the Ranchero disaster & Brand X update

Almost three months since update on this journey so time to fill in some blanks.

radiator stuff all mocked up, everything fits 'cept a screw that holds the lines for the condenser was poking the rad tank on that side, a little grinding with the 'death wheel' and space made just need to clean up that shroud and puke tank and screw it back together. Of course that was before the holidays Got side tracked by you-know-who to put together wooden thingies she seen on pintrest or some craft site. oh,well got through the holidays alive and back at car/truck things.
Got fed up with that POS carb on Brand X, I hoped to get one on sale but they were out-of-stock for a while, finally got one a couple weeks ago, here's what a 70 year old 'atomizer' looks like:

swap a few parts over to the 'new' old one and ready to install right? Yeah, scope creep strikes again!!
Enter the oil puddle-in-the-intake manifold mystery.

WTF?? this is a pretty tight little engine in this truck so what is going on??
A little head scratching and some visual investigation I found it was coming from the PCV that I installed to get rid for that oil leak called a flow tube, if you don't know what one is, I can explain it but honestly just Googlefu it. What I found is the valve, where I stuck it was too close to the block sides and is vacuuming up oil being slung around the crank case/oil pan, sooo i need to figure out what to do. I think I have an idea after remembering some pics of other PCV swaps on old junk. Funny how I can remember that stuff but not yesterday's lunch anyway (he says in his best Ellen DeGeneres voice) gotta pull the intake/exhaust manifold cause the gasket is oil soaked, I went through a tote box full of crap that came with the truck and found a gasket set I can use a penny saved is a penny after all Found some things ya'll might be interested to see......MORE OLD CRAP!!!

not necessarily the contents but the names on the box. I remember those brands from when I was a kid and the local NAPA store was the only parts house besides the stealership you could get automotive parts from, blast from the past eah?
I'll be back later, I gotta find a carb insulator cause the one on the truck is cracked, OH, found a 'new/old' water pump in that box of junk, still need to get a new radiator and look at the condition of the distributor one of these days, you may find the vac advance kinda comical on these old engines, I'll post that here too if y'all are interested, if not, too bad, my thread, my stuff, I rule
You can always turn the 'channel' or whatever they call it in the 'eitherworld'.