What's the part # of the new regulator? The reason I ask is that there is 2 types of Impcos, standard and low vacuum operation. They have different springs in them, blue or orange. The GPX uses the low vacuum orange spring type. If you try to use the blue spring regulator on it will act just like you are describing with needing the hand over the carb to get it started but once running it keeps going.
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