Happy New Year everyone!! After a weekend of tearing apart the rochester, it seems as though I may have gotten to the problem(s). I guess that when I rebuilt the carb, I never paid really close attention to a tiny hole coming from the vicinity of the power piston. As a result I never noticed that it was dirty and not allowing any fuel to be pumped in for start up. So after some really close observation, I was able to identify and clean that little port. I thought that I was done. So I rebuilt the carb again and reistalled it back on the intake. It started up instantly!! I allowed it to warm up and made some adjustments to idle and air fuel mixture and got it running pretty well. I took it out for a drive around town and was surprised that it ran so well. I got back home and relaxed the rest of the day. Later that evening, feeling really good because the carb problem had been all resolved, I tried to start the truck again. Well the carb was not quite done with me. It turns out that the carb was flooding all over the intake and exhaust. After sleeping on what had happened, I took the rochester apart for what was probably the 10th time in a week. After close observation and measuring the float drop, checking for debris that could have made the carb flood, I was at a loss. Then I grabbed the float and placed it in the full fuel bowl to see if maybe it was sticking somewhere on the sides. I got it!! One of the floats had a tiny hole and had filled with fuel, so it sank down to the bottom of the fuel bowl, so of coarse the valve was going to continue to think that there was no fuel in the fuel bowl. After replacing the float with another float from one of my other donors, I rebuilt the rochester again. I installed it back on the intake and it started right up and no longer flooded!!!!! Victory was mine!! Anyway, thanks to everyone that took the time to post a reply, I am pretty sure that this will not be the last time that I ask for help.
