Bad Timing for Carburetor Troubles

This past weekend, we moved to a new house.  I'd driven the Mustang a few weeks prior so driving it over to the new house seemed like the easiest part of the process.  The Mustang was a little tough to start but I got it going and out of the driveway.  However, once I started to drive down the road, it seemed to stumble and required quite a bit of gas to keep running.  It then almost died at the end of the street when I went to turn.  When I stopped at the next stop sign, the car died and would not restart.

I lifted the hood and started thinking of what might be wrong.  I looked down the carb and moved the throttle linkage.  I noticed the accelerator pump nozzle wasn't squirting out any gas.  I walked back to the house, got a gas can, and put a little down the carb and tried to start it.  It started immediately but then seemed to hesitate when I attempted to take off.  If I didn't press the gas, it would idle no problem so it just seemed to be the accelerator pump.

I decided to drive it over and just give it quite a bit of gas when accelerating and planned to just go a route that would not require many stops.  I made it to the new house with this approach.  Once at the new house, I checked again and the accelerator pump nozzle still wasn't working.  Content that I knew what was wrong, I started working on moving everything else.

Cutting and Reinstalling Lowering Blocks

I'll be moving in a few months so I wanted to go ahead and put back in the lowering blocks before I lost them in the move.  Instead of just installing them, I thought I'd try to cut one of them so that I could get the Mustang to sit level in the back.  This is certainly not recommended but I figured it was work an experiment.

Before starting, I measured and the rear passenger side was at 26 1/2" and the driver side was at 26 3/8".

The stub which sticks up on the leaf spring is .35 tall.  This is important as the hole in the spacer is only .6 deep.  This gives me an idea of how much I could remove from the spacer without the leaf spring stud bottoming out in the spacer. 

I cut the lowering block down from 1.007 to 80.  The cut wasn't great so I'd like to do it better later if this ultimately ends up working out.  

Once I put it all back together and it is currently at 26" on both sides.  This leveled everything out but one side bumper (driver) is about 1/8" lower.  I'll have to work on this some more as some of this is related to the suspension and some is related to the bumper itself.  For now, I'm going to post the detail so I don't forget it.