I agree Chris.
Igor, my point on the metering lever is that you may have caused the problem with the adjustment you made. According to the Walbro manual, the leading cause of flooding is "Metering lever set too high". Since you have flooding, and you massively bent the metering lever to make it higher, we have a possible hypothesis that you should put it back the way you found it in the kit.
I'm not trying to be an after-the-event critic here Igor, what you did is what I would have done before I spent decades doing everything incorrectly and learning by the experience. I've done the equivalent of what you did many times on various parts of cars, including float levels. The important thing is to do each wrong thing as few times as possible. (Unfortunately, I was always good at forgetting past mistakes and repeating them. I still do that.)
