Hi there, I just bought my suzuki a few months back, and as winter time approaches, I am finding myself having to sit in our driveway for a long while, pushing the gas pedal in and getting the electric choke warmed up enough to actually drive.  If I take her out too soon, she cuts and dies.  I am looking for reccomendations on whether I should keep the electric choke, which I am beginning to dislike, or look for a manual pull-type choke, and what my options for those are.  I know there is a time there when she will cut out, but it has gotten to the point where I let off the clutch and hit the gas, and she revs up and stops and dies.  I would love to get a manual choke for my 1987 sammi, but I am not sure of my options, and I do not even know if a choke like this would go into my year of samurai, or my current carberautor.  Any reccomedations?

Move....south!!! LOL

I would replace all of your vacuum lines first, that is responsible for probably 75%* of the old Hitachi carb issues.





* 75% number taken from the IOSRS**
** Institute for Official Sounding Random Statistics

If your stock carb came with a electric choke not sure if a manuel "kit" would work.

Hi, I am experiencing similar problems... I have a 92 tracker automatic 4wd, it has electric fuel injection. When I first bought it the old owner said it drags when it starts but if you push the gas pedal all the way in once it will start right up. That is mostly the truth, 90 percent of the time you could pump the gas and it would take off. About two weeks after i had it it wouldnt even turn over so I tapped on the starter and it came alive..... I replaced the starter and that has given it much more starting power but still about 60 percent of the time the start cranks a bit before it fires up, the other 40 it takes right off.  Just curious if this is loss of pressure or if there might be an issue with the fuel system?

Thoughts?

The stock samurai choke isn't electric it's opened by a thermowax element (coolant temp), and also has a vacuum choke pull off.  The problem your describing can be caused from the choke unloader not functioning right from what I've read.