Still have random bouts of backfiring and power loss, seemingly ignition Options

[BigDBass]

I've been fighting an issue for a few months now.
My 2.0 DJet randomly decides to backfire and lose power.

A fellow Chicagoland member helped me to adjust the points and check the timing. That seemed to fix it... at first. He said the cam in the distributor looked like it was started to wear.) The points, wires, etc all look relatively new.

Sometimes upon starting the engine, just revving it a little in neutral is enough to feel/hear the sputtering and backfiring. If I go to the engine and sort of wiggle/push/jiggle the distributor cap and/or wires, it goes away for awhile. I discovered this just when trying to see if the distributor was loose or something.

The car will run fine for awhile, then out of nowhere just start bogging, backfiring, etc. Then it will just go away and run fine again.

It sort of seems (or I am imagining) that if I decelerate, that might trigger the symptom. Like cruising in 3rd at 3500-4000 RPM but then if I coast and it drops down to 3000 it will "crap out" when I open the throttle back up. But then if I downshift, it wakes up again.

It's just a bummer cuz even when it's running ok on the rare occassions lately I'm able to go for a drive, I can hardly enjoy it because I'm waiting for it to crap out again.