Well...after many attempts of of carb removal/cleaning, fuel pump and primer bulb change, to no avail, the engine still died out at idle and coughed.
I started looking at the un-obvious like timing and sync. I started jacking the timing arm (connects to the remote throttle) and found out that I had positive response from the engine. Seems I had a little slop in the remote cable and also gobs of grease preventing the timing are to work properly.
I spray-cleaned out all the ****ty grease and took out the cable slop via the adjustment at the connection. Now it idles nice and works fine.
I must have had a bit of cable stretch. I presume.
I started looking at the un-obvious like timing and sync. I started jacking the timing arm (connects to the remote throttle) and found out that I had positive response from the engine. Seems I had a little slop in the remote cable and also gobs of grease preventing the timing are to work properly.
I spray-cleaned out all the ****ty grease and took out the cable slop via the adjustment at the connection. Now it idles nice and works fine.
I must have had a bit of cable stretch. I presume.