babsboat
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Last week I did my (first ever) rebuild on my holley 2-B Carb. Today I did the first startup after installation. After the fuel bowl was filled it started right up. The electric choke was set and functioning properly. my tension spring at the fuel bowl was gapped appropriately. The only thing out of the ordinary was that I did have to increase the idle screw 1 1/2 turns to keep the engine running while I tried to adjust the two mixture screws. To do adjust the mixture screws, I attached a vacumn gauge to the pcv hose to adjust for highest stable vacumn reading. My intention was to do a rough setup here to stabilze the idle so that I could check and adjust the timing. I shut the engine off and did a restart - it fired right up. I proceeded to check the timing with my shunt tool (the proper way as instructed in this forum) and timing light. I noticed that my timing was retarded approximately 1/2" behind TDC. Because of the timing mode slowing the engine down, the engine sputtered out before I could feed it more gas. The shunt was unplugged, I lightly loosened the clamp bolt on the distributor, and I attempted to restart the engine to perform the advancement on the timing and now the engine will not fire up....at all. I was careful about not starting the engine with the shunt tool connected to B+, so I don't believe that is the issue. The carb was not flooded with fuel. Any suggestions?