Quote from: dropitlow88 on April 14, 2012, 05:42:42 AM
pinesol? Interesting.

Google it, it's safe on orings and plastic parts but also cuts varnish easily. Plus it smells good

Even more interesting lol. Learn something new every day.

Got all my parts and rebuilt the carbs last night, couldn't figure out where the smallest O-ring in the K&L kit was supposed to go? Put everything back together and she fired right up and idled pretty good. Took it out for a test ride at 11:30pm and she runs through all the gears and to redline no problem.

I guess something was clogged and the pinesol soak and compressed air/wd-40 cleaned it out. Thanks for all the help everyone!

Wow, what a mechanic ride (nightmare) that was for you.  I've been going through the same ordeal kinda myself on my 2004 etc.  So Good job!  Hand your wife a bill for $300 plus.  That's what I was told it would cost to fix mine anyways.  Its been very frustrating for myself since the weather has been so great and I've not ridden in over a year.  Hopfully mine will be back together by this weekend.  Now that you got it all cleaned and running nicely, I'd suggest you start using only 100% gas instead of the ethanol crap if you can find it.  If not get you a bottle of stabilizer and start putting that in your tank.  It can't hurt because I've definitely learn the hard way.  All of my gas lawn equipment have been in the same shape and its been a pain to fix it all myself.  It seems I've become a small engine repair shop now LOL all because of this cheap fuel.  My one year old peasure washer is now in the repair shop for the same reasons too and so I'm just plain over it!  I'm hopping the warranty will cover it but I doubt it.  Anyway, it's my own fault for not putting in a stabilizer, so hopefully this will not happen again for me.  So I've bought the Amsoil Stabilizer since I'm a "preferred costumer" and I'm going start using it.