1969 F250 with a 360 2 barrel carb, can I convert it to automatic choke?

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1969 F250 with a 360 2 barrel carb, can I convert it to automatic choke?

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Hello all and Happy New year to our trucks! ....and to the fellas who keep em on the road 8)

I have a question about the little 2 barrel carb that comes on our trucks. Mine is missing all the manual choke stuff and it just won’t run right. Can I convert it to heat sourced automatic choke ? I hate to buy another carb as this one is fairly new, just missing the right stuff plus I’d prefer to have a auto choke setup. Thanks for any help!
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I don't think any pickups past '68 came with a manual choke. Easiest fix would be to find or buy a replacement carb that has everything. Then you need the exhaust manifold with working ports and hard lines for the heat stove. Without that you're pissing in the wind. I used 1/4" copper tubing around headers many moons ago and it worked as well.
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Re: 1969 F250 with a 360 2 barrel carb, can I convert it to automatic choke?

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Ranchero50 wrote:I don't think any pickups past '68 came with a manual choke. Easiest fix would be to find or buy a replacement carb that has everything. Then you need the exhaust manifold with working ports and hard lines for the heat stove. Without that you're pissing in the wind. I used 1/4" copper tubing around headers many moons ago and it worked as well.

yep 67' was last year on the manual choke. Sounds like some stuff has been messed with in the past.
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Re: 1969 F250 with a 360 2 barrel carb, can I convert it to automatic choke?

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Not sure if the Mercury is different but my 68 truck had a manual choke before the change to the auto. Choke knob and cable all looked to be original.
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'67 used the same bezels as do the big girls. If I had room and were running a PTO I think 'Throttle' would be a cool addition.
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Re: 1969 F250 with a 360 2 barrel carb, can I convert it to automatic choke?

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Both of my '69 F-250s have the factory manual choke and one of them also has the factory Ford hand throttle. Love them. A manual choke is super easy to start and keep running smoothly when the engine is in good tune and you have the right technique. If you can keep it, perhaps we can give you some guidance on it. However, if you want to switch to an automatic choke, you can get an electric choke kit. You'll only need to supply a 12V power supply to the electric choke that is switched on with the ignition switch. All very easy to do.

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Pictures of what you have now would be helpful.

Depending on what you carb and engine you have you may be able to get parts, including the choke stove tubing from a Mustang vendor.

Most carbs with automatic choke have a vacuum pulloff as well, so if that wasn’t dealt with during the conversion it could be a source of the problem, if it was dealt with during the conversion, you will have to undeal with it...
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Not sure how I ended up on drive train, my mistake.

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That looks factory.

The last picture you posted, where the cable clamp bolts to the carb body, at the lower screw where it looks like there is a double screw boss. Can you tell if that is drilled and plugged or was never drilled?
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Re: 1969 F250 with a 360 2 barrel carb, can I convert it to automatic choke?

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That is all factory - all identical to what I have on my 68.......I will go look at mine in the am and see if anything looks out of place compared to mine.....
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What you show is what I have... not seeing the missing parts

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You said your manual choke "stuff" is missing? What "stuff" are you thinking is missing? What I'm seeing is what my factory manual chokes have. :?
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Re: 1969 F250 with a 360 2 barrel carb, can I convert it to automatic choke?

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I think the problem is the choke butterfly, on the top of the carb the little spring and nut were missing so I put a ink pen spring :oops: and found a nut to keep it on. I’m guessing :? the butterfly is closing a bit on acceleration after I'm warmed up and driving, the spring is the wrong strength maybe. Never worked on a ford carb before.
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Re: 1969 F250 with a 360 2 barrel carb, can I convert it to automatic choke?

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I do know a little bit about squarebody chevys 8)

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