Thanks to all of you, Eaglefreek; I was on that site after I was on here, almost as much info on there as there is on here!!
Going to get into checking it out as soon as it warms up outside, may have to pull the valve cover and make sure that reed valve is free, no biggy, I 've got one of those reusable Fel-Pro gaskets ($40.00), but well worth it. They should work on the 258's too.
Got it fixed, found the fitting that goes into thr manifold plugged, ererything else was open, but I cleaned it all up anyhow just to make sure. Amazing what years of neglect can do. It's running fine now. Thanks for all the help.