Some may remember the saga over whether a 83-84 240 would work with any other distributor year. It was thought (I might still be wrong) that you had to have an 83-84 because an 85 bosch I replaced my chrysler with was stalling until warm and even then I had hesitation and loss of power.

I had replaced my O2 sensor not too many miles back and since I don't drive this car except randomly, the assumption I made was that it couldn't be a problem. A week or two ago I replaced the O2 sensor with one I'd been saving for my 86. The car finally had some pick up and go. But the Chrysler dist I put back in had a short. Or so I thought until today when I realized my splicing with those crimper things proved to be the problem there. I put the 85 bosch back into the car today and it ran fine. Has pretty good power considering the suspension is horrible. I did notice when I opened up the throttle in 3rd gear to accelerating fast that it had a short miss of some sort and then gone.

Except one little problem, it will stall when I let off the gas and coast. The tach drops suddenly and the warning lights come on a split second before the engine can die. If I slow down in gear it won't stall.

I'm thinking at the moment that its either the hall sensor (wasn't doing this the last time I had the distributor in the car), the soldered splices that I have on the harness maybe having too much resistance (two wires have two soldered splices in it), or the Throttle Control Switch is out of adjustment since I messed with it a month ago and went by the clicking sound to adjust it back into place with out a proper led test light thing.

BUT THE 85 works in the 83. Hopefully the dropped ignition isn't the distributor and ICU missing communication.