nobody ever has trouble until .... big_eek something goes wrong
did you check the float level while you had the top off?
have a good fuel filter on the line to the carb?

Bill

Moved over to the Passing Lane

"When we tug a single thing in nature, we find it attached to the rest of the world" ~ John Muir
"When we tug a single thing on an old truck, we find it falls off" ~ me
Some TF series details & TF heater pics