Infotraker, when you are getting the bases and the bodies put on in the right direction, make sure you have the right base gaskets; in the carb kit you will be given an assortment of those gaskets, don't match up what came off of it. Someone could have put the wrong one on at the last teardown, it always pays to match the gasket to the base and body to assure all the passages are open. Just an idea.
STEVE