"I have been doing that "dance" & working chokes for 65 years. I don't think I am "dumb" about it."
Good morning Wrenchbender.
I also do that "dance" because I've found that a squirt of raw gas into a cold engine helps it to fire up immediately.
You are definitely not "dumb" for doing that. In fact, it is essential to depress the accelerator at least once to start a cold engine with an automatic choke on the carburetor. Unless you do, the choke can't close and the idle speed screw can't position itself properly on the fast idle cam.
I've been called way worse than "dumb" by the same person on this forum. It was so outrageous that one of the moderators sanitized that thread by totally deleting that particular post.
