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This thing is surging at just above idle like you wouldn't believe! It does it intermittently and is so bad it is as if you floor it and let off as fast as you can. Then it will disappear like magic.
Can't see any trouble under the hood. Gas is new and treated with gas dryer hoping to fix it.
Yep.
I will be testing the Mass airflow meter tomorrow. Anybody know what pins to test and what resistance values I should get?
In case I forget, Thank You in advance .
Mass air tested good. I checked every sensor I could find. Checked the fuel filter. I have no clue. It will do it randomly in any driving condition. Even cruising down the interstate. But you can let off and it will idle.
check the resistance on your plug wires check the entire ignition system mine was doing that and I check the plug wires and one had no resistance at all so I changed them they ran me about 90 bucks from autozone and that was with a commercial account
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