Thanks guys for the replies and advice. The POS China carb I bought was a copy of the original Clinton carb, wasn't expecting much for the price. We'll see how the carb rebuild goes today. I'll keep my eyes open for a good westbend, thanks for the set up info. I'm not sure he'll ever drive the kart ...

My dad picked up a Gopher kart about 10 years ago ( he raced them as a teen in the late 50's), got it on eBay from someone who had it in a museum. It has a pretty clean looking Clinton A400 Panther engine that was supposed to be running at the time. It was removed for shipping and I finally had the ...