Thank you all, but we finally discovered the problem. We replaced the pickup coil/signal generator (not the regular coil) and she started right up. But I still need some help. After running for a couple minute's it's idling at almost 3K rpm. We stopped her, let it sit for a while to cool down, and after starting again it continued to idle at about the same, w/o warming up. It seemed as if the RPM's even began to pickup some, so we killed the motor. The idle doesn't seem rough really, just really, really high. The idle was crap at first, but that seemed to go away on it's own. We tried disengaging the automatic choke, assuming that was the problem, like we've done before, but the rpm's never drop.

The only thing we can think of, is that in trying to find the problem, the wire for the "thermo switch #2" (according to Hayne's repair manual) came off the switch itself. I tried jerry rigging it in the "port" with a but clip but it still didn't seem to effect the high idle.

My Father and I had our heads in the engine compartment, so our noses were immune to gas fumes, but when it started my mother reported that it smelled really, really rich, but that was when it first started with the crap idle, which has gone away now.

It's just idling really..... really....... high.

Our best guess is that that thermo switch is what disengages the automatic choke via temperature, and my redneck wiring didn't work, and the ECU is not getting the message to kill the choke.

Again, thanks for all the help.