1947 Chevrolet 1.5ton - original 216 motor.
Hi - When I bought my truck a few months ago, the PO had removed the carb to rebuild it, so the truck was neither together nor running. I purchased a W1 rebuild kit from classic truck parts and put everything together. However, there didn't seem to be much direction outside of setting float height. Can anyone offer any other advice as to initial setup, as in # of turns out on idle screws, or any other "hey, you really want to make sure X is set to Y specification", etc? She'll fire off ether but doesn't want to run otherwise. I've verified valve tappet clearances, points gap and timing. It just doesn't seem to be getting go-juice.
I've had the head off to unstick valves and replace a broken rocker and several bent pushrods. Plugs and wires are new, but haven't replaced points and button yet because I have good spark. The original glass-top-globe mechanical fuel pump was shot so I replaced it with a new non-filtered model specified for this application (not a generic). At this time I'm running it off of a test bottle of fuel to the mechanical fuel pump (truck doesn't have a proper fuel tank yet), and am priming with an electric fuel pump, which I then pull out of the way when I see it's got fuel at the carb (with the hard line off the bowl).
What should I be doing differently?
