Reply To: Cold starting a Merak – advice please!

[joe-robson]

Hi,

I can’t recall what carbs are on the Merek, but the Webers on my Indy like a bit of pumping to prime them before she’ll jump to life when cold. The choke cable doesn’t seem to make much difference, but a good couple of pumps will usually result in a successful cough and start. Every ‘old’ car I own and have owned has taken a while to learn the knack, often it’s not what the book says. One quick way to test that all other circuits are ok is to give it a quick blast of easy start down the air intake – it should fire off that quickly if it’s going to, once you know that ignition circuits are happy then it’s just trial and error learning how much and when it likes fuel when cold.

Cheers

Joe