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Like Shayne sez points are probably suspect. Cap and rotor wear only from arcing. Cam lobes on the distributor shaft do wear out, but I woudl think it would show up on 1 cylinder first, not fail two or all at once. If the car sat, then the general corrosion can muck up the points.
I would clean the points first, and set the point gap with the lobe at the highest mark to .020 or somethign like that. The correct spec will be forthcoming, I expect. Cleaning the points is a time-honored tradition, so I will give you the purist and the practical approaches.
The purists use a point file, because fine wet-or-dry sandpaper leaves small deposits of silicon carbide on the contact surfaces. For teh rest of us, who replaced points on a regular basis anyhow, sandpaper was a lot easier to get in there and gave a gooe result more easily.
A good fix, if that is the problem, is install a pertronix ignitor electronic sensor, which replaces the points altogether. IPD has them for about $70(?). Once you get the thing running nice and can determine if the car has personal value to you, this upgrade may save you a lot of headscratching in the future when you forget again, as many owners, myself included, do, for like the fourteenth time, that ignition is the single biggest cause of problems in the car.
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MPergiel, Elmhurst, IL '74 145e T-5 'Orange Alert'
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