On 17 Oct 2017 19:51:12 -0400, (Scott Dorsey) wrote:

>dsi1 > wrote:
>>On Tuesday, October 17, 2017 at 3:34:18 AM UTC-10, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>>>
>>> I was leaning very strongly toward this being the case, that the choke is not
>>> leaning down enough. But I suggested earlier than he try manually blocking
>>> the intake to simulate aggressive choking and he said that didn't help.
>>
>>It's a cold start problem with a carburetor. This should be dead simple to fix. He needs have an old fart mechanic look at his carb.
>
>You'd think so. But back in the seventies _everybody_ had a carb and
>_everybody_ had cold start problems. It was just considered normal.
>Hmm, maybe there is a correlation here.
>--scott

Not everybody. I had no problems starting - winter or summer.