As someone else said, a noisy pump does not mean it is bad or about to go bad. Had one that whined for about three years. The clue is the change in the sound of the pump. Generally, a good pump runs around 60 PSI. If I recall, the minimum starting pressure is 54 PSI and the minimum to keep the engin...

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Over 60 days since installing the salvage distributor and it hasn't skipped once. Thrust washer, gear wear.... crappy plastic housing? What ever the booger is that causes this is in the distributor.

Ok, so yesterday I needed to drive into Rock Hill anyway, so I went by the U Pull It yard and grabbed a distributor out of a Jimmy. $11 and change. Installed it last night. Van is running like a champ. The cap on the used distributor was in good shape and had a manufacture date stamped on it of 6/13...

OK... pretty sure it is a bad distributor. Found this guy with an explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=se63j2q_5GA I pulled the dog house this morning and checked for loose play and there is a ton of play in the distributor, up and down. This allows the shaft to move up and down, thus allowi...

Well... at least I'm not the only one experiencing this. It's a very weird thing. I went and helped a buddy yesterday where a tree had fallen across the back of a house he uses for storage. We cut it up and used the van to pull some large sections of that oak tree away from the house and out to his ...

The give away on vacuum leak is often that you lose ventilation control in the cabin. Vents default to defrost position and will not switch to floor or front dash vents. If you are only getting heat and A/C through the dash defrost vents, definitely check all vacuum lines.

Ok. I managed to find pics of all my Astro vans, even found a couple of the '95 Safari. http://i61.tinypic.com/2ev3ktj.jpg Outside the Barking Spider Tavern in Cleveland. The trailer beside the van is the one I towed around the country. It eventually killed the transmission in that Safari in Birming...

Alright Wiley.... I will sift through the pics and see if I can post up the family ..... I am not sure if I have any pics of the 95 Safari... maybe... it has been gone for a quite few years.... but pretty sure I have pics of the rest. I haven't tricked out any of these vans or anything.... the thing...

Thanks for the reccomendations on distributors. I am always wary of aftermarket parts for critical areas of perfromance. Those 3,000 mile fuel pumps will sure teach you a lesson about that. I haven't noticed any play or gear wear at this point, but I haven't specifically looked for wear or play eith...

Thanks for the reply. Not familiar with any timing adjustment on a '96 Astro. Far as I know, the timing is set and advanced by the ECM according to sensor input. The distributors on these vans are locked down in one position. I have heard of the "one tooth" idea before and have placed the ...

New member, just reading through some post. Fuel pumps: After owning several of these vans and replacing 6 or 7 fuel pumps, I can tell you that the life of an aftermarket fuel pump is much shorter than you are going to want it to be. They will strand you AGAIN, within a year. On the plus side, if yo...

Ok... I think I found the right place to post up this issue. After owning and servicing four of these vans over the years, I thought I had seen it all. That's why I bought a nice '96 model with 25K on a crate motor. Good body, interior great, little old lady just drove it to church and back.... neve...

Hello everyone, I am a long time Astro / Safari owner, having owned three Astros and one Safari over 15 years or so. A '95 Safari, then a '98 Astro and at the same time a '99 Conversion Astro and now a '96 Astro. I thought I had seen and done just about everything under the sun with these vans, the ...