New carb issues

Secondly, does your linkage and everything clear the air cleaner?
OOh, good call! The drop base air cleaners are clocked, meaning there are strategic cutouts down there to clear choke and throttle linkage. Perhaps a kill switch is in your future. Wire it off your coil - and run it to ground. when its "killed" (closed), the negative coil side is dragged to ground and will no longer fire the plugs. Piece of mind.....