vacuum gauge to solve idle issue

No time to work on it today. Our granddaughter turned 2 so it was party time!
I will try to get to it this week.
Engine is 273 4bl. Timing was set before but could use tweaking.
Cant set initial dead nuts unless I can get it to idle.

Thanks all!

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