Sort of a meatball thing, isn't it? The whapping with the screw driver handle ??
You have a drain at the very bottom bottom of the bowl that in most cases can accept a piece of clear hose.
directly above me Put some clear tubing on it and bend the clear tube up so it goes up the carb body (tape it or tie it so it doesn't flop around) so you can see what is going on inside the bowl. Crank the drain screw open so the level of the gas sitting in the clear tubing shows the exact same fluid level as what is sitting in the float bow.
The gas level will have to show in this clear tube to visibly be "higher than the venturi"and thus be able to go down the throat, enter into your intake valves and go down your cylinder to get to your oil.
And believe me, you have to be leaking a good bit to get it all the way up around and down into the oil.
Stuck floats leaks a bunch, bad needle valve leaks fuel by the slow drip --- drip ---- drip ---- one slow drop at a time.
Put on some clear tubing on and give her a firm whack or two and see if the gas level stays out of the venturi level now.
Question:
Why did you take your Carburetor apart? Was there an issue of some sort?