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Anonymous Posted on Feb 06, 2013

94 chevy astro rough idle and surge when driving

Today while stopped at a stop light, the idle became very rough. After picking my child up from school the van began to surge while driving down the road. Complete tune up a month ago including coil, wires, plugs D-cap, Rotor. and module. This thing feels like its going to die. Once i got home it stated right up but still had a rough idle. waited for an hour and it really didn't want to start at all. the surging idle and surging driving still continious.

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Check throttle body and check for codes

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  • Anonymous Feb 15, 2013

    The problem turned out to be a bad regulator. I put in a new one and now have low fuel pressure.

  • Anonymous Feb 16, 2013

    check Fuel Regulator

  • Anonymous Feb 16, 2013

    I mean check Fuel Relay

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  • Posted on Oct 22, 2008

SOURCE: 1994 chevy astro van awd

underneth the intake manold is were your fuel injector poppet nozzles are, more than likely the fuel line hose that goes thru the back of the intake is split and leaking fuel underneth the intake manifold if you check the fuel pressure you will find that the fuel pressure will drop down to 0 psi as soon as the fuel pump shuts off and it should hold pressure

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  • Posted on May 15, 2008

SOURCE: Running "rough"

I had the same issue with my venture. It turned out to be the number 5 plug wire, backside of engine ended up breaking out of the plug carrier and burning in half on the manifold. Your best bet is to trace all the wires to start off with and change the plugs. If that doesn't help, it may be internal. Good luck

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  • Posted on Aug 04, 2008

SOURCE: 1995 Chevy silverado with a

I have experienced this problem on similar vehicles. You should try and replace the coolant temp sensor. If it is not reading the correct temp to the ecm, it will not get the right fuel map. Also, the cts will not always throw a code.

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  • Posted on Feb 07, 2009

SOURCE: rough idle / engine surges until power is applied

Sounds like a possible vaccume hose leak?

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  • Posted on Apr 23, 2009

SOURCE: 2000 Chevy Astro Van while driving just stops running

Hey I had my rotor and all that stuff replaced on my 2000 astro van, Intermittently it would not run, The problem was I hit a puddle one day and water flew up on top of the roter like 3 drops, it created a trace( it was arching) Thats why it was intermittent.Take a look at the cap look for like a discoloration on it clean it and put it back on.Sounds too easy but remember I had all new parts too.

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