LD340 Can’t Get The Carb Base To Seal

ohchit; I screwed up on the clamps, I edited the post.

As to the rest;
Just because the factory did this or that doesn't guarantee it was the right,or the best, or the whatever, way to do a thing. A lot of the time, the things the factory did, were in the interest of expediency, and/or low-cost.
I just said I wasn't a fan of certain things I saw.
I did not say it was right or wrong. Nor did I say OP should change anything. And I made a helpful suggestion.

I get that I messed up on the clamps, but why jump on me for stating an opinion? Which clearly was justified when I mentioned the spring clamps..
Some of you guys still believe in a spherical Earth; That's your opinion, and I don't ream you a new one for it.
And I really resent the use of the word "dude", but it's your opinion to bandy about words, and I'll not club you over the head about it, you probably have lots words in your vocabulary, that you use, not knowing the misinformation they might carry.
If you guys want to hate something; hate abortion. Hate effeminism. Hate fornication.Hate the systematic dismantlement of your society. There are lots of much bigger things to hate, than a guy just trying to help..

No offense taken by me, I actually appreciate the information, I am planning on properly separating the plug wires, I just have them tied up temporarily to keep them up off of the left exhaust manifold while I try and sort out some of the other stuff going on.
This car is doing its best to kick my ***, it’s like 1 step forward and 2 steps back.
I try and keep in mind that the car has sat for over 20 years (10 in my possession) as a stripped out pile of parts with no engine or transmission and I really have zero back history on it, so who knows what the hell’s been done to it in the past.
I’m also fighting a power steering problem that I’m going to start another post about, we’ll see how that goes. lol