Re: starting my 1969 115 jonny
Spike<br />Your description sounds perfectly normal to me. And it sounds like you are using the manual choke properly. A fully closed choke is the prime or priming position. This allows the cyl's to draw in an over rich air/fuel mix needed for starting. Because the crank case and cyl's are full of air already more fuel is needed. When in manual choke/prime mode, turning the engine over and you get that hit or pop. This is the Iam ready, stop priming, give me a little air sign. Open the choke to either half or full open depending on what your motor likes and start it. Some model use a manual choke setting and an automatic. The automatic setting will allow the choke to open on its own when the motor starts. The electric choke opens when you let off the switch. It is not unusual to have to give a cold engine a little choke here and there or to have to reprime and restart (to a point) once, maybe twice,three times, if you screw up(we all do). It is best to use as little choke as you can after your engine starts. I think the invention of the computer chip has made starting gas (if not all) engines a lost art. When we start todays cars, we put the key in the slot and wake up the computer, then it starts the engine, usually right now. Things were not always this way.
