is there anything i need to worry about when i take apart and clean a carb on a gx160 5.5 hp honda engine? i have the gaskets for it... anything i need to watch out for though?

From what i can tell its just like a carb for the 5 - 7 hp briggs carbs. Putting the carb back on is gonna be a pain cause the air filter housing, then a flange then the carb then another flang then mounting area so it should take 4 mounting gaskets. Its a pain to get everything lined up at the same time. (It took me 25 min atleast to get mine all back together and iv been working on small engines since i was strong enough to pickup a wrench.) Just keep at it and make sure those 2 long 10mm bolts go through the right holes and dont over tighten anything or you could warp something or snap the bolts.

ok, thanks. It is all taken apart... on the bottom part of the carb there was a brown deposit.... i was suprised how much was there though.... lets see if it works again! :]

p.s. fuel line was kinda a pain to get off... but i got it pretty quick without cutting it.

ok got it all back together and it still wont start... it still isn't getting gas..

do you have gas in it?

I know its a silly question, but even I've done it

i did have gas in it. I took it apart again and tryed to find any place i did not clean and i didn't clean the most important thing! (because i didn't know where it was) the needle jet! so it runs now but with one problem... the idle is set wrong... im not sure where it is supposed to be... it was almost all the way out so i screwd it in almost all the way so i could at least take it off choke.

vacuum leak?