Is it a hassle to convert over to an electric choke, I'm having trouble getting my cable exact tension and  getting it to idle when it starts and it dies if you don't keep your foot on the gas. I've had trouble with this ever since I bought the car and need to fix it. The previous owner had a concoction on the cable coming through the dash to tighten the unit down on the back side of the dash but that's no longer an option so I figured I'd go with electriv if feasible.

I put a Holley 600 cfm electric choke carb on my 62 ford and ditched the autolite 4100 manual choke one.It starts and idles fine .This was 7  years ago.

What carb - 4000, 4100, 4150?  2 or 4bbl?

If it's a 57 and later Holley, then Holley should be able to supply the parts.  As far as a 4100, I don't where you can get parts for an electric choke.

If a 4000, there is a company that has a conversion kit    https://www.carburetor-parts.com




54 Victoria 312;  48 Ford Conv 302, 56 Bird 312
Forever Ford
Midland Park, NJ

I'm having hella a lot of trouble with my automatic spring choke on my 4000. I dunno if changing the spring would be enough to fix it.

It's a 55 Fairlane 272 4000 tpot carb!!

my 1957rnchero with holley 4v ,electric choke works great

Since you really didn't get an answer.

I've never had to use a locking choke cable on any kind of carb. There's always been enough friction to hold the choke closed. That said, you still have to adjust the fast idle steps separate (or coordinated with) the choke itself. That won't change with an electric unit. On some carbs, this requires bending the linkage from the choke to the choke betterfly to get it in sync with the fast idle adjustments. On a 60 year old carb, who knows what's been done.

You might go over to the Ford Barn and look up scicala. He's a well regarded carb guy, but is rarely on here.

miker
55 bird, 32 cabrio F code
Kent, WA
Tucson, AZ

I converted one of my Holley 4000's to electric. It works great
Here you go:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkJkCWhip4c