This morning gave it one more try by choking the carb with my fingers which for some reason the Aero started and has been working since. Put the airbox back on with a temp air filter and wide open throttle flat ground goes close to 40mph. I'm running 40-1 in the tank just to be safe. Seems to run great.
I am concerned about the oil pump though, I downloaded the 85 service manual from here and it mentions getting air out of the oil outake line. I used a syringe with oil fed into the outtake line in which it should come out of the intake fitting--nothing goes in. This model has the throttle cable connected(the 85 manual does not show this), maybe it doesn't work like that on this oil pump.
I did remove the 2 screws on the oil pump to check inside, it did seem ok, hopefully this didn't change anything. What can I do to confirm operation? I hope I haven't been to verbose in my first post.
Thanks in advance for any help, this forum has been invaluable in getting it running
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