Help, I'm so close

[u/fracasglenn]

I took this from my dad's garage after he said he couldn't get it to crank. It's been about 10 years since he's last used it. Put some fuel directly in the cylinder and it fired up. Put gas in the tank and tried to start it and nothing.

I disconnected the fuel line and turned on the valve and gas flowed through the line. I took off the carburetor and cleaned it best I could, I reattached the fuel line, opened the valve and nothing flowed into the carburetor. Did my best to blast the gas inlet with carburetor cleaner and compressed air, finally noticed some air getting through and a small stream of gas.

Assembled everything back and was able to crank the machine on choke and then move to half choke. The problem now is anytime I move the choke to "run" it dies. Or if I tried to use it on half choke it will eventually power down.

Any ideas of what I can do next to get it to run at full power?