Peer Pressure is home, and it’s like driving a completely new Scout. She fires up on the first turn of the key, idles smooth, smells good (for a 34-year-old carbureted engine), and doesn’t backfire when my foot comes off the accelerator. I ran errands early this morning, then drove her into work, and I don’t reek of exhaust and gasoline. I cannot describe how happy all of this makes me.

And, the problem was not with the float bowl itself; it was with two little O-rings which were actually supposed to be X-rings, and were not even in the carburetor when he took it apart. Stupid O-rings.