Update 11/9/2019
Success!
Ok guys back from my work trip and was able to work on the truck today. I decided something had be be wrong with the float, needle or seat. I took the carb back off and compared the floats and noticed the new float I installed was bent wider and I think it was catching the bowl or the gasket. So i bent it to line perfectly in the center of the gasket. I also removed the needle and float seat and flushed everything just in case there was debris in there. I put it all back together and holding the carb upside down I blew through the fuel line input and it was blocked off. Turning the carb right side up and blew through and air was moving. I could hear the float moving up and down so that was good. The other issue I found is the gasket that I installed between the carb and the riser had blocked off the vacuum port. After some research it appears that it is recommended not to use a gasket here so I deleted it. I also hooked the mechanical fuel pump back up and flushed the line back to the tank and hooked up a temporary fuel can and hose here. I used a little starting fluid as there was no gas in the lines or filter bowl to get things moving and it fired right up! Once fuel made it to the bowl it was under it's own power at that point. I sprayed some starting fluid around the base of the carb to make sure I didn't have a leak where the gasket was removed and all was good.
It was running a bit rough so I pulled out my timing light and checked timing. It appears it had been set to the triangle so I started trying to get the timing set and ran into issues getting the distributor to move. So I removed the vacuum advance line and plugged it and took all the plugs out and rotated the engine till I saw the ball bearing and painted it white. I also was able to loosen up the distributor so it would be easy to turn. At this point I'm feeling good and fire it back up and my timing light refused to work! Not sure if I dropped it or what but it's dead. Looks like I'm going to have to order a new one. I adjusted it the best I could and adjusted the mixture screw and it was good enough to take for a spin.
The alternator is still disconnected so I made sure the battery was fully charged and took it for a quick little spin around my property. So far everything looks good and I even worked the dump bed with no issues. I removed all the plugs and cylinder 5 is oily so I'll need to dig into that. My next steps are to do a compression check, rewire the alternator and make sure it is good, then start making some decisions about where to go from here. My guess it will be to do a major tune up (plugs, cap, rotor, points, wires, replace all fluids and hoses, and adjust valves) and rebuild the brakes. Past this the wiring is incredibly sketchy so I need to decide if I'm going to rewire the entire thing now or just patch it with new wiring where needed until I'm ready to restore the cab.
Sorry no pictures today as really there was nothing that has changed on the truck. I did take some videos but don't really know how to get those here so maybe I'll try to figure that out.
