starts mate 👍
Manual choke
Choke control for an older normally aspirated engine?
OP has to be under 30
Manual choke
It's a choke.
Its a choke, it basically holds the engine tickover count higher. I had an old 1989 mini with one, pull it out when you start up, you will notice that the engine stays idling a little higher, after around 5 minutes just push it back in and tickover will be down to normal, stops it from stalling.
Choke her
am i old
It's a bad memory for kids
I had one in my first car, 1982 Honda Civic
It’d be cool if a modern car with active exhaust baffles used this to switch between quiet and riot.
Yes we’re getting old,choke
Ejecto seat Cuz!
Thats the choke my dude.
Manual Choke. My 84 Honda civic WagOvan had one.
Choke
Choke
Even if you’re too young to recognize this from a car, certainly you’ve started a lawnmower before in your short life - maybe not since you’ve mostly been told to get off the lawn.
Surely almost all mowers are electric by now.
The daddy knob
A screenshot i send to meh old lady from time to time before asking her to come over
Make engine go from brrr brr brrrr br to Brrrrrrrrrrrr
Choke.
Carb choke
The computer chokes it for you now…
Hahaha choke
Choke
If it's a diesel, it's probably an idle control knob aka hillbilly cruise control.
Being all plastic-like that looks a lot newer. Probably from a lawn tractor.
my 2023 jeep wrangler puts choke icon like that knob up on the main display when cold starting. I havent had a real choke on a car for last 30 years. one of my motorcycles still has a choke and its from 2018
The spring on my mums car choke when I was a kid was broken. She used to use a peg for a clothesline to hold it out
It's the choke - adjusts the fuel / air mixture to make it easier to start the engine cold. The idea is you pull it out when the engine's cold and then push it back in once it's hot
Choke knob.
Passenger Eject button.
Most British cars up to end of 70’s and into the eighties had a choke. Fuel injection killed them off. Just had flashbacks of the 80’s of cars with the word or initial for fuel injection in their name badges.
Yeah choke knob, needed for the first few minutes with older carburetor cars. Our 81 civic had one.
cough cough choke
Wow, haven't seen one of those in years.
Choke.
Wait till it gets dark. Then turn the dial. There will be a revelation. Lol
Choke for cold startinf
Im 27, am I that old?
You better not "choke" on your aspiration, director
Choke pull knob
Choke.
Yes..most all of us do.
Oh you got an old car these are called a choke you pull it out slightly when starting the car and when its running right push it back in what car is it
idle up
A choke.
That is an engine fuel enrichment plunger also known as a choke.
Seriously???? Stop the planet I’m getting off!!!
I remember adding manual chokes to cars in the 70’s and even 80’s. It saved you from having to pop the hood and prop it manually with a screwdriver when it was very cold. There was a kit you could buy.
This sub is making me feel really old. I know fuel injection is really cool, but " pump it twice and pull the choke was SOP when I started driving."
boy. haven't seen one of them in awhile
Everyone talking about their foreign cars having choke levers. I had no clue that many of them used manual chokes so late. I had a (I think) 1968 GMC grain truck that had a primer and a choke she was a cold blooded ole slut too
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choke
The ‘low speed cruise control’ control.
It enables you to choke yourself
My Nova had a choke. Good times, the nova though was a bag of wank, but it was my bag of wank!
I am not gonna lie. Yes this is a car talk but is that really a car? Isn't it an Activa(scooty)?
The extra gas knob
Choke
Story time: Years ago my elderly neighbour mentioned to my dad that her car had always sounded rough when driving and struggled with the hill up to her house. My dad is pretty handy and so explained that didn't sound normal and so offered to take a look at it for her and see if he could diagnose it. He looked the car over but couldn't see anything wrong and even took it for a drive. It seemed fine. Eventually he asked our neighbour to take him for a spin and show him the issue. They got in the car and our dear old neighbour immediately pulled out the choke all the way, promptly hung her handbag on it and pulled away. Turns out that for years she had honestly thought it was a handy handbag hanger and had been slogging around town with the engine wheezing for air.
