Thanks Hondaracinaldo. I have a weber with electric choke. Gotta figure out how to hook it up when I get to that point.
How concerned should I be about stuff falling in my cylinders during cleaning? Mostly pb blaster, blue shop towels, and elbow grease. I did use the shop vac to vacuum them out when I was finished as well as set all my Pistons at half stroke before cleaning. Should I pour some oil in the top of each cylinder and let it run down to clean the rings?
I don’t think I’m gonna get started rebuilding it since I got called in today. There’s too much to clean and if I’m not going to fully rebuild it, I at least have to clean it right. I’ll post current progress pics. Rushing makes mistakes.
I also need to get a few things like spark plugs and oil still. My machinist highly recommend a copper gasket spray to coat my head gasket. I read thats old technology. What are you guys using now.
Stupid Question: Where does the vacuum originate from? My valve cover?

Do I have to pull the crank pulley to get the lower timing belt cover off? It looks like Im leaking a ton of oil around the timing belt

Been crazy busy with work. Slowly cleaning up my engine and bay. A lot of my previous questions I still need answers to. Sorry this is all new to me.
Yesterday I came home to my parts all over the house and the boxes destroyed thanks to my dog. Guess she’s rushing me lol
Good news is I finally got an extension long enough to get leverage on the crankshaft pulley and got it off. I discovered why the car died. My timing belt doubled up on itself and the cs and seized. Also I have 60 hours this week and all my bills are paid. 👍 should be about a grand worth of car money after taxes. Stoked!
Heres the pics I took of cleaning progress. Pics don’t exactly do justice. You need to see it in person or compare it to the old photos to appreciate it because it still a 40-year-old car.

Everything is back together with the weber carb. I hooked up brake booster and timing advance and deleted everything else. Hooked a switched 12v to the electric choke.
Car will not start. I think timing is off. I made sure cylinder 1 was at TDC and my lines on my camshaft lined up with the notch facing up when I put the head on. I followed the honda shop manual so I think its right.
The problem is when I torqued the crankshaft pulley it turned the engine.
Now I have no idea where TDC is.
I lined up the dizzy marks and put the cap on and nothing... help plz
How do I find TDC without taking the car back apart?

I lined up TDC on the block and the TDC marks on my head before I put the belt on and tightened it down. THEN, I rotated the engine by accident torquing the crank pulley. That means my head and block are still in time, but not TDC? Is this right?
I need to find TDC again, line up my dizzy rotor to TDC, and replace the cap?
I turned the car over alot already trying to start it. Not constant but a few cranks, pull the dizzy, rotate the engine a little, replace, repeat.
I managed to start the car but it was running really rough so I turned it off to try to get it better and then I couldn’t get it to start again.
I gave up after I got a “backfire” in my carburetor.
I also rotated the motor clockwise at some point during working on it and I saw that the motor is only supposed to rotate counterclockwise. does that matter? I’m pretty sure everything was in line back up when I bolted back together and put the timing belt on. How bad did I mess it up by starting it over and over?

What do you mean interference engines?
Make sure I dont do this a third time..
Pull the valve cover
Remove timing belt off cam gear
Set block back to TDC with screwdriver in spark hole
Set cam gear back to TDC (align marks with cylinder head with notch facing up)
Reinstall timing belt
Adjust tensioner
Set Dizzy timing
Install dizzy
Install cap
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Start car

I dont quite understand why I cant rotate the whole assembly if they were in sync when I put the belt on

Fack!!! So basically a good chance I bent a valve or fucked up a piston?Now I need to strip it to the head again to inspect everything?!
If I had them in sync when I mated them, how could they interfere with one another?
My block and head are in time but my firing order is off. Am I thinking about this wrong?
Block and head were at TDC when I put in the timing belt. Unless the belt slipped, how did it get out of time? Its just not TDC but both the head and block are the same degree off tdc. In time with each other but out of time with firing

Fingers crossed.
Want a third one? Lol

Got it started today. Took it to the gas station and put air in the tires. It seemed to be bogged down like the power wasnt making it to the tranny. It was also Idling high. I noticed my heater hose delete cap flew off on the ride. I went to the parts house and got a new cap. I installed it and adjusted my idle and air mixture on tge carb and let it idle. The fans were cycling and the engine was idling at temp. I took it for a second test drive. Again it felt bogged down. Almost flooded when you step on it. The engine gets loud but no movement at the wheels. I got it up to 45 and the temp started rising. I turned around and limped it home. The temp gauge never registered over 3/4 but the radiator blew a hole as soon as I pulled in the driveway.
Any suggestions?
Could timing being off a tooth or two cause this?
I cant get a screwdriver into my cylinders. I used the finger pressure method to find tdc. It started right up and idled good with no backfires.
The clutch feels gone which could explain barely having power 1-3 and none 4 and 5.
Maybe it was just the radiators day?