Fear not Chris, you are not alone.I just had the seat and tank off trying to find a gas leak. I'm pretty sure I got it when I tightened up the petthing, the O ring is now at work again. Put everything back together, rode down the street and the bike died, had to limp home on prime. I had put a pencil in the gas line, and the tip broke off when I pulled the pencil out, but I didn't notice that.
The fuel had a hell of a time trying to get past the pencil to the carb. Took it all apart, cleaned out he hose, put it all back together. Rode down the street, she sputtered and died..limped home after restarting on and staying on prime.
Yea, you guessed it, I never reconnected the vacumn line from the back of the petthingy to the right side of the carb..found it on the third try, seems to be running better now.