Holley carb trouble...and answer.

[Myself]

My wife's truck engine had water in the oil when I started it up, so I had to redo intake gaskets. Anyway it was apart for 1 day only. I fired it again last night and it just wouldn't run right. HUGE amounts of fuel flooding the primary bores!! I checked the float adjustment, O.K.. So I'm like WTF it was just running fine, except for the water in the oil. I even almost shut the fuel off, same thing. Then when my wife quit cranking the engine, it continued to pour the fuel in, again WTF?? Well, something is wrong so I took the carb back off and took off the front bowl and metering plate. Everything looked O.K. Then I looked at the carb body, FRESH MUD plugging the vent tube!! In 1 day the damn dirt dobbers found, and blocked the vent tube!! That caused me a whole evening of grief. Just something I never would have suspected, and thought I would share.