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Hardest thing for me is getting a thread title that people will click on. By keeping one thread rolling along, it often times contain better overall info like D'Animal pointed out.
You can keep the thread on the first page by posting yourself, or keeping good updates on it.
I think you are darn close to getting a sweet running carb, hang in there. I suspect the photo posted in your other post helped on the linkage. Also good instructions on setting idle mix. But you will need a timing light, do you have one? That's the best way to tune it up right. You can use an electronic timing light to get RPM's, then set timing and etc... also. Idle speed will make your timing vary, as you set idle with the carb. So each thing will have to be tweaked and checked.
One thing I do when setting idle speed and idle mixture is set the primary butterfly to where a thin card, match book cover thickness is evident between the butterfly and bore wall. There is an exact spec for this, but hard to measure in the FSM. To have an engine idle correctly, you only want the primary opened up enough to provide vacuum to make the idle curcuit hole flow gas. The idle curcuit comes in below the primary butterfly. If the idle palte is opened too far, you will see gas being pulled from the passages above the plate at idle, and it is not as effecient. This equtes to only a turn or two of the idle set screw on the back of the carb, after it makes contact with carb linkage. The idle mixture screw then adjust the mix of gas and air in the idle curcuit passage. However, the only way to see where gas is getting pulled from is with the aircleaner off, which is not recommended, as it changes the settings some. You have to dial it in with the aircleaner on, so the vacuum is correct, as it would normally run that way.
If the primary plate is open too far, you are bypassing the idle curcuit, and adjusting the idle mix screw on the valve cover side of the carb will have very little if any effect on idle speed and performance. Remember this, if the idle mix screw does nothing to idle speed, then the primary needs closed some, and idle mix opened up a bit. A little bit goes a long ways too.
This may have been the issue all along with bad accel too, at least a contributing factor. All the curcuits have to work together, one fault in a curcuit can effect the others. And as you have probably found out, the idle curcuit passage to the base of the carb is pretty small and can plug up.
Sorry, windy, good luck
