'88 240 ICU plug

[DarDaq]

I have an '88 wagon with intermittent stalling issues. A couple years ago, I narrowed the issue down to a worn hall effect wire. The trouble is that the affected part of the wire is very close (as in millimeters) to where it joins the plug for the ignition control unit near the passenger fender well. I was able to very carefully cut the hall effect wire and solder in a new section of wire (it was pretty tight quarters, not sure I'd be able to re-do it), and this seemed to solve the problem for a year or so, but now the stalling is back. I'm always able to get the car to start right back up by jumping out and wiggling the plug/wire, but the stalling is becoming more frequent lately and having to jump out to pop the hood in rush hour traffic isn't ideal. I had a couple of ideas, but could use some feedback:

1) I'm curious if I could pull the hall wire out of the ICU plug and try to reattach it somehow with a better section of wire. Does anyone have any experience with this? is it possible?

or

2) I also thought I might be able to find someone with a wiring harness that would be willing to cut their ICU plug off the harness and sell to me so I can solder it into my harness. Anyone out there have an old wiring harness or know where to find one?


Anyone have any other suggestions?

[jimmy57]

An issue that effects that Chrysler built ignition is the pins getting loose from the circuit board due to cracked solder joint.
Take the ICU out and take it apart and clean off the gel stuff and inspect. You will have to re-solder those pins where they attach to the board. If you want to confirm this is it you can usually take a probe of some sort and see if any of the pins wiggle.