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Old 06-09-2018, 10:09 AM   #20
Purdy Swoft
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Default Re: Crank start

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Originally Posted by Lona View Post
Purdy has a good point about choking. I turn my gas off while pulling in the garage and run the carb dry so it doesn't want to start without choking next time. Anybody else have tricks like Purdy to choke the engine before trying to hand crank it? How do you do it?

Glen
If my wife Deb is with me, I let her handle the choke and ignition . Deb doesn't like to do the hand crank. She says that it wouldn't look good and wouldn't be lady like . I'm pretty sure that back in the day that women would hand crank the model A in an emergency . Its really not a feat of strength . If the timing is correctly set and a person knows what they are doing it only takes a slight up lift of the hand crank .
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