As it turns out, the choke bar had a round spring like clip that was pushed out of place causing the linkage to become crooked and jam. This threw off the lower linkage that adjusts/sets the idle thus causing the idle screw to jam to the side of the plate. To temporary fix that, I placed a washer to straighten up the linkage so the idle would work (As seen in the pic - yellow arrow shows the washer and the blue shows the idle point), but this would not work in the winter when I need the choke. On top of all this, the carb developed a gas leak from sitting.
So, the whole problem was the truck was sitting for a while, someone pulled real hard on the choke to try and start the truck, and the rest is history.
In the mean time, the gas leak forced me to look for a rebuild kit (not as easy as I thought, but I found one so I bought two as a backup). I broke the carb down, soaked the carb in carb cleaner and started the rebuild. This is when I found the round ring for the choke was not where it was suppose to be, which I fixed. The kit came with a tension spring that straighten the lower assemble (thus removing the need for the washer as a temp fix), still had to bend the assembly back a little to get it to line-up. I discovered the gas leak was the brass fitting the gas line connect to (looks like it stripped the carb, but I took the washer out and grabbed enough threads for now, so it seals...), lubed everything up and now its running like a charm. I plan to look for a parts carb at Fall Carlisle. Thanks everyone for their input and help!
