OK, so I still haven't checked compression, but I'm getting there. Today was pretty much an incomplete-- two steps forward, at least one back.

This afternoon, I pulled the timing chain cover and checked all the marks. Distributor was in the right spot at TDC, but...

Take a look at the picture of the camshaft pulley-- two different marks! I had forgotten about this from the first time I reinstalled the timing belt. I lined it up with the inner mark, because that's what the pictures I could find showed. I'm thinking perhaps this one is incorrect, so I re-aligned the camshaft pulley with the outer notch (the one with the arrow in the pic). I also appeared off a tooth or two on the distributor pulley line up, so I fixed that.

Other stuff-- found a wire that had come off the alternator, hopefully explaining why the battery wasn't really charging.

Finally, the idler pulley that tensions the power steering pump (or could be the AC, I'm honestly not sure)-- how are you supposed to adjust this? I'm not sure my way is working, and I seem to have added too much tension to it. I may have over-tightened the bolt that holds the pulley on-- Even with jumper cables, the battery/starter (with jumper cables attached, voltage w

And by this time it was dark, so I'll tackle the battery and idler/tensioner pulley tomorrow.