[Grumpy old man]

DUDE , and I mean this in a nice way , toss that carb you killed it . That's a huge vacuum leak , and the pretty chrome and glass fuel filter is the absolute worst filter ever made ,Toss that in the trash along with the carb and get a plain old steel filter ! Before your standing back and watching it go up in flames !! Take all the performance books and threads you've been reading and toss those too !! Back it all down and drive the truck . Your tossing $100.00 bills at it weekly and getting no where . Carbs don't have to torqued down that hard . And trying to get that engine where you want to be isn't going to happen .enjoy it for what it is ,don't drive yourself INSANE trying to make it something it's not . Hug the kid and take your girl out for dinner and walk away from it for a few days .

And dump that carb spacer and get studs and a phenolic spacer .