Took the 88 for a 300 mile round trip the other weekend, to go camping in the Peak District with a bunch of other like-minded (2cv club) idiots. In a beer garden, of course.
On the way there, it started coughing and farting, which got worse and worse, then a bit better. Nothing that couldn't be driven around, but it was also a bit reluctant to drop back to an idle, which was a pain on the convoy down narrow lanes...
My first thought, because this was at the end of the first tankful of juice it'd had through in five years, was gunk in the carb. But I was aware that I'd not done anything with the points, either, apart from buy a set - and they ain't a lot of use in the drawer...
After a bit of head-scratching, I decided not to bother fitting them - and went straight for the SimonBBC/PowerSpark electronic kit. So - the distributor's just been apart to fit it.
To be honest, I'm amazed the damn thing ran at all, let alone as well as it did! There's really not very much of the old points left, especially the static half. I don't know when I last saw a set so badly eroded and burnt.
Fitting the kit was a bit more of a fanny than I expected - the base plate had to come out to remove the spring-loaded plastic heel onto the shaft - and I'm surprised that it doesn't use the vac advance, just the mechanical - and wasn't helped a bit by the hail that started just as I got to the point of no return...
But a quick once up the lane? Transformed. It's in a much better mood than it was.
