have any of you remove the auto-return choke and replaced it with a manual one? mine dosent work anymore and i want to remove all the crap that goes with it if i can. this is on my 79' if that makes a difference.

Mine hasn't worked for a while but thats on the carb side not the auto return part. All is an electromagnet that holds i believe shouldn't be too hard to fix, but auto zone sells a manual choke replacement kit i looked into it awhile back but never did it, its like 20 or 30 bucks it replaces everything so you might need to make your own mount for it.

i like to set it up so i dont need the choke at all....



but



the choke IS manual, except that they hold the choke out with a magnet hooked to a temp sensor on the back of the water pump, so you dont leave it on all the time.



only failure ive ever had was the wires fall off that sensor

maybe i'll just try to hook the wires up.

well I have a working choke and i don't know if it will work on a 79. Its off an 83. if you want it just make me an offer.

well I have a working choke and i don't know if it will work on a 79. Its off an 83. if you want it just make me an offer.