That junk is poison to me. I'll never put it in a small engine or any of my old cars or trucks.

The soft lines can also separate the 'inner' lining from the nylon reinforcing and the outer shell. The inner lining can suck shut under enough vacuum, leading to fuel starvation and stalling. restarts after a few minutes but then continued use under higher vacuum causes it to stall again.

Baffling, as all the soft lines 'look' fine, but are gummi-bears inside. Replacing them might solve your problem.

And pulling the lifter area covers, and observing it while running may tell you a lot.

A great running engine that I bought for $500 turned out to be a parts engine once I pulled the side covers and found massive amounts of hardened sludge, for example.

Are you looking for the outlet? I might have a spare if you need it. The spare inlet however is non factory on that engine.

I had a throttle cable for one of my small engines that had seized up.

Hit it with a propane torch and heated up the shell, being careful not to go to far and damage the handle, then juiced it with ATF/Acetone while it was still good and warm. That got it loose. Then I weighted it down on the concrete with a couple of bricks and pressure washed it at close range. Got a metric crap-ton of rust out of the inside of the shell. Then soaked it again; haven't had any issues with it ten years later. It lives outside, undercover.

That looks like a throttle return spring. It may or may not be original.

Is everything working as it should be? Any difference in the way systems are behaving....

My '37 had about three different springs on it as none of them were correct and a moron P.O. had just kept kludging it up rather than find the right part for the job, and connect the linkage properly.

Now we know what computers do when they're stoned out of their gourds.

All we need to go with that is a platinum blonde, well-sculpted, and we're good to go.

Yard art.

Period.

I seriously doubt it.