<VV> Carb update

[Stephen Upham]

Drove the car to work again even though the carb was still dripping.   
It was racing like the idle had been stepped up and was going 40  
without any throttle being applied.  I suddenly remembered that I had  
forgot to attach the pump rod on the back side of the right carb.  It  
wasn't that much fun to try to reattach it in a parking lot over a  
warm engine dressed for work in 90 degree weather.  It then acted  
like it wanted to die in idle, but I didn't have time to try to  
adjust the idle screws as I was would have been late(r) to work, so I  
just switched it to "N" at the stop lights and continued to on.
After work, I started the car and took off the air filter.  It was  
still dripping gas on the right carb.  Since it was still idling low,  
I advanced the idle equally on the left and right until I got a speed  
that I thought would work.  I set the mixture screw in about 1 1/2  
turns on the right (leaking carb) until it started to starve and then  
adjusted it back out until it sounded like it was running well enough  
to travel.  I went to pick up the kids - three blocks - and then  
returned home.  It ran ok, and although it has a very slight rock to  
it in idle and the exhaust note wasn't smooth, it didn't seem like it  
wanted to die.  When I got in the garage at home, I checked the  
carb.  It wasn't leaking!   I'm afraid to do any more adjustments to  
it because the last time I did, it started to leak again.  I would  
really like to know what is happening.  How can it leak, then stop,  
then leak, then stop all by adjusting screws (idle and mixture) that  
should not have an effect on this symptom (the leaking venturi)?    
All that I did besides that was to drive it.

Stephen