You are kind of right. Accelerator pump isnt working, I took the carb apart and dipped it. It is completely blocked and signs of water setting in the bottom. The pump was destroyed when I took it apart this time. It is a Nikki side draft. I havent been able to locate a rebuild for it yet.
And the engine is a UA , evidently the VA uses a side valve cover and the UA doesn't. I did a leak down test again after putting transmission fluid in the holes over night. It failed miserably. So I pulled the head and found carbon heavily built up in the head and on cylinders. Someone drove it a while with this carb loading it up. Intake and exhaust ports were blocked down to the size of a nickle. So I figure ill go a oil pump and rings ,valve job,cylinder walls look good. But I will fail if I cannot find the carb or a rebuild kit. Any ideas where to look?