Chrysler Repair: Lebaron Fault Code, distributor shaft, mr roland


Question
I checked under the hood and i saw the distributor cap and unscrewed it, now it saw the rotor and under the rotor is a coil but i see nothing with wires resembling a hall effect sensor..is that the coil
-------------------------

Followup To

Question -
Hi Mr. Roland Finston, I talked to you last year about my car and you told me how to fix it and it worked. But now I have a different problem, the car won't run and the fault code is 11.

The car is a chrysler 87 Lebaron 2.5

Answer -
Hi Anthony,
Check the wires and plug coming from the distributor, but in all likelihood it is the Hall effect sensor located inside the distributor. This is mounted in a disc and has the replacement wires attached so it is basically "plug and play" at a cost of about $40. Just remove the distributor cap, rotor, and water shield and you will see it.
Roland

Answer
Hi Anthony,
The sensor is on the underside of a black plastic disc that is the same diameter as the inside of the distributor (slightly domed, 6 segments etched in the surface, wire and plug to connect externally to engine harness plug) and if you lift up that disc and remove it that is the entire hall effect "assembly" that you can purchase at a dealer or parts store for replacement so as to get the engine to run again, assuming that the ll code is caused by a failure of the sensor, which is usually the case, rather than a problem with the wires between it and the computer.
If you have the 2.5L fuel injected engine in your '87 that has to be the way the distributor is set up, as I see it in the '87 shop manual. The sensor is not a 'coil', rather it is a crystal that is sensitive to a magnetic interactiom between it and the metal blades attached to the distributor shaft that you will also see once you remove that disc. I can't understand why there would be such a coil as this type of distributor was in use for several years earlier and later than '87.
Roland