I hate these little gremlins. I start blaming it on stupid things like I put my left sock on instead of the right.
I'm not blaming the carb but you can clean it up a little with 68 main jets. You can get the 32's nearly white with brown/grey tips which will help oncarbon build up and thus fouling the plug.
It's better to go leaner and use an earlier power valve like an 85. An 1850 idle is a lean carb while a 3310 is noticably richer at idle.
The 3000 rpm that you mentioned is right around the idle to main circuit switch over.
Anyway, good luck!
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