I finally have my issues fixed thanks to being laid off and without a job for a month haha.

The car forever has had a really hard time starting when hot. Sometimes wouldn't crank at all. I put in a high torque starter, larger battery, and larger battery cables and that's fixed.

There were a number of driveability issues. It would take a long time to start. It had a vibration when accelerating onto the freeway. It idle'd rough. The engine would box down and nearly die when accelerating away from a stop. From a cold start it would usually die and need to be restarted again.

I found quite a few issues when I took apart everything. I pulled off the intake and rebuilt the carb again. I had originally done that in like 2006 with the help of Cliff Ruggles book. Well I bought the Doug Roe book and have been just reading those over and over the past few weeks.

Here are the issues I found:
-distributor vacuum advance canister was leaking
-carb accelerator pump was not working at all since the seal had fallen off
-accelerator pump check ball was not sealing well
-main fuel metering rods were stuck in the full lean position! There's a little metal twisty thing that holds them to the hanger which was bent and being pushed down by the air horn when bolted together. This pushed the jets fully down all the time. I think the vibration I felt was actually knock due to being lean
-the throttle body plate was missing holes drilled for fixed idle air bypass because that was a mismatched part I got from a local carb shop many years ago since my original throttle body had stripped out idle screw threads
-the choke pull-off vacuum diaphram was leaking
-hot idle compensator was leaking open all the time I think


I rebuilt the carb and fixed all those things. Had to get parts from a few sources to get through it. Finished assembly yesterday and just got back from driving and it's all better!

The car actually drives with confidence which is new. I bet someone other than me could even start and drive it, lol. Pretty easy to squeel those tires now