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 Posted: 08-14-2020 06:06 pm
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 Tim: most of the rebuild kits do include both the gaskets, but I only use the one(originally it only had this one) that mounts to the carb body. The additional 2nd gasket that they want to have between the 2 choke halves is thick enough to reduce the necessary spring pressure onto the inner half, which can allow a gas leak(I have had to actually carefully sand down the outer half to get a smooth/leak free surface).
What I do instead is use a pin and put Permatex aviation gasket cement(#98) CAREFULLY where the gasket would have gone.
I didn't plan on all this typing, but as lob=ng as I'm here, here are a couple of more tricks:
1)the 2 bolts from the fuel bowl that go into the flow venturi should have #2, #98, #3 Permatex on the thread ends as they are prone to getting some gas sucked up.
2)The lower choke machine screw should also hace the same(even use some teflon tape on the end) as it directly enters the fuel bowl AND WILL LEAK
enough now--fingers getting tired