Jaguar E-Type with cold start issues

This E-Type was having cold start issues. 

I quickly noticed that the choke tubes that go through the carburettor bodies (connecting to a small cam that lowers the jets when the choke is engaged) seized – all three of them.

When unseized, the diaphragms inside the carburettors then split!

All three carburettors were stripped down, cleaned, rebuilt with new parts from Burlens, reassembled to factory settings and put back on the car.

Needless to say, normal service has returned!