Step 27: Install carburetor and throttle linkage
This is where the service manual makes no mention of the plastic spacer between the carb and the intake. I guess it must've been an IH specification.
My K341 had the spacer. And, the rebuild kit only included one carb gasket. Because of this spacer, you're going to need two of them. Another order, delay, and trip to the dealer...
I think I already discussed earlier in the thread how I cleaned the gasket material off this thing. In hindsight, I think this would have been a good place to just go out and buy some
gasket material remover.
But here it is anyway: I used a razor blade ever-so-gently, then WD-40 with a scrubbing pad, and eventually used a scrubbing pad on my mouse sander (with WD-40)
With a gasket on either side of that spacer, you can mount up your carb and connect the linkage, which I apparently don't have any pictures of yet. Will try to add that later.
And that's it for tonight. We're on the home stretch!