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I dug thru a bunch of lawnmower, etc., carbs, and found no float needles big
enough in diameter, therefore I tweaked on the carb, adjusting both float
tabs so the needle valve barely opens. I appear to have been successful,
but that’s after I broke the old starter rope, and spent another 1/2 hour
fixing that.
I played with that little spring that goes over the float pin, every which way,
and could see no benefit, and only potential problems, so I left it out.
I ran the motor for a half hour, starting and stopping it a few times, and it
seems like a winner. May even run better with a new spark plug and
fresh gas with a leaner mixture. It calls for a 40:1 mixture, but seemed
to run fair on the two year old 16:1 gas I siphoned out of my boat’s tank.
Don’t think I’ll go as lean as 40:1 though.
The spark plug in it was a AC M47, a shorter plug. Of course I don’t
have anything newer around that’s also short. Such is life.
Prepare to be boarded!