What would cause a ThermoQuad to throw gasoline everywhere? I have just finished hooking up a new throttle cable and bracket and then I tried to start the car and it ran real choppy and lots of smoke coming out of the exhaust pipes. I shut it down and then noticed gas all over the top of the carb, all around the top flaps and all down around the front and sides of the carb. It threw out quite a bit of gas (some gas went down into the intake valley).