Carb Help!!!

Did you put the 1/2 pipe plug back in the rear? Fuel pressure will cause it to idle then gurgle, cough and die with gas fumes everywhere. Turn both mixture screws all the way in, then out 1 turn. The idle screw should be just touching the throttle, forget the choke for now. Get it started and feather the throttle so it warms up, then start messing with the idle screw and mixture screws. An edelbrock can almost idle with the top off if you could hold the rods in the jets. Also check your floats, weigh them and see if you got a sinker. rotate rod covers to side and see if the rods stay sunk at idle, shouldnt bounce. Get yourself a vacuum guage and a tach and a partner to read it. Set to idle and then adjust mixture screws until the vacuum climbs, lower idle back to where it was with idle speed screw and continue to adjust to get highest vacuum at SAME idle. Carters are pretty easy to get set up. But they did make over 500 variations and like thousands of rod variations for the AFB.