Originally Posted by
Talltruck
You really have to make sure all the passages in the carb are clean. Today's gas is really bad about gelling if it sits for very long, so when the carb is apart you have to make sure you clean everything using compressed air to blow out all the little ports to make sure it's absolutely clean inside.
Great advice. When you rebuilt the carburetor, did you do the full job (completely disassembling the carburetor, soaking metal parts in Chem Dip, spraying them clean, and blowing out the internal passageways with compressed air once dry)?
Anything short of that will often cause more issues than there were to begin with. The reason I ask is because when I hear the term "throw a kit in it," I think of the carb simply being sprayed down with a can of spray cleaner and closed back up with new seals. That won't work.