Your description is a little foggy, and you've got us guessing, but here's
a little input:
- If your distributer solenoid has two ports, the one on the 'nose' goes
to the 'Spark Port' on the carburator that is above your butterflys. On
a Holley, that port is halfway up the front metering block.
The one on the side of the distributer goes to manifold vacum, which
could be on the botom of the carb, or somewhere on the manifold.
- I think the gaget on the thermostat housing you are refering to is a
temperature actuated switch that gets in the way of the two lines above
to give you more vacume advance (to get higher idle) when the engine
is cold. If you have converted to manual choke, you probably don't
need this anymore.
If you want to keep it, and no one has come up with an answer by the
end of the day, I can look up the proper line routing tonight.