That was also my feeling originally - that some sort of extra air was getting in that I couldn't figure out.
I thought that spraying the WD40 around while it was running on the original carb would have located it, but was unsuccessful. That's why I spent the $25-ish (if I remember right) on a new carb.
After sleeping on this and since I'll have time this morning, I'll take the recoil off, get a few decent pix and look at it all again because I really believe it HAS to be the governor somehow, despite my certainty that it's right.
I'll search around the Net for a few drawing of what it should look like just in case while drinking coffee, but I made a sketch from memory about what it looks like right now. Maybe I hooked something wrong after taking everything apart? I have no idea, but despite the fact that it looks right to me in how it operates, SOMETHING is wrong.
Does this look right to anyone?
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