Thanks to everyone for all the feedback. I took the cam belt cover off this AM and did the cam alignment using the 3/16 pins and with the crankshaft properly aligned via the arrows. Really struggled to get the belt back on and thought it looked good…although I had to remove the right side (marked F) pulley to get the belt on. I’m pretty sure I must have misaligned it again just a small amount. Once I had it back together I tried to start and it fired once again just once each time I tried and then died. When it fired it felt as though it was not at the same time as it did yesterday…slightly later. I am still fairly certain this is still where the problem lies.
I am pretty tired of struggling with this fun but hard to keep up vehicle. There is a dealer about 120 miles away in Santa Monica CA who I have spoken to before. He only has a mechanic 3 days a week and has outright told me he cares little for doing maintenance as he is really only interested in selling vehicles….yes he said that on the phone to me right after I purchased it when I inquired about bringing it in for a look over by his mechanic. I just need to get it running again so I am guessing I may have to use him to do that, but I’m going to try once more to redo the cam belt installation to see if I can get it right.
I had no problem removing and reinstalling the oil seal in the Bevel Box and replacing the Clutch Master Cylinder but I really regret touching the cam belt setup when I replaced the rollers with Phil’s better designed SKF bearing version.
Once again thanks to all for your replies to my problem posts! The community here on the forums is full of super helpful people!
