Points .020"? Armature air gap at .010-.014"? New plug? The fact you had trouble with the tank/carb sealing area makes me wonder if you have the head gasket sealed properly. It's even more critical.

It will be interesting to see what the sawfly larvae do here. I don't use any insecticides, fungicides or other chemical intervention in my flower gardens. Japanese beetles do get knocked off of plants and plunked into "the bubble bath of doom" (jar of soapy water), but that's about it. I don't even chase the voles out of my garden - it looks like we've worked out a peaceful compromise with them and now that the plants are maturing. They damage a few, but there's plenty left. Our approach for flowers is to grow tons of plants, space closely, no mulch, well placed tending rows so all parts of the garden are in easy reach for weeding, let garden thug plants fight it out on their own, and let insect pests work out a balance with predators. Of course, that means that some plants are just doomed to failure here. Hairy balls might be one of them. They were a great snack for hundreds of monarch caterpillars and then just tall twigs. If they were perennial I'd actually be quite content to leave them there to get savaged each year, but I do draw the line at sowing sacrificial plants every year. I figure that since one the main purposes of the flower garden is to grow enough seed to flower up the rest of the 15 acres, if a plant species is going to cry, die, or just be a ratty looking food source for insects they are going to eventually get phased out anyway. I hope that the columbines don't go that way, but if they do I'll just enjoy them until they are history. I do get a kick out of watching nature sort things out. But I'm also the person that's perfectly happy to let our goats make the decisions on how to landscape the rest of our land. I don't totally agree with their decision to eradicate about 5 acres of mature black raspberry plants, but they also took out the catbrier, poison ivy and multiflora rose. What's left is pretty cool, even if it isn't exactly how I might have done it. One other thing that has turned out to be really neat about the front flower gardens - the tending paths are being used by a number of birds as grocery shopping aisles. Several sparrows, chickadees, and cardinals come by at various points during the day and walk up and down the aisles - selecting munchie bugs, seeds and greens as they go. I wonder what will happen next out there! Lynda

We got a better video ... and the ears aren't bigger than the face, so grey is probably it. Here is a link that might be useful: Better picture

Natal, this is going way sideways, but I thought of you when I saw this video early this morning. Got some chuckles out of it. I didn't even know she was still on TV. Kate on AC Ridiculist