Ummm, this continues to make no sense to me whatsoever

[blueroo]

Ok, I'll be driving and I'll go to put my foot into it and when I hit around 3800-4K RPM, the car will start to sputter. I look down at my dash and my choke is sticking halfway out. Oddly enough, it's warm weather so I never pulled the choke out in the first place. Roughly every 10-15 minutes of driving, I have to push the choke back in. For the life of me, I can't figure out why. Nothing seems to be catching it under the hood and the cable on the interior side is in really good shape so I don't think it can be that. Can anyone give me some insight?

 

[addo]

The cable's probably incorrectly adjusted, or damaged. Could be the inner or the sheath. Disconnect it at the carb, and wire the cable itself out the way. Leave the choke mechanism on the carby alone, incase it's misbehaving. Drive and see what happens.

Report back with your findings, and all sources referenced in an acceptable format.

 

[66 Fastback]

I had a temp control cable on a heater do the same thing. I would put it to cool and after a while it worked its way back to hot. I replaced the cable and have not had a problem since. Your cable could be rusty or dry inside the sheath and not all of the wire's movement is making it down to the choke.
Doug

 

[Funky Cricket]

if I had to guess I would say the cable is bound up in the sheath and is just looking like you pushed it in, but it slowly decompresses and pushes itself back out.

 

[blueroo]

Well, I went to disconnect it, but before I did I wanted to check and make sure that when I disconnect it, it (the choke on the carb) goes to rest. When I went to do so, the choke cable is actually moving in the second mount (the one with the square nut, not the screw at the very end. Just thought that was odd.

 

[blueroo]

Ok, I noticed 3 things during driving with the cable disconnected:

1) The choke knob stayed in completely
2) I had a very nasty backfire that would occur almost instantly when I let off the gas (I had some backfire before, just not this bad)
3) I don't know if this would or could tie in, but just as I was coming home, my fuel gauge shot up above full having just read above empty