Chrysler Repair: 1995 plymouth grand voyager 3.0l no spark, plymouth grand voyager, jumper wire

Question
I am trying to help a neighbor with their 1995 Plymouth Grand Voyager 3.0 L engine that won't start.  They were driving it down the street, it died, no sputter nothing, just like you turned the key off.  There is no spark at the coil.  I have performed a lot of the tests that I have found on this site on other threads but have come to a dead end.  There is .8 volts at the positive side of the coil with the ignition on, this is the same voltage that I am finding on the inboard and outboard terminals of the auto shutdown relay.  I tried a jumper cable in place of the ASR to see if that might be the problem,  I do have 12 volts at the coil with the jumper wire in place of the ASR but still no spark.  Are there any tests that I can run on the pickup in the distributor, or is it unreasonable for me to think that this may be the problem?  The neighbor has mentioned that the check engine light has been on for some time, however I can not get any code to come up using the on-off-on-off-on thing with the ignition switch.  

Thank you for your time
Casey

Answer
Hi Casey,
The inboard pin of the ASD socket is from the ignition switch and so should have 12V when in the 'run' position. So there is something wrong with that supply voltage or fuse 16 through which it passes (labelled ETAX). The inboard/outboard pins are the ASD relay coil wires, the front and rear pins are the main current output of the ASD, for future reference. I am concerned that you have no codes, not even a 55? The pickup is photooptic so you might see some pulsing if you had the ignition on and turned the engine over by hand. See if you have 9 volts on the orange wire at the disconnect plug, the black/light blue wire would be the sensor signals ground wire, and the two signals would be on the other two wires so you could check each of those for pulsing against the black/light blue when you turn the engine over by hand. If there is a problem in the distributor it would be an 11 or a 54 code. Have you checked the rotor? The rear pin of the ASD socket should show 12v at all times, and when the coil closes that is sent across to the front pin which should then appear at the coil, injectors, alternator field coils.
Roland