Odd that you still didn't get it to make contact when you fitted a different carburetor, Redeye. I was wondering if it had an anti-dieseling solenoid, but there was no way you would have bad solenoids on two carburetors simultaneously, and a bad connector wasn't going to fail to make contact twice running. To me, there is no substitute for some decent pictures, so we see the solenoid, and naturally focus on it because they give so much trouble.
