LD340 Can’t Get The Carb Base To Seal

The symptoms are, fast, rough idle, dies when idled down,

Why is your PCV port capped? per post #1,pic#1
This leads to the engine not getting enough idle-air bypass.
In compensation you have to increase the air going past the throttles. This puts them too far up the transfer slots, making it run both too fast and too rich. In compensation you close the mixture screws, and retard the timing.
Did you mean to do that?