I believe my 1964 \6 choke bimetallic spring is broken – Can anyone confirm?

Sure, any linkage rod can be bent to adjust, but I try to save that as the last resort, as it's usually not fixing the cause, and once you start bending rods, you can spend a lot of time bending other rods to finally get everything the way it should be.

Adding the thicker gasket, which I should really have anyway, was the easiest solution, and lets me move on to other things, many of which don't even involve this car! ;-)

– Eric