Thermoquad idling issues

This is a manual disc brake car. The metering rods looked like they were “bouncing” a little bit when I did get it to idle.
I will pull the carb and check the gasket and set the transfer slots.
If I currently set transfer slots like you say and back the timing off, this thing will not idle at all unless the Choke is manipulated partially closed. Something has to be plugged or way off on just the idle circuit.
I feel like I should probably buy a gasket kit and pull the carb apart and check floats and blow out all the passages.