Won’t start

Joel Chapman said
...when I rocked the car I could hear it sloshing around but wasn’t coming out the hole yet on the front bowl. Will try the light tho.

No need to look further. Unless I've misunderstood, its siphoned though the boosters or leaked down after this

Joel Chapman said
Then I removed the ignition from the distributor to crank it and fill up the Bowls and before I could count to ten I had fuel coming out the vents tubes up top.

So the needle valve wasn't shutting the fuel off even when overflowing.

That would also goes along with the fact it was almost starting when the throttle was held open.

Joel Chapman said
So I adjust that lever because there was way more than .015 in play at wide open.

Those instruction have confused everyone forever.
Here's the deal. The spring adjuster should be just touching the pump lever at slow idle.
Then, when at wide open throttle the lever should have enough play in it when pushed further that a .015" feeler gage can be slipped in. The purpose is to be confident its not bottoming out the pump diaphram under normal operation. Even if it is bottoming out, the spring has, or should have, some give in it; so its not the end of the world.