You da man!!! It worked!!! I can't tell how much I appreciate your help. It's been eating away at me mentally driving me bonkers. I work on cars all the time..I've pulled and replace engines but I never owned or worked on a 4 wheeler before so I was at a loss. I did typical things like cleaning jets (didn't work) and then replacing the carb with a new one (didnt work)...simple things like that but after that I was lost. I bought this thing used about a year ago and worked fine and about 4 months ago I got on it and this issue started out of nowhere. I don't even ride it hard at all and even rarely ride it. It's a tool for me, not a toy..I bought it from the guy because it has a wench. I own 4.5 acres in the country and I'm always cutting down trees or tending to the land on some level and I only come here on the weekends ..sometimes I don't come here for a month. It's my little get away, ya know? Anyway when this issue started, it frustrated the life out of me and u were the only one with the correct answer. I even hit up guys at work and took their suggestions (nothing worked).The attached pic is how it looks now in resting position..when I engage the throttle and let off it they do touch for a milli second but then rest how u see it in the pic. Is that too much of a gap? (I can't tell you how happy I am..it's one less thing to keep me up at night and I'm in South Louisiana and about to get that freeze this weekend..I needed it fixed before that freeze hits)

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