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Old 05-25-2022, 10:00 AM
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I've confirmed that the secondary butterfly is sticking. Reached under the air cleaner and manually pushed the lever for the secondary butterflies, and the idle dropped. So do I need a new gasket for when I put the baseplate back together, or are they reusable to some extent? The carb was completely rebuilt about 2 years ago, probably has under 200 miles on it.
Gasket is probably reusable. That’s what Cliff told me when I asked him about mine before I rebuilt my Qjet and he was right it was fine to reuse. And my gasket was probably 8+ years old.

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