Take the carb off and put it in the smallest bucket that it just barely fits into that will cover it completely, then fill the bucket Gumout carb cleaner, not the spray stuff, but rather the pour stuff that comes in pint cans that covers the carb completely. Swish it around to make sure that it filled around the float as well because the pivots on the float that hang it from its horizontal rod (mounting) are no doubt gummed up to, and can or will cause the float to stick eventually, causing the gasoline to overflow out the vent on top of the carb. Let it set a few minutes, swish it around to get the cleaner flowing past the jets, through venturies, clean orifaces. Lift it out, turn it upside down so crap empties out the bowl vent as well as create a rinsing flow past the jets, venturies, orifaces, dunk it again. Do that a few times. That should set you up pretty good on the carb. Store the carb cleaner in a glass jar like "Ball" for canning to use at a later date.
Might have crap inside the distributor cap as well. Terminals to the plug wires might be corroded where the rotor passes. Vacuum hoses dry rotted, need to be replaced. Be careful of the valve train too. Valves have been seated, some left open, valve stems might be rusty and trying to pass through tight guides and might tear up the seals above the guides. When you get it running, don't race it. When you wake up in the morning, you don't bend over with your eyes still half shut, put on a pair of running shoes and sprint down the road do you? Get it running good, let it idle awhile, ease into it. The 318 is a simple, durable engine that has been around as long as some of us have been alive, longer to others.
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