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Thank you all for your responses. First let me answer your questions.
1) I have lapped the needle seat with some valve grinding compound. Seemed to have no effect. Maybe I didn’t do it enough.
2) I have tried adjusting the needle valve from fully closed to 1 turn open in increments and it also did not seem to change anything.
3) Compression is at 65PSI
4) there is cork at the top of the poppet valve that does restrict the amount that the valve opens but as you mentioned, we don’t know what the spec is for that. The cork top does NOT appear to be in bad shape and does not look dried out.
5) the passage from the float bowl to the poppet is clean. I will look for a small hole on the poppet as you mentioned to make sure that is clear.
I also noticed there does NOT seem to be a fiber washer in the needle adjustment. Should there be? Should there be 2 or one?