A fuzzy pipe- smoking pipe- cleaner is a better object to stick down the passages than a drill. If there is an auto zone or something near you, get the gallon can of carb cleaner, take it appart and soak the whole thing in the can for a couple weeks, change the gaskets and screws, not necessarily the brass seats, if you strip one of them you are in bad shape, back the adjusting screws one and a half turns, and see if it fires. All updrafts might need choking, some even in the middle of summer, like my fergies and AC CA. An often overlooked thing with this model is the coil, once very expensive, cheap at tractor supply or on here since I had mine. A real pain to clean this and the points, but, it is a glorified model T, so that's where it is. I like to wire brush the spark plugs on things that have been setting all year. If these things don't help... I'm out of ideas. good luck!
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Today's Featured Article - Earthmaster Project Progress Just a little update on my Earthmaster......it's back from the dead! I pulled the head, and soaked the stuck valves with mystery oil overnight, re-installed the head, and bingo, the compression returned. But alas, my carb foiled me again, it would fire a second then flood out. After numerous dead ends for a replacement carb, I went to work fixing mine.I soldered new floats on the float arm, they came from an old motorcycle carb, replaced the packing on the throttle shaft with o-rings, cut new ga
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