The rebuild kit should have included a paper with all the various adjustment specifications for all the carb #'s the kit fits. Look up your carb # (located on the driver side of the carb ... starts with a 170) on that paper and it'll give you all the settings for float height, choke adjustment, and such.
The paper was included with the kit but it was hard to understand. I still have it and will give it another shot. If I come up short I'll post my problems.
I assume you're meaning the
idle mixture screws are 2 1/2 turns out since the
jets are inside the carb and have a fixed size orifice. If that's the case, 2 1/2 turns should be enough to get the engine to start & run but might need some fine-tuning for a good idle. Adjusting these won't change the way the engine runs at higher speeds though.
That's exactly what I'm talking about. I'm guessing one is for air and the other is for fuel? Passenger would be fuel and driver side would be air?
Not sure what you're referring to here ... Idle speed screw over on the driver side of the carb?
I was told not to mess with that screw on the drivers side but if I wanted to mess with the idle I could turn the screw on the top of the carb, dead center in front of the buttlerflies.
Yes, the choke should be pretty much straight up & down when it's fully opened.
I'm thinking I didn't set the choke right and will work on that first.
There's a good carburetor troubleshooting chart at:
http://www.recarbco.com/technical/newtrouble.html that you might find helpful.