[tvcollector]

Update...

I loosened both tape guides to where they are about all the way screwed out, I don't know if thats the position or close to the position they were screwed in factory wise, and now vcr keeps attempting to go into stereo mode with the sound cutting out, (Which i know when not tracking properly sound goes out) it switches back and forth to normal, and sound keeps going on and off, but now there is a steady pulse on the screen with a bouncing motion with it, which makes me believe the drum is not going proper speed, or the tape speed sightly shifts back and forth, also when i adjust the tracking to where it's off track, you can see the off tracking fade in/out at a steady motion with the pulse.

but if i screw in both guides to most the way like i have been doing, and trying to adjust them that way, i don't get the steady pulse, but still i get the same symptoms as i listed above, and vcr never attempts to go into stereo mode.