Stalling during first fifteen minutes

[alanmcorcoran]

Thanks for the info guys. I am actually blessed with a lot of "ability." It's experience I lack, and that usually is the difference between getting a result and just wasting time in the garage. As softie pointed out, lots can go wrong with cleaning a carb. I used to be bolder about diving into this stuff, but over the years, I have found more and more that things are often no longer built to be easily serviced, and can be very tricky to disassemble and even trickier to re-assemble. My frst experience tearing down a notebook computer put me off electronics for years, until I finally sucked it up and replaced (successfully!) the color wheel on a 55 inch DLP TV. I only did it because I had already bought a plasma to replace it, the "do it yourself" cost was $75, the dealer cost was $600 and I figured the thing probably wasn't worth a lot more than that.

I think there's a good chance they really didn't do anything other than change the oil. In any case, I will be taking it back in.