Quote Originally Posted by jerry clayton View Post
OK----------theres no metering rods in Holley type carbs


With 11 inches vacume you need to use a 4.5 power valve


Carb upside down adjust the throlle blades to where the plate covers all but a little of the transfer slots-it should be to where the amount of the slot that is visabl looks like a tiny square-both primary and secondary


Adjust idle mixture screws to about 1 3/4 turns from full in-----be careful not to overtighten them to bottom out as you can disform the carb body seat hole /passage for the needle tip on the screws


You need to adjust timing curve in your distributor to have 15-16 degrees timing at idle (which should work out around 850) and no more than 34 or so at anything over 2500


Idle ease if you have it is adjusted from the top of carb thru the air cleaner stud hole with a fairly narrow straight blade screw driver-------start of by bottoming out the adjustment and then opening a couple of turns-count the half turns on screw driver----get it where it will run and then work on the mixture screws and keep adjusting the idle eze to a smooth idle speed-----if it idles too high rpm you will start to get timing advance and thusly will probably retard the timing to set your desired numbers-----fuel pressure not more that 5 1/2 lbs---have fire extingser and escape plan (especially if electric fuel pump)
I've got everything adjusted like you said. Still a little rich at idle but plugs are now a lighter brown instead of black. It doesn't load up. I was cruising along at about 60 when the engine died. The teeth are gone on the composite distributor gear I installed 3 years ago, so now I've got something else to fix.