crunchyskippy

Today the weather was warm enough in Virginia to allow me to install my 2150 I recently rebuilt. To my surprise, she fired right up after the 3rd crank! Unfortunately I ran out of daylight before I could make any adjustments (mixture screws or check of the "wet" float level). It wasn't idleing very smoothly after warming up.

Which brings me to my question: Should I go ahead and all my plugs and check my point gapping before I start tinkering with the idle mixture screws? Also, would this be a good time for me to get a timing light (and learn how to use one)?

If it helps at all, it ran pretty well before my carb rebuild. I started down that path due to a gas leak from the accelerator pump gasket...

Thanks in advance.

Soaring

If it was running fine before the carb rebuild, so I would tune the carb first. Check your float level, then dink with the mixture screws. Turn then all the way in, then back out about 2 or so turns. Start the car and slowly screw them out 1/2 turn at a time until the engine smooths out at idle.