check your shutoff solenoid and see if it is fully engaging. after i put a plate in my 95 it ran terrible with no nothing and it turned out to be the shutoff solenoid was only engaging enough to start

 

How do I tell if its fully engaging or not?

 

The way I did, I turned the key to the run position and pushed the shutoff solenoid all the way up manually and it should pull all the way to the top and stay there on it's own. Mine was binding up and was only going part of the way up, basically it cut the power in half but when I would push it up manually and then start it, it ran great

 

Any updates?

It is always nice to know how things turned out/how the problem was resolved (or not).