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MW sures knows how to write an eloquent, well meaning thought out post. You can tell his emotional intelligence is off the charts. I have not interacted with him directly as much as others on board but I trust any contributions will go to good use. Venmo sent.

Checked things out this morning. Looking at the back valley with a mirror things seem sealed up, no oil residue or anything obvious. Pulled the carb because I think I'll have it rebuilt just to make sure. Did find one suspect spot on the intake where is mating with the head. Looks like. A...

Brand new and tight for that reason.

I'll try that. There is only 3 vac lines on this truck. Vac advance, brake booster, and PCV. Everything else is capped so at least I dont have to hunt to much lol.

It was running pretty dam smooth before the high idle kicked up, pulling decent vacuum as well so maybe if one spot wasn't thick enough with the RTV is gave out. The gaps on the valley was pretty large and the metal there is not that thick so you can't just run one single bead of rtv and it be...

I didn't pull the line off, assuming it's getting fuel since it ran for a bit, the fuel pump is brand new but it could be junk. A bunch of people have issues with them.

Ya with the other comments I'm thinking the back valley rtv didn't seal as good as I thought.

Not a bad idea either!.

I like that. Never done it that way.

Ya if I can get it to fire back up and idle in a safe manor ill try and check for leaks for sure. If not the carb will go the shop to make sure I didn't mess it up.

Also possible, I'll check the carb bolts. Hopefully not the intake. I felt pretty good how it seated. I followed the factory torque procedures. It did idle pretty well for about 3 to 5 mins.

Ya it could be. I had both screws set at 1.5 turns to start. Was also thinking I was running low fuel, but that seems okay. Gauges are not working right now but you can tap on the tank behind the seat and hear that there's a fuel inches of fuel. I also rebuilt the carbs, and had never done it...

One more success. I was able to get it running and ideling well. Had a vacuum gauge hooked to make sure it was steady and not bouncing around like before with the bent rods. It was sitting right around 10. But just as I was getting ready to mess with the timing it randomly starting ideling way...

Small success this morning. Wanted to try a couple things before work. Pulled the top of the distributor, and a wire came loose from it solider joint. Really shitty design. You have to take the top off to put the plugs on but they give you only about 2" of clearance and if you try and flip on on...

It finally makes sense to me. My mind could not grasp the correct order, it's counter clockwise, that's what was screwing me up. Still does not explain the no spark though. And at least I feel good about the position of the distributor. But one problem at a time lol.

Would this be the same regardless of what distributor you have?

Ya that's how I did it. I made sure when it seated it was pointed at #1.

Ya that's the order I have on my intake manifold as wellI, but I guess I'm still confused on the distributor wire orders though. What I thought was after setting the number 1 cylinder TDC and having the rotor pointing at number 1. Now the plug port right after the rotor is for the number 1...

Lol thanks! Ya I figured I'd pull the top off again and make sure at least nothing loose on me.