well boys and girls, as they say, "it takes a village". i am riding again.
thanks to all that offered advice.
Boule'tard, i thought surely to the good lord it couldn't be rings this early, but i am so new to this scooter i am listening to anything.
I partook of the buffet of advice I was offered, so it may not be simple to know what exactly the problem was. here is what i did.
first.....drained the bowl...what i collected had some very miniscule "trash" in it, but it was definitely not super clean. after replacing the clean out screw, i swithched it to prime, filled the bowl, and drained it again. this time not nearly what i got the first time.
moved then to the vacuum hose. on the end coming into the carb, was a very tiny place at the bend, i don't think it was all the way thru, but i trimmed it off and replaced it.
then to the petcock, drained the tank, removed the petcock, shot it full of carb cleaner on all three settings. when i took the petcock off at first, if i turned the valve to all the settings i couldn't hear anything, after shooting it with the cleaner, i could hear the diaphram moving when switching from "run" to "prime".
put it all back on, opened it to prime to fill the bowl, then switched it to "run".
pulled the choke to the first notch, fired the bike, took it just a second to catch, but then fired right up. idled about 2 minutes and i took it thru the neighborhood, 20 minutes of riding and the last ten pushing it pretty hard she sounds like her old self.
thanks again to this group of geniuses for helping out a complete stranger and newb to this bike and motor. i know much more about this animal than i did a week ago due to your advice and the pics and instructions on some of your posts on the tech page.
if you guys are ever in NC riding the parkway and get in a bind, let me know, i will be on the way with tools to watch someone that knows what their doing work.
safe ridin.
scott