LA 318 Dying when put in gear and high idle issue solved!

Randall Hendricks said
The only and I mean ONLY thing that I had done this time that I had previously never done was set the gap on my distributor super SUPER close. Hours and hours and hours and hours wasted.

AND
monkey'd with the timing, which
AUTOMATICALLY
leads to changes in the curb idle screw.
Those two are married like Sonny and Cher.