Starting a TQ rebuild - tips and tricks?

You have to be careful taking it apart that you don’t damage the phenolic resin fuel body. Other than that,make sure the butterfly shafts are not loose. There are bushing kits to repair them if they are loose from wear. Rebuild is fairly simple, its the tuning that is the time consuming part and parts are hard to come by.

There are folks that specialize in rebuilding them and that is what I would do.