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Scott, you can call me at 603-466-5776 New Hampshire). But, you're well on your way. Cleaning the points is easy. Pull the ground or easiest to reach cable from the battery or disconnect one wire from the coil. Just to be safe. Remove the Dist. cap. unclip the clips. Check for wear. If worn, acquire a new cap and rotor from NAPA, the one with the brass contacts inside and not the aluminum ones. When you remove the rotor, look inside it, or on the shaft and make sure you don't lose that small spring steel clip. Lift the dust cover. Inside you will see the breaker points either open or closed. Doesn't matter if they are touching or not, but I find it easier to pull them open a tad if they are touching, fold over some 600 or finer grit paper, slip them between the point contacts and lightly move the paper back and forth, but be easy. The nickel coating on the points is micro thin. But, if you go to all of that trouble and the points look dirty or worn might was well replace them. But the cleaning should get the tractor to fire up if they are slighlt dirty or burned. Also, replace the small condensor in there too. It could be, that that has gone bad and not the points. Nonetheless, both are easy to replace and your I&T Manual, or Ford owners manual or shop manul will cover the finer points (pun not intended) of installing and setting the gap. But you will need a gauge set and check for the correct gap according to the manual. Avoid removing the Dist to do this. Because you will have to make sure that you have the rotor in the same position as it is now. Otherwise, you could mess up the timing. And that's another long message. Call me if you need to. Good luck. Tom
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