With my string trimmer on the blink for the past few weeks the grasses and weeds surroundibg the property have been growing wild. Fueled by a rainy spring and a hot sunny summer all sorts of garden variety weeds have been growing like a wildfire on a dry windy day, to the point that it was becoming a neighborhood eyesore. I determined that several years of alcohol & additive laden gasoline has yet again taken it's toll on the carburetor, fuel lines, and filters... to the point that it no longer gave me a spark of life. I opted to put in a new carburetor and found a carb on ebay that comes complete with new fuel lines, several extra filters, extra spark plug and even the screwdriver-like tool used for adjusting the needle valve (which the manufacturers don't like to make available to the average consumer). Well, putting on the new carb, lines, filters, etc. and she lives yet again, starts and runs like new. Now I can mow down and clean up the overgrown mess outside. This time around I am going to play it smart and I'm keeping the old carburetor and rebuilding it so I'll have a rebuilt spare when in a year or two it starts running like crap again as the lousy gasoline on the market today takes it's toll on all the new parts I put in.