So I have some great news. Firstly it turns out the 4.27mhz crystal WAS OKAY. The counter i was using was giving bad values. So the error was somewhere between the color circuits and the color output.
I hooked up my scope leads 1.) to where the recombined NTSC color was coming out of the color circut and 2.) the INPUT where the signal generator was coming to the unit. Both
should be the same waveform and it was..so I started looking at the EV color play board.
Due to some dumb luck I started tweaking one of the screw adjustments (L509) all to the way to max level, and suddenly BOOM, color! Its not perfect, as when I twist L509 to make color on the video tapes, the MONITOR colors are still wrong, but when I twist l509 to make the color bars correct, the tape color goes back to rainbowing. So tonight I have some work to do on the adjustments, but man it feels good seeing color on these tapes (even if they are taped in the 80s from a source with high generation copies)
