forsure! thanks for your help man...we will see tomrrow morning...im pretty sure that is the problem because when i manualy pulled that thing in so it wasnt touching the throttle linkage it started fine...so tomrrow on cold start ill see where its at....I aslo have a question about this filter tube thing that sits out infront of the carb which runs to pvc valve and off the carb in 3 places...i wanna eliminate it cuz i dont have any emmisions stuff on the car....ill try to post a photo of it....and ill update on the carb tomrrow