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I did a bunch of logistical cleaning work on the garage, and I'm finally back to where I was on the vintage Beetle.
One of the things that happen the last few times that I drove the car last fall was that the set of points wore out. I'd noticed the shift in timing that my warning that the failure was imminent, but hadn't known it for what it was. So I bought an electronic points replacement kit but hadn't installed it yet. I was catching up on the episodes of Craig Feruson on the DVR, I grabbed the electronic points kit and installed it in the older of the two distributors I have.
The innards of distributor before installation. The points are the
hinge-looking thingy.
The points replacement kit.
The sensor is the black thing over on the left. I wrapped the wires
in duct tape to protect them from rotation of the rotor once that was
put on.
The black disk below the distributor rotor has four magnets in it.
When each magnet passes by the sensor, it causes the electronic unit
to block the current coming from the coil, generating the spark.
I also got stuff unstacked from around the car. I didn't roll it out
of the garage because the pedal cluster is partially taken apart:
I took the pedal cluster part way out of the tunnel to check the
clutch hook. When cars get old the hook wears through, suddenly
leaving you with no clutch. Mine is fine. But to get it out I had to
take some parts off. One of the things I discovered was that the
brake pushrod wasn't secured properly. I need to manufacture a
securing part and re-assemble that.
So I got the distributors worked on. I didn't do anything to the car per se, but I'm now back at the point when I was last working on it, early this spring, so that's progress of a sort.