perhaps you can try adjusting the idle speed and mixture screws as referenced in the jpg image i linked in my post above. turning the mixture screw in (clockwise) will lean the mixture and the opposite direction will richen the mixture at idle. turning the idle speed screw in will increase the idle speed. if you cannot get your engine to idle below 1000 rpms you have a vacuum leak. places vacuum leaks can arise at:

- Engine-to-manifold gasket

- Air Control Valve or ACV Block-off plate

- Vacuum source for Anti Afterburn Valve

- Vacuum source for vac brake booster

- Big black vac nipple (capped stock) near where shutter valve was

- Shutter valve or its associated vac holes

- Manifold-to-spacer

- Vacuum nipples on spacer

- Spacer to carb

- Vac ports on carb (should be 2-3 on either side I believe, plus extras at the top by the alt compon late models)

another thing that comes to mind besides focusing on the carb is the basics since you mentioned the car sat for 12 years.



the basics include fuel, compression, spark. are you getting spark in your ignition system? do you have good compression? is there fuel flowing adequately?



easy way to test compression is to pull out lower spark plugs on each housing and disconnect fuel pump fuse and crank the engine. if you hear three even "woosh" sounds then its most likely ok. if you hear a woosh woosh pause woosh woosh pause then you may have some stuck or bad seals. there are various methods to try to see if you can resolve them by pouring some marvel mystery oil or seafoam into the housings and rotate the engine by hand and let the fluid sit for a few days.

I did do this before in a previous post on Oct. 10 here is what I said



I started it up making the biggest white cloud come out of my tailpipe. The car died a few times but after 5-10 minutes it was running a lot better and actually idled with smoke coming out of the I think catalytic converter or exhaust manifold but after about another 10 minutes it would not idle but it did run. But the next day I was back to square one. It did not want to run and I was lucky if I could keep it alive 30 secs.



If I did this marvel mystery oil thing again but let it sit longer do you think that would help?



Also there are three good even whooshes coming from the engine.



One last thing in a different post of this someone told me to disconnect the fuel line that goes to the Carburetor and put the line in a bottle to see if there was any fuel flow and there was.



I guess I could try turning the screws. And see what happens.



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