Old Car and Bike rambling

I came into some cash after selling some items I didn't want on ebay. I had enough money to order a few parts that were missing from the rack of carburetors that I bought on ebay. 4 jet needles, 1 diaphragm spring, 3 throttle springs, and 4 float gaskets cost me about $100 after shipping. Yikes! big bucks for a handful of junk. This would have hurt alot more if I actually had to pay for these things with my hard earned cash, but the ebay funds makes it a bit easier to swallow the cost for this carburetor upgrade. I also ordered some o-rings ( http://www.oringsusa.com/ ) and some stainless allen head screws ( http://myworld.ebay.com/ebaymotors/stainlesscycle ) for roughly $20 more. One of the caps had a broken vacuum port so rather than buy a new cap, I just bought a small aluminum spacer from the hardware section at Lowes home improvement. In re-assembling the carb pieces, I discovered the choke mechanism was not engaging the #4 enrichening circuit becuase t