Goodwrench crate engine smoking from passenger side exhaust

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The plugs look like that prior to me touching anything. I replaced intake gaskets when I put the new pushrod in. How do I verify that? I don’t need this engine to be perfect yet, but just need to make sure it’s worth putting effort into. The carb is absolutely flooding out currently. Fuel dripping off the plugs.
 

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The plugs look like that prior to me touching anything. I replaced intake gaskets when I put the new pushrod in. How do I verify that? I don’t need this engine to be perfect yet, but just need to make sure it’s worth putting effort into. The carb is absolutely flooding out currently. Fuel dripping off the plugs.
1. Get new plugs
2. I would get a basic rebuild kit or just a airhorn gasket and needle/seat.

I would bet the float needle is stuck open and is leaking.

First thing would be to get new plugs, gapped correctly. Then set the timing correctly and the idle mixture screws. If the timing is off and everything is all out of whack because you had a bad pushrod and odd sparkplugs, so you had to give it enough idle screw for the throttle blades to be open past the idle circuit, it will idle super bad and pig rich like that. Maybe give the side of the carb a decent whack with a rubber mallet too.. maybe if it's a stuck float it will knock it loose.
 

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I bought the truck because it was flooding out and dying. I fixed the pushrod issue and the timing is off I can’t get it to idle long enough to set timing. I know the base gasket is a vacuum leak but I’ve got different carbs I can throw on to get it running better
 

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Well took carb apart cleaned a lot of gunk out put it back together truck fires right up idles revs up but still rich, this quadrajet has the little tabs instead of screws for adjusting. Passenger side also still smoking
 

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It may of already washed out the rings, How many years has it been running flooded?
 

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Truck was apparently parked for the reason of flooding. I never did get it fixed I traded the truck off for a one owner k10 and a k20 frame, then traded the k10 for an 82 gmc c30, then traded the one ton for the 83 K5 blazer I still have lol
 

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