THe timing on these things can be picky. Maybe its just not getting good combustion. Time it by ear. Advance till you get pinging under load. Then back it off a touch.
I've been doing it for years (ever since I drove off with a timing light still on the rear bumper of a bug I was working on noticed it the second it pulled off my plug wire). Seems to be the best way to get decent performance out of an older vehicle on new gas.
It may have crud in it.. or have worn needle seats. In my experience crud always made it run lean. On my last VW I would constantly have to rev it up and put my hand on the top of the carby sucking all the fuel out the top to clear the little ethanol junk that seems to build up in these things. Ended up running one of my jets loose just to let junk get by it.
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