Help!!!!

When you remove the nuts holding the rear chrome trim, use a magnetic insert or some heavy grease in the socket. If you drop the nuts inside the interstructure, they're gone until you can strip the car, turn it up-side-down and give it a shake! :-) Be carefull with that rear plastic trim. If it's like all of mine, it's as crispy as a potato chip at this point. By all means, replace the points and set the dwell/timing. The alternator won't effect the way the engine runs (until the battery goes dead anyway). There is no oil temp sender. There is an oil pressure sender which is right next to the distributor. The water temp sender is up front next to the heater hose nipple on the passenger side of the intake. Neither of those will effect the running of the engine either.