thanks man. i opened that piece up and it was frozen. cleaned it up and bam... i have a generator again.

The Jet in the brass part that was missing the pin was plugged.
The other part that could be plugged is the filter.

Did you replace the fuel pump and fuel filter later?

Someone removed the pin as a means to  temporarily bypass and never replaced the part as you did.  I’m learning as I go replaced Starter bought 3 new battery’s I got crank but still no start . 🤔 gunky gas in carb I’m thinking

Flot is stuck take out air filter carb cleaner start it