How to start a classic muscle car without flooding EVERY SINGLE TIME 🤯

[davidfurst]

I've never done that to my '69. Which I've had since I was 16. Here's the trick. Keep the carb properly maintained!🤨

[ckelley]

Starting a carbureted vehicle is becoming a lost art.

[derekwhite]

A finely tuned carb will make a big difference

[chuckcts-v]

Correct way to start a car with a quadrajet carburetor: First, push the pedal all the way to the floor/wot=wide open throttle slowly one time. This will set the automatic choke. Second, turn the key on, start the car. Do NOT touch the gas pedal. Car will start and come to a fast idle, if the carburetor is set correctly. As the motor warms up it should come down from fast idle, if it doesn't tap the gas pedal and it will come down to normal idle. Every time you push the gas pedal you are making the accelerator pump squirt gas in to the intake. If the car gets flooded, it needs more air. Push the gas pedal all the way to the floor and hold it there, this will open the butterfly's and let air into the intake. Turn the key to start the car, as it starts gently let up on the gas pedal and let the car warm up. If you have a owner's manual read how to start your car. Alot of info in a owner's manual, read it, most people do not. Especially with newer cars, they have a lot of features that you will not discover with out reading the manual.

[peterrichard]

If it's got a auto choke, and it set correctly, one pump to the floor, then hold it half way. No turn the key. Should fire and run on fast idle. Wait two mins. Kick it and it'll settle on idle
Three pumps an you'll flood it.

[larrysutton]

I'm a diehard Chevy guy but man that is a beautiful Mustang...the '69 fastback was always my favorite year model.

[grabasandwich]

I'd love to the see a cold start with the same car, but only touch the gas just enough to close the choke, and see if it does the same.

[jeffbridgman]

U shouldn't have to pump it 3 times. The automatic choke should set on the 1st pump on a cold start when it's ❄️ outside. Especially if the choke is set correctly!!

[beetee]

Most carbs have fast idle cams so you don't have to hold the gas pedal.

[kelsycunningham]

A carb that's set up properly (automatic choke tension, accelerator pump, vacuum choke pull off, etc) should take 1 pedal to the floor and up, remove your foot from the pedal. It should start immediately, as in quicker than any fuel injection system on a cold start. If the weather is freezing then 2 pumps will suffice. 3 or 4 pumps at -30 or -40. If the engine has been running previously in the day, say 3 or 4 hours earlier it should start just by turning the key.
But then again I could be wrong.
If you have to pump that much fuel into the intake something isn't right as in lack of choke action or possibly weak ignition.

[Cam_Mac]

I miss these lads so much. Used to air their show early on Sunday mornings in Australia but no more.

[michaelraddish]

Like how he made sure in neutral, foot off clutch to save throw out bearing.thats an old school trick I was taught 60 yrs ago

[jayeean]

Hell, that's how I started my parents 72 Chevy Impala 9 passenger station wagon which was always parked outside in the cold up in the northeast!!

[patsfan]

Well done, Peter. Amazing I remember how this used to be common knowledge for anyone that drove a car, up until around the late 80s. I'm not getting old, am I? 🤣

[diychad]

So I feel like I'm pulling out the only person that's going to say this but that fuel is not atomizing in the intake just sitting there, there may be some vapors forming but no atomization going on there once the fuel comes out of the injectors / throttle body / Jets/whatever you want to call the delivery system in a carburetor when there is not a vacuum being pulled as a result of a running engine

[powwowtrip]

👍. I was only pumping 2 1/2 times. No wonder it wasn’t working. Thanks.

[johnrosier]

I still do this with my ‘68. It’s just instinct after 30 years.

[redsealjourneymanreviews]

Dad said pump
Once if
Flooded foot to floor

[babyapes]

His dad made a film about using a hand crank start engine.

[Brian-fpmh]

I remember going out in the middle of winter starting my moms 73 Cutlas for her to get it warmed up. I was 7 m, never flooded it! Lol