Update: I blocked off the PCV port with a vacuum plug, no change to speak of doing that. Started playing with step up springs from the strip kit. I went down to orange spring and it cleaned up the idle a nice little bit. I tried to yellow, the next lowest rated spring and the idle got a little worse from the orange. I went back to the orange spring and idle is back to be better than it was but I still feel there is some tuning left in it. I raised the idle speed and a little better yet even. I left the timing at 20 deg. I cant say for sure how the part throttle cruise is or more performance spirited driving is with the spring change but I'll exercise it on Saturday and report back. Overall, I feel progress was made.

Peabody: I have sprayed around the carb base and is well sealed. When I rebuilt the carb a replaced the thick spacer gasket.