The choke ideas are interesting -- I'll dig in there a bit... I've operated motors with manual chokes plenty of times, I'd have presumed they would be hard to START -- or is it stuck OPEN? (and hence flooding when I throttle up?)

Is the idea that the automated choke goes open/rich, then when you throttle up it closes up for a leaner mixture? In other words it only is running rich when you idle/cold?
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