Another carb help...

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aside from mismatched timing marks and pointer, OP had a not stock, but perfectly fine, Edelbrock carb with non-stock, cut, fuel line feeding it that had a soft fuel line to filter than to carb that was sketchy and leaked.

A more secure fuel line routing and part specific to OP's carb was shown to eliminate his fire starter setup

OP did not have a "stock" setup where a pre-bent hard line went from FP to carb.....so a better fuel line and filter was suggested to OP for "his" current setup.