[mr_charles]

OK, me and my pops just went to work on it again and we made some progress. We tested the coil wire, it works. We tested the actual coil itself, it works. We got the distributor out and saw that the points looked decently corroded. So, now the next step is to clean the points inside the distributor. Problem is, we don’t know how to do that! Oh, and before I forget, the distributor is the old school ‘scuba mask’ style.
So, the overall question I’m trying to ask now is, how do we clean the points on the inside of the distributor? (Thank you all for your help!) (and to answer your question 38 coupe, the distributor has not been worked on since the 60s, and the points have not seen electricity since about 50 years ago)