just cant get the car to run right

"Does not have EGR"

YOU CAN NOT TELL without pulling the carburetor

If you have an intake manifold off one of the earlier years when EGR first came out, there IS NO VISIBLE EGR valve. The EGR is simply two "jets" in the bottom of the intake manifold, "leaking" exhaust from the crossover passage below. a couple of screenshots from the '72 shop manual emissions section: