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Fleet, I think this is a very simple, unregulated, single-phase alternator. So it probably does have only two diodes, one on each end of the coil. The good news is that it would be easy to make a functional substitute.
The points are probably just in need of cleaning. The gap looks like about ten thou to me but haven’t gotten into them yet. The distributor rotor and stator look OK to me, no sign of any carbon tracks or cracks. So I’m expecting to have spark at the plugs when I put it together. Wow, those point sets are expensive: close to $75 new and $25-30 on ebay.
I admire the system used by West Bend on the 80 hp four: four sets of points, spaced at 90 deg, each firing it’s own coil. What could be simpler, relatively speaking?
As for the default-to-forward control logic, I can see pros and cons to it.