First off, please forgive my ignorance as I have no experience working on anything mechanical. But, it sounded like fun so here’s what happened. I have a Weed Eater brand sting trimmer. (XL-20T). It’s about 8-10 years old. At the end of last year, it kept getting harder and harder to keep running with the choke off until finally I couldn’t start it at all. So this year I bought a re-build kit for the Warblo (I think) carburetor. I did the work (based on tips I read here) and now it starts great and seems to idle fine with the choke off. The problem I’m having is that the throttle response is horrible. I pull the trigger and it takes a few seconds to “build-up” steam and when it finally seems to be running on full throttle, I have no power. Meaning that when I put it to the grass, it almost dies unless I move real slow. And after about 10 minutes it dies and I can’t get it started again. But the next day it starts fine and then it all happens again. I think, and please feel free to correct me, that it’s getting flooded. The only thing I can think of that would cause this (and here we get into technical names I don’t know) is the little rocker assembly in the carb that attaches to the inlet needle (in a four stroke I think there would be a float doing the same thing as this little strip of metal). Anyway, there were no instructions with the re-build kit so I may have messed something else up. If this is the problem, how and to what specifications do I adjust that plate. Also, just for more information, I’ve read a lot around here about adjusting the TWO screws on the carburetor (H and L I believe). I have two screws on mine but one is marked with both the H and L. The other screw has a big spring wrapped around it and adjusts the position of the throttle lever at idle. In case this has any bearing on you solutions. Thanks for the help and sorry for the long post. Aaron

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