Well, now im back to thinking "maybe i need to clean the carb a little better" I now have the original rebuilt carb on it, since i determined the one i had on the shelf didn't change anything, or was bad, even though i;ve used it before and did fine...... fired it up, it's doing the usual miss....
the choke on this carb has the spring on the back side of the lever that catches the notches on top of the shaft, so I SLOWLY started to close the choke, pulling it where it couldn't catch a notch, and i found a sweet spot almost to half choke, where it smoothed out, i held it there by hand for 5 minutes, never a miss or deviation in RPMs. which is weird because the plug shows a good burn (Not any white to it). If i close the choke much past this point, it dies, and if open it anymore, it starts missing again. I got the WD40 spray out and sprayed down the manifold and carb and no apparent leaks.
I'm going to pull the main nozzle out, and clean it better, but here's a question., I notice this nozzle has to O rings on it, do you think it's possible for these o rings to be bad, and cause my apparent lean issue, even though it doesn't surge or anything, it's got a sweet running spot with the choke at very certain point.....?