I'll have to look again for the links, I remembered reading them but don't know why for the life of me I didn't bookmark them then. Yeah it's way rich; my thought is that the spark plug isn't firing strong enough but Dude thinks it's just a fuel mixture problem - likely a little of both. I want to work on the electrical first but he seems determined to plunge into the (clean, we checked) carb and who am I to turn away free help? ;-)

I have another question though: where on my '71 is the rectifier? Does it even have one?