Chevy Astro

it is under the glove box on the passenger side. it literally takes 5 minutes to change it. the part cost is about $15. 2 screws and it drops right out.

I think I had the same problem on my 2000 and decided to just take off the lower radiator hose to drain it.

The Freon probably needs to be recharged. Any repair shop should be able to do this. They should also test the system for leaks to see why the Freon leaked out to begin with.

5.5 inch

Rpms, revolutions per minute.

Hey Dude: You can turn your dome light off in your van by turning your headlight switch (or dimmer switch ) all the way to the right. Left turns on your dome light, so go the opposite all the way till it clicks. It will now stay off when your door opens. .

Check the following................

1. Power and ground to the blower motor.

2. Blower resister.

3. Blower switch.

Jack up vehicle loosen the 10 differential bolts using a screwdriver pry off pressed steel cove allow oil to drain , clean metal magnet off located inside diff cover, clean both mating sides to cover and differential housing, replace with a gasket which you buy at the local parts dealer with 80/90 weight gear oil, put gasket on torqued to specified tightness, remove check fill plug passenger side differential fill to the quantity specs and that it (note use a wheel blocking system before performing this task 1/2 inch socket required to take differential bolts off , gasket costs $6.00 same as rtv sealer but way easier and less messy to use.

You either have a cracked head gasket or a cracked head or a cracked block YOU MAY HAVE A BLOWN HEAD GASKET OR A CRACK EITHER ON THE ENGINE BLOCK OR CILYNDER HEAD. YOUR OIL HAS CHANGE TO A MILKY WHITE SUBSTANCE RIGHT? IS THE CAR SMOKING? Yes it smokes like a freight train.I RECENTLY REBUILT IT AND PUT AN ALUMINUM EDELBROCK INTAKE AND CARBURETOR ON IT. I HAD THE BLOCK CLEANED AND BORED 40 OVER AND ALSO HAD THE HEADS SHAVED.COULD IT BE THE INTAKE ? IT SEEMS TO ME THAT AS FAST AS IT GOES INTO THE OIL PAN IF IT WAS A PROBLEM WITH THE BLOCK OR HEADS THE SHOP WOULD HAVE SEEN IT. THANKS FOR ANY HELