So you are saying that Ed Abbey was right..." a word is worth a thousand pictures...if it is the right word"
Here are some details.
After the last time it ran, it would immediately leak fuel from the carb after shutting down. I took the carb apart and found that the float was miss adjusted, (at less than 1/4 inch distance from the inverted top of the carb), and the main nozzle was bent. The venturi was bent and had cracks in it (this was described in a different post), and the choke plate was in backwards. I reassembled the carb with new (plastic) venturi, new main nozzle, corrected choke plate, new gaskets and corrected float. For a while I erroneously believed that it was missing jets but turns out it only has the 1 idle jet.
The reassembled carb now holds fuel with out leaking at first. After cranking it for a bit it will drip some fuel out of it. It just won't start.. Its close but just won't catch. I checked the ignition and the rotor is pointing to the number 1 cap terminal with the timing marks on 31 degrees BTDC. I made no other changes between the first running and doing the carb...so I'm a bit stumped. I haven't checked the compression after the new head and gasket but I'm assuming it is good (perhaps bad assumption at this point), With compression, fuel and spark that sucker should run.
