These engines are very fuel fussy. Once you get the carb cleaned, use only stabilized ethanol free premium fuel and never leave any fuel sitting in the system for any length of time. The manual lies!
after much online searching and manual reading, was that the the armature plate must have good electrical conductivity with the powerhead retainer. I assumed that since it rotated it needed grease and I used an ordinary grease and my spark became erratic. Is there a special conductive lube, or...