Found plugs to have alot of carbon, but suspect that was from the period where I was waiting for a choke cable, and was starting the truck and jumping out to manually take the choke off.
I reset all on timing. Starts good, runs good with no backfire. Still feel it misses a little at higher rpms, but might just need to get it out and drive it a little (somebody following of course).
Tom, I ran it at 2000 rpm for about 15 minutes. After the looks I got from a few of my neighbors I decided that was about as good as I could get!
I do get more vacuum when I advance the timing some. Up to about 17. It fluctuates a little at idle..only about 1" (16-17).