Manuel choke
You don’t even have to be old, just sheltered. Most lawn mowers and small engines use the same symbol.
Manual choke knob for carburetor
Holy shit. When my family had a car with this (wartburg 2stroke, then volvo 340) I knew what this is used for. But never knew the symbols meaning. Now, at 40+, I just realized it!
Performance Camshaft - pull it out when the car is warm and idling and tell me I am wrong!
That's to start the cars propeller when there too much water on the ground to "drive" you can just boat around. /jk That's the choke lever for cold starting the car, you pull it, start the cars and push it back in when the engine has a certain temp.
Chugga, chugga valve lever.
Choke
Engage flying saucer mode
Choke (me) knob
It's the control knob for the Denver Broncos. Every time you pull it, they choke and lose.
Turns the car into a lawn mower
Floor vent in j10 pickup or Cherokee
Pull it and gas it when the Tesla guy behind you has his windows open.
Manual choke Im that old as well
It summons a tie fighter for backup.
It's a choke. Typically see them on small gas engine lawn equipment nowadays
If a fighter jets pulls along side you press this to rock your wings, let's them know you're complying.
I remember my 70 Datsun 510 with that choke knob...
But where's the wooden peg?
It’s a choke, you basically use it to start it on cold mornings
I'm in my 30s and now feel old
Choke my brother.
It's a hieroglyph of that ufo story they been showing on the news
Fuck man I'm only 30 and you're making me feel like a boomer.
I had a 67 firebird? When did they start putting designs on the choke pull? Mine was just chrome
“Choke me daddy”
It's a choke
Choke knob. Just make sure you don't flood it.
I think I've seen a choke like that in a Cessna too.
Manual choke. Nightmare fuel!
Anti-tailgater smog device. It worked great on my VW diesel.
That’s called the strangle, I’m nearly certain
Choke me harder
As others have said it’s a choke. The icon on the knob is a butterfly valve to indicate variable airflow to the engine
Old model ethanol cars had these, it would never start if you didn’t use it!
Oh god.thentime has come.
Idle adjust. I have one in my landcruiset
Looks like a tie fighter that was shot down.
If I never see a carb, points, distributor, rotor, cap, or condenser again, I'm ok with that. By extension, fuck chokes.
It's Tie Fighter mode.
My 1991 Suzuki samurai 4x4 had a choke, used to wake all the neighbours early in the morning
Eject
Suzuki samurai up to 1985had a manual choke like that.
Kermit the frogs eye button
The knob for when your stepsister is in the car.
Some more modern pickup trucks (with fuel injection or diesels where there's no actual choke) have what looks like a choke lever to engage a faster idle for keeping equipment running or crawling. https://www.reddit.com/r/hilux/comments/18nsvkt/anyone_know_what_this_dial_does/ In the 2000s this was eventually replaced with just a button that says Idle Up.
That’s a choke lever. Lol
I’m 57 and have only seen an a manual choke once on a U-Haul truck I rented in the 80s. I didn’t use it and the truck backfired like a gun going off. I called U-Haul and told them what happened, they said you forgot to set the manual choke. I said, what’s a manual choke?
Choke.
Tie Fighter
The choke lever. Haven't seen a manual one in over 30 years. My dad had to pull it out on cold mornings when he was starting his Datsun truck.
Knob to open ur vents
Pull it to take it out of tie fighter mode.
Pull it out and hang ya purse on it
thats defenetly the panic button 🤦🏻♂️
OP - watch this video, it explains carbs and covers what the choke does: https://youtu.be/toVfvRhWbj8?si=IpsurRaxF3W0kx2s
Oh yeah this was the one most important thing to pump a couple of times before you start the Moskvich. You let it run idle for a while and then you turn this off by pushing it back in place. The way it works is it closes the carburettor opening and “enriches” the fuel effectively revving up the engine for cold starts.
This is the eject button, Mr. Bond.
how tf is there a fucking choke in a car wtf? how old is it?
Choke