Cold start carb problem

[andyneedham2]

Yes, its that time again. Someone else asking for poo-berg advice!!

The car has been running fine recently even with the chilly weather, but today when I started from cold it really struggled. Cut out straight away 3 times meaning I had to hold the revs with my foot for 5 mins (revs all over the place). After I got the car rolling and warmed up the revs sat nicely at 750rpm...

Wax stat problem? I'm new to carbs and I can't really afford a weber (twin 40s in years to come!!) I'm a very poor student in the red!!

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance. Andy

[Nate]

go to a scrapyard, find a mk2 or early mk3 astra 1.4 or smaller. these are fited with a either a 2E2 or 2E3 carb. many have had manual choke conversions fitted. unbolt, refit to yours

[andyneedham2]

Sounds promising. Would I have to change jets or chokes on it?

Id love to give it a good service really but ideally I'd want the car to be running after I'd had a tinker!!

Cheers

Andy

[Nate]

you don't need the whole carb, just the manual choke conversion. they seem to have been more widely fitted to vaux than to dubs for some reason

[andyneedham2]

great. I'll have a look around then. Cheers

[Nate]

might be worth ringing some of the specialist vaux breakers (people like griffin salvage or dixons vaux, both in leeds) as the mk2's are getting a bit thin on the ground in scrappys

[andyneedham2]

yeh, I found that out. Rang round a few and theres not much knocking about. Are there any service manuals for the pooberg do you know, maybe I could clean it up while I'm looking?