Welcome to the group Terrible and another Bob. I don't think there is much difference in the new model and the old as far as the drive train is concerned and this is where all the knowledge here will help a lot. The rest is just flash. The carb on mine is made in Japan, but from what I can tell it is exactly the same as what everyone else here has. The electric system is a bit different and you shouldn't have the head light issue of the 2010 as ours is a two position switch and seems function as it should.

allycat, thanks for the link.

Goodbar, I watched the splendid movie Crelow posted and was amazed to discover that this has happened to my engine a few times. I thought it was just stalling out. I will be at warmed up idle, give it some throttle, quit. Makes that zzzzz sound too, almost like the starter buzz. There is no pop or white vapor as he described in other posts so I thought I was good. Fires right back up and runs fine. I'll put the new plug in and tweak the idle control and see if that doesn't help. I checked the old plug it was at .025. I would think that with how the plug looks it would be running rich.

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What are you setting your valves at?