Had an issue today after short drive locally, tried to start after car had been sitting for 20 min & had to crank awhile before she roared to life, didn't think much of it at the time. About another half hour later I went for another short drive, car started OK at first but then kept stalling . Only way to restart was crank with foot to the floor & blow out the huge cloud of smoke before continuing & then stalled in driveway again at home. When it's cold it starts really easy (auto choke), but seems after running at full temp for a while to flood up.
I popped the air cleaner while it was running to see if choke butterfly was open & appeared ok, butterfly is vertical even though it seems very sloppy & could move quite easily.
So should the autochoke (it's an Edelbrock 600) keep the butterfly firmly in place when fully open or should it be a little sloppy ? Just wondering if autochoke is misadjusted perhaps. One other thing I noticed recently when fine tuning the timing & idle mixtures was that the secondary butterfly shaft has some lateral slop & alters the idle if you wiggle it.
Appreciate any input you gasmonkeys can help with.
