I bought my 67 Galaxie XL convertible roughly a year ago. Right off the bat, there were problems the prior owner either wasn't aware of, or declined to divulge.

As this is my first "project" car, it's the car I'm also learning on. Due to a stalling problem, I started haphazardly adjusting the carb. Ultimately, it turned out to be a tank/sending unit problem. That problem is now fixed, however now I'm dealing with potential out-of-adjustment issues.

Here's the carb:



I've done several things to the carb in the course of my aimless adjusting.

1) Disassembled & re-assembled the secondary pump
2) adjusted, un-adjusted, and re-adjusted the idle mixture screws (the two screws on either side of the primary fuel bowl)
3) adjusted & re-adjusted the fast idle screw (the one that artificially pulls or releases the throttle linkage).
4) I've unscrewed, then rapidly re-screwed the fuel metering access bolt (on top of the fuel bowl) while the car was running. That was a nice surprise.
5) Checked the fuel bowl level through the site plug. It's good.
6) Discovered three cracked vacuum nipple caps.

Now, the problems, as I see them.

1) The car hesitates something fierce when heavy throttle is applied from a stop, almost to the point of stalling it if I don't back off a little.
2) My exhaust is FULL of black soot (or was, until I turned down the mixture a little). You could cup your hand in front of the tailpipe, and smell a strong odor of gasoline.
3) After believing a rich mixture, I turned the screws in a bit. Then I was having problems with the car stalling at idle, so I turned the fast idle out a bit.

All in all, I think a tune from "zero" is necessary at this point. Probably easier for me as well.



Thoughts (other than box that thing up and send it to someone who knows what they're doing. )?