Yeah, this is all temporary and aside from the air cleaner is all stuff I had lying around. I'm yanking this oil-puking thing as soon as I can find a suitable replacement. Something diesel, or v8 most likely. Now back to the reality of me being broke-

I just couldn't bring myself to spend $35 and a few hours "fixing" the Craptachi pile they called a carburetor on these things. Never met a Hitachi anything that worked right, especially after 30years.
I did have to rework the throttle linkage and it's very obvious driving it that it's a direct rod linkage, but it's a huge improvement over the original.