Rob, What did you do for the bottom plastic pan and the insulators? They are specific to the size of the tank. The one's from the 17 gallon will not fit the 27 gallon. I am asking for future reference. The only place I could get them when I did was from the dealer. Did you find an after market sourc...

Bob, I had a 1986 Safari before this Astro and had to replace the tank so I said the same thing. If I am not prepared with time or money to replace everything (if necessary) I did not want to touch it. By the way what kind of new tank did you get at Autozone? 17 gallon original or 27 gallon replacem...

Thanks for the advice guys. I am a little surprised I started getting recent replies to this post since I posted it last August. I did take your advice very seriously. I went ahead and replaced the line that goes past the gas tank. I did not have the time to drop the tank. If I drop the tank I will ...

It only bothers me if it means something is about to die.

Did this ever happen to anyone? This is weird. I have 1988 Astro 4.3 auto. with 115,000 miles on it, all stock all original.I have had it 1 1/2 years. Sometimes when I stop at a light and I am just sitting there in drive at a dead stop I feel a thump. It is about 10 to 15 seconds after I have come ...

I had an 1986 Safari cargo van for 10 years. At the same time my son had an 1988 Camaro. Both had disc brakes in the front and drums in the rear. Both had the grabbing problem when damp and cold or if it sat for a while. I spent a lot of time and money analyzing this problem. It was always the rears...

Larry,

My van is an 88. Did you find out what you needed to know? The picture of the 87 is exactly like my 88.


Vinny

How come the time on the post is off? What time should it say? EST, CST? Or did I do something wrong?

Down for me too guys!

uncle-vinny

I had the unforunate experience on my 86 Safari of loosing the brakes due to a rotted steel brake line that broke. I now have a 88 Astro. I looked over the brake lines very closely. The two lines that are mounted to the rear axle housing that go to each rear brake were rusted so bad that the spring ...

If you run into the same problem I did with rusted out fuel pipe assemblies the following info my be helpful and save you some time. This is for a 1988 Astro. It will apply to other years but I don't know how many others. Maybe someone who knows could follow-up this post with that info. There are th...

I discovered this handy trick I would like to pass on to anyone that might have a similar problem. I owned a 1986 Safari and now I own a 1988 Astro. This happened to both of them. There is a sheet metal plug in the of bottom of the cat converter. On both my vans it rotted out and I had a exhaust lea...

I wanted to share this info because it might help other people. I had a 1970 Duster slant 6 years ago. The exhaust manifold was cracked and I wanted to replace it. While disassembling it I broke off an mounting stud. I had good access so I tried my hand at drilling out the broken stud. I kept drilli...