Still hesitates off throttle...

this right here tells the story.
If your vacuum advance-can is seeing 15inches at full throttle. my guess is that you have somehow found a venturi-vacuum source, cuz this is MORE vacuum than is in the intake manifold itself .............. at full throttle.IMO, this can't possibly be right.
He's talking in the driveway in park/neutral, raising it, then winging it. That would be close to on the nuggets.