[bfinley]

Hi, and thanks for the answers. Something is definitely slipping my mind here about how to lower the idle, but I thought I'd say I've tried all of those things.

They are pretty much part of the rebuild and set up process.

The idle has always been rock steady, and a good 900 rpm. It has been the best part of the whole carb setup since I got the car! Other parts (accell/decell were popping spitting backfire hesitation when I first got it).

But, despite having those problems until the other day, the idle was not one of those problems. I had some room left on the idle stop screws (is this right?) that contact the plates at the very back end of the whole throttle linkage, but now there is free space and the plate won't touch the screw.

I have had the longest part of the linkage off (the part that goes forward to the firewall nearly) and have it properly lengthened/sized. I have popped off the two short linkage arms at the rear of the carb set up, and they are also not holding the idle up (when doing the carb setup you take these off to balance the carbs and get the car at 900).

But now the said screws are not touching, even with all THREE pieces of the linkage off an laying there (they pop off with an 8 mm wrench), the car runs at 1200 or so.

And the only way that I know to lower the idle rpm is to back out those rearmost screws that normally touch the plates. But they don't now touch the plates.

So I just think I'm forgetting something... like the throttle plates (or butterflies?) were never correct in step one? The accell pumps are pumping too much? They weren't?

I'm sure this is just the onset of memory loss. What am I totally overlooking?