So, the good news is that the manifold work helped the leaks and it started up fine and will run without the choke and itsnt overheating. However, it still won't idle unless its set high. The vacuum is only reading about 13. Without occasional revs, it stalls. Fuel delivery?
Should add that I have the timing advanced pretty far already trying to get the vacuum up.
Just re hash what's been done so far:
Fuel tank drained, clean fuel, new fuel filter
Rebuilt carb
fixed manifold leaks
New plugs, wires, cap, rotor
New points, gapped
Distributor taken apart and cleaned
Timing set (light but don't have rpm guage)
Valves adjusted
Compression and leak down tests ok