On the advise of some people om this forum I contacted Cliff at Cliff's High Performance. Since he lives about 90 minutes I drove down there this morning. All I can say is WOW. He showed me where the linkage prevents the secondaries from opening and he adjusted them to allow a full range of operation. He then proceeded to rebuild pretty much the entire carb while I watched. Cliff really knows the Quadrajet and is a super nice man. He tells me he has a backlogof quadrjets for about 6 months and by the amount of carbs there I can believe it. Anyways the linkage, and thr entire carb for that matter, have been redone.