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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KMixson" data-source="post: 385960" data-attributes="member: 432"><p>If after taking the line off the pump going to the carb, did you squeeze the primer bulb to prime the pump? There should be fuel coming out of the line coming from the pump going into your can. The primer bulb should not get hard with that line disconnected. The bulb gets hard whet the the float inside the carb bowl raises and closes the needle valve supplying fuel to the bowl. If your jets inside the carb are plugged too bad it may idle for a few seconds also on the fuel pumped into the throat of the carb by the primer bulb. The primer bulb will supply more pressure than the pump will and can send a little fuel into the throat of the carb than the pump could.</p></blockquote><p></p>