Yup, at that point I would let them know I would be finding a new auto parts store. That dudes an idiot.
The year before my great aunt gave me her Belair, she put 300 miles on it. Insurance on it cosg her $1 a mileSkeets, I had the same challenge trying to get the little primer bulb for a similar engine. I was in the store that has a repair department so I went over there and the wouldn't even try until I had an engine number. I asked them how many sizes do you have? They don't know.
That is why Amazon has grow so big. People don't have to talk to another person who doesn't give a crap about service.
My neighbor traded in a '72 Ranchero in '76 with 12,000 miles on it. I told him he'd be better off calling a cab driving 4K miles a year. You're not far ahead of that!
Kind of like doing rear emergency brake shoes and hardware on the back of a fiat (Ram) 1500 in the dark, days before we where suppossed to take it on a trip. Factory wants you to pull the axle shafts but the interwebs swears you can do it with them in.... you can, but you better put all the guns hammers and other destructive tools away. ecause your gonna lose a few years of patience before you get it done ask me how I know. I was within millimeters of giving up and running it without e brakes for the trip but nys requires e brakes for their inspection so it was either then or by the end of that month I bit the bullet instead of aiming it where I wanted to, and got it done wothout pulling the axles and without a lift. Hope I never have to do it again becuase it's almost (almost) worth paying someone to do itdang 7 HOURS??? you got some patience ! I'd have launched it and emptied all 5 deer slugs before it dropped......
nails were a good idea though the 'proper' tools are long Metric threaded bolts, heads cut off with a slight deburring....
now that you know, please tear the carb off, jumble up the 5-8 spacers and gaskets and start all over.
BTW , welcome to the Skool of hard knocks !!!
