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Hey guys. This is my first post here. I have a Paladin 150 also, with the same issue. This is the only related thread that comes up on a google search.

I'm an auto master tech. I bought my 150 off a friend. It's a 2012 and at 550 miles it also stopped running. I did a few checks and found it starts right up with some carb cleaner, and it was not getting fuel. I took the advice of the member on this thread who did the electric pump conversion and installed a 2-4 psi electric pump. It definitely gets fuel now, but it was pouring out the overflow on the carb, so I figured the bowl float was gummed up. Pulled the bowl (this carb uses break away screws on the bowl btw), and it was totally corroded inside from sitting with no fuel in it. I cleaned it all up and cleaned out all the passages and put it back together. It still pours gas out the overflow, so now trying to figure out if the pump is too much or not...

But here's a few observations about the info on this thread, and some questions.

First off... it seems there was a communication issue in this thread about the location of the lines on the tank. They ARE on the top. The picture of the tank the original poster put up, is actually upside down. Those two lines are on the top of the tank.

Second, I'm a little confused on the two gas lines that go to the carb. One is obviously the feed line from the pump. I'm not sure what the other is...

If you look at the picture below, you see the fuel feed line on the top, and a second line on the bottom with a spring on it...



Now look at this pic, and you see the bottom line listed as a drain line...



Now here's my confusion. In the second pic, it makes sense as a drain line, because there is a drain screw in the bowl next to it. However, on the 150 carb, there is no drain screw, it's just blank, and the fitting on the bottom of the bowl that the hose goes on, is open inside the bowl. And that hose with the spring on it that attaches to it, just points down towards the ground. So basically...if you put fuel in the bowl, shouldn't it just pour out that drain line?

That's what made sense to me when I had it apart, so when it put it back together I put the feed line to the bottom fitting.

Thoughts??