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Old 12-26-2002, 02:12 PM
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You allow it to pull more air by giving it another place for air to sucked in. Engines want to run fast, you slow them down to idle speed by choking off their ability to suck air in.
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In a fit of 16 year old genius, I looked down through the carb while cranking it to see if fuel was flowing, and it was. Flowing straight up in a vapor cloud, around my head, on fire.
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