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I’ts been a couple years since I was in to one of those carbs. I suppose that if the gasket was leaking, it could mess up the air adjustment on the low speed circuit. Most carbs that I’ve worked with that are air metering on the low speed side, can be a little touchy. I’ll have to take a look at one of those to see. I remember the first time I tried to start my CC Commander after going through it. I thought I had the carb clean, but it would only run with the choke partially on. I had to blow it out once again with compressed air, then it ran fine.Were you able to unscrew the float needle seat out of the carb body? Usually those are corroded in and hard to remove. I know both my Commander carbs had a lot of crud in there, once I got it out. Sometimes just a spec of trash can cause lots of problems. But, at least you know what the trouble is. Keep us posted!