Carburetor Question - Is this a good call?

holy cow! lol. Just touch the top of the head of the bolts off on a grinder... done in 60 seconds with all 4. Done it a bunch of times for a lot of style of adaptors
or there is that. However, while I've done that in the past, almost always, I've managed to screw up the socket for allen key so it rendered them useless to re-use or take off. But I like your thinking.