I take mine there. Just have to call them and set up an appointment.

Did you not have the same problem with your little motor?

Guy you should win an award or something for getting so many people to contribute to your threads, two threads with a total of 22 pages, wow.

The trick is to draw Judd in to post on your thread, just mention duck susage or something and he come out of the woodwork, but once he posts it goes viral.

That is what I did.

However...I know it idled like crap and would run fine under throttle. The guy replaced the fuel pump, my fuel line and removed the quick disconnect I had on the tank. I don't know which actually fixed the problem but I dropped him a couple hundred and was happy ever after

It was some guy that worked in his garage that was a small motor genius...he either moved or isn't doing it anymore and I don't have his number. I asked one of the lawn guys that mowed who worked on their mowers. That was how I found him.

Guy. Get on YouTube and find a demonstration of cleaning a carb. I think you think it's harder than it really is.

I've already told you waaaaay back when you first posted this..remove carb, drop bowl and clean it all, especially your pilot (idle jet)
Takes all of 30 minutes. I give it a 2% chance it is your fuel pump and that's only because of Murphys Law. Quit jacking around and start turning wrenchs. Waaay over thinking this. And yes your motor is CDI.

I got a hunsky it was the quick connect

Heard of a lot of problems with those.

Guy, you can come practice on my 4 wheeler carb.

No need to appease me, it is your motor and your trip back to the ramp. To answer your question, I don't know if it is your pump or not. I was relaying my experience on my last motor. I had the exact same symptoms you describe. We never got around to your pump. Is it mechanical or is it electric. Mine was mechanical. The alcohol will destroy all the rubber. The mechanical pump started a slow death at less than 50 hours. It made it extremely difficult to diagnose because it was such a slow death. I have not kept up with the carb issues and don't know if they (Factory) has recognized the problem and fixed it or not. If they have, then carry on. I switched to twin electric pumps and my life was much happier afterwards. If one pump quit, then you just flipped a switch and you got a new pump up and running.

It ran better than when it was new. I would imagine that was because it took so much head pressure to bring fuel that far and that high. I would also imagine the combination between the head pressure ( caused by length and height of fuel travel) and the alcohol wearing out the pump just made the motor suffer.

After I went 100% Sta-Bil I have yet to fave a fuel related issue. I have 4 Stihl chainsaws and a weedeater. I went to houston and bought 5 gallons of gasoline with no alcohol. I treated it with Sta-Bil. I replaced the carbs and fuel lines on all of these little engines. The only gas allowed in them is the stabilized alcohol free gas. We shall see the results in a few years.

Seriously, last year took my carb off my 7hp longtail and tried to clean it, put it back on, started it and gas squirted everywhere, had to take it to a lawn mower shop.

But I will give it another shot, first I'm going to try that mechanic in a bottle, had 2 lawn mower shops tell me it is the best.