Thanks Gadge, the VLV (Vector) manual is available in the manuals section. It is only 46 pages, but Pages 9 through 12 are on that carburetor. It seems I don't necessarily study and remember the content of everything I upload.
The manual is dated 12/96. I think that was before the US started on the reformulated fuel, gasohol, etc. Most carburetors at that time had some plastic parts, but this one is a mostly-plastic carburetor. Briggs made carburetor bodies from Minion, a hard white plastic, back in the 1980s, but they were not a great success I think - even their own service manual seemed to approach them a bit uneasily. On the other hand, the few plastic parts in Honda's Keihin carburetors seem to stand up well - I (rather cautiously) clean them with carburetor cleaner, though I certainly wouldn't soak them in it. The manual for the Suzuki 2 stroke mower engine specifies that the carburetor be soaked in carb cleaner, but warns you to exclude all the plastic bits when you do it. (We have a thread on that carburetor - it may be the most difficult to clean one anywhere in the archives, because of its non-removable emulsifier.)
