On the topic of being lean, when I installed this carb a few years ago it was New in the box. Truck would pop out the carb if you needed to hit the gas in a hurry. At the time it was just a daily driver to work and back home. Really ran well on the road. So I found some old Junk core TQ's that my dad had from back in the day. I installed 98's in the front, 137 in the rear and the 2024 rods. (.066 .054 .040) This took care of the popping. Carb came with 95, 125, and 2110 rods. (.069 .061 .040)

I just pick that out from one of the carbs because it's what i had that seemed bigger.... What would be a good base jetting to start with? This seems like it should be in the ballpark.