WOT miss when HOT

The problem has been fixed thanks to Roger Lee. I'm sure a lot of you know Roger or have seen his post on multiple forums. Well, he's come through again.

After talking for almost an hour on Friday and not coming up with an answer Roger said, "one more thing, check the choke shaft for a punch mark tell me which way it's facing". I did (after I found the small punch mark) and the 2/4 carburetor choke was assembled wrong. Punch mark 180 degrees out. After the 5 min. it took to remove the linkage, turn the shaft and put the linkage back on, I ran the engine and it seemed to be fixed. Saturday I put the cowl back on and went flying. Everything was as it should be. Today I flew again and did everything I could do to make it screw up, including sitting on the ramp for 15 min. after flying, to let everything get hotter. I did another T/O and then a touch and go and then declared the problem fixed.

There a lot of questions: how long has it been that way? There doesn't appear to be any reason the previous owner would have been into the choke in the 150 hrs. that he had it. Why did it the wait 30+ hrs. that I flew it? How did it run as good as it did? I am not knowing!

Thanks Roger