Thanks everybody for thier reply. The engine did not graduately die which would be an indication of being too lean. It did not cut off completely either, turns out the plug was working it way out so the engine started to lose its compression. Anyway, I couldn't sleep with this thing in my head so I stayed up til 3am taking this thing apart. I just took apart the carb and and clean up everything b/c there seems to be something wrong with it. Slap everything back on and she started right up. I would go with an OS but I'll hang onto this for now.