At my wit's end

Electronic ignition components wont be here until tomorrow but figured I'd drill out that bolt for the choke and fix everything else. Got it all done and put together and went to turn it over. It ran like crap initially so I got out to tune the carb and saw fuel shooting everywhere. It was leaking from the fuel line inlet, bottom of the fuel bowl, and shooting out the top. Tightened the bolts and tried it again. Kept shooting out the top and realized that the float wasn't set right. Pulled the bowl cover off (really stupid design) and adjusted the float. Turned the car back over and it idled pretty good.

I let the car idle while I waited for my wife to get home so we could take it for a test drive. After a few minutes I cut the engine. She finally got home and I showed her that it was running again. Took a bit of effort to get it to turn over for some reason and then it idled a bit fast. I tweaked the idle screws a little to get it to lower a bit. I forgot that I needed a couple of retainer clips to hold some of the rods on so we went to the parts store and grabbed some dinner. Came home and put the retainer clips on and tried to turn it over. Again it took some effort to turn it over but it finally did then started idling weird. Turned it off and looked at the engine and saw fuel on the intake. I took the air cleaner off and tried starting it again and saw fuel was again shooting all over the place. Apparently the float needs adjusting again. It was getting dark so I decided it could wait until tomorrow after I get the HEI stuff put in.