Thank you. Yes, it's not bad. Both fixes were pretty straightforward.

Now I'm fighting a problem with the starter. It bucks and drags and sounds terrible. I shimmed it one way - got worse. Shimmed both bolts - even worse and sounds terrible! I'm going to try the other way just to see if it helps, but I suspect the snout on the starter may be faulty even though it was brand new. I ordered a high torque mini-starter. We'll see what happens when it gets here... Maybe then I can start driving it around town. I'll report here.