When I took the breather cover off, I had noticed some dust inside the throat and a bit in the carb.
I discovered why today. There was a piece missing from the mounting plate around one bolt hole. Must have cracked out from vibration.
Now lots of you guys could just go to the parts pile and grab one or worst case scenario, buy one close by from Craigslist for a few bucks. Well that doesn’t happen here, there just aren’t any around. So I had to do the normal and spend a couple hours fixing it. I cut and shaped a little piece to go in from the inside and welded it in and did the same on the opposite side as it showed a small fracture and elongated hole too. It didn’t take much to grind then file the gasket side flat. So that’s done and painted and a generator to match!
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