excellent ideas guys - thank you.
I didnt think about hf - I love that place as much as a despise it
I think that I'm in the 1 to 3 hp category....but again...if HF has something....
I've never separated the engine from the rest of the snowblower, but if float-y carbs exist for this model, I might ask about it at my local small engine junkyard.
Thank you all,
-John