Possible ignition cylinder problem

[QC DSM ESiT]

Hello everyone. Okay well I went out to my Turbo Mini yesterday and went to fire it up. It fired up for a second and then died. I tried again and you can here the fuel pump prime. Then go and turn the key and... nothing. Try again and this time it seems that it's getting no voltage to any of the gauges and no prime of the fuel pump. Turn the key and of course... nothing. I then leave it to the on position and kinda jiggle the whole cylinder and key and all of a sudden the gauges get power and the fuel pump primes. I then turn the key and it fires right up. I drive it around the block and shut it off and then start it a couple seconds later and it fires right up now. Everything is prefectly fine with the Van now and if I jiggle the key and cylinder nothing happens. Should I think about replacing the ignition cylinder or could it be something else? I sure as hell don't want to be in the middle of no where when it decides to do this again. What should I do? Thanks in advance.

[ShelGame]

My Daytona started doing the exact same thing recently. I need to get a new ignition switch I guess...

[QC DSM ESiT]

My Daytona started doing the exact same thing recently. I need to get a new ignition switch I guess...

So you think it's probably the ignition swith then?

[ShelGame]

I can't see how it could be anything else. On mine, you can turn it to accesosory and it seems fine. But, you turn it to ignition and everything goes dead. Even with a battery charger hooked up. It won't even crank.

Once, I left it at ignition on and got out to check voltages and while I was under the hood, everything came back to life.

[rdnoel86]

This might not pertain to you guys, but I know in the mid 90's some of the Intrepid/Concorde/Visions(which I had) had some ignition switch problems..it was put out there by a couple Chrysler mechanics that it was caused by heavy key chains causing excess wear in the mechanisms. True or not I don't know but I had to change mine.......