Ah yes. The venerable two-problems-at-the-same-time scenario.
The most insidious, and least respected of the venerable scenarios.
Its never the carburetor, until it is. Meaning that it is wise to test all other components prior to digging into the carburetor.
It would have been recommendable to test for spark as soon as the engine died. The faulty coil would have been discovered at that time. Coils very often fail in that manner. Once the engine reaches operating temperature (15 minutes of running time) the coil gets heat soaked. A failing coil does not do well at that temperature and conks out, only to work again once it cools off.
Your float setting may well have contributed to your issue, but finding that bad coil prior to digging into the carburetor would have made your fun times funner.
I am as happy as you are that you figured out what was causing your nightmare.
Victory!
Thank you, but remember what I said about it restarting and I could rev the engine and it would run? It makes no sense. I had spark when it would die. Just not at idle. Maybe cause I am running a Generator and not and Alternator?
I also had spark with the other distributor, but not under compression.
