Posted by PopinJohn on October 30, 2010 at 17:11:12 from (24.168.46.210):
A guy stopped by the other morning to look at a Ford 850 I have for sale. It had been chilly during the night, 40 I think, so I pulled the choke, started the tractor, and left the choke partially on for the first minute or so. His teen son asked "What"s a choke?" And the guy was around back holding his hand over the tailpipe exclaiming "This tractor"s running rich". Duh! It got me to thinking that in this age of fuel injected cars and such for what? the past 25 years, that only us old timers know about pumping the footfeed, pulling the choke out and getting the car started. The last car I had with a choke knob on the dash was my first car, a "54 Ford. So here we are, friends, 2010.
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