Auto choke gets stuck on

[Lozza94]

I have a 93 WA Festiva

I let it warm up for a while (5mins +) but sometimes as im driving the auto choke comes back on and gets stuck

its really annoying, and my friend seems to think we can convert it to a manual choke, but before i do that is there anything else i can do to stop it from getting stuck ????



thanks

[WmWatt]

spray the linkages with WD-40. also if you give the car a spurt of gas (tap on the pedal) that could release the choke. when my car is first started I wait 10 sec and give it a burst of gas to release the choke. works on my carburetted '89. don't know if it's good for fuel injected models.

[kellen302]

^FI cars don't have a choke,

[Zanzer]

^^ He's in Australia, they were still getting carbies in 93.

[kellen302]

don't know if it's good for fuel injected models.

He said FI models
I think there have been a couple of misreads, lol, I think bravekozak said something about a manual choke option one time

[Zanzer]

^^ Gotcha, my bad....been a long day

Anyway...for the Record, WA's down under still used a carb LOL

[Lozza94]

It has a carby

i just let my car warm up while i lock up the house etc, it doesnt have problems after ive started it but as im driving along it will come on..

[devon527]

My buddy has the same problem with his, we found the problem. His butterfly valve on the carb for the air intake kept sticking, had to lightly tap it with a screw driver to make it stop idling really high. Hope that helps...

[Brayy]

Another australian >
3 or 5 door ? My auto choke seems to switch off when i put it into second on the roll.. but it idles at 2.5-3k thats not bad for it yeah ?

[Lozza94]

Another australian >
3 or 5 door ?

Mines a 5 door lol and thanks mate for the butterfly valve tip i will have to have a look on the weekend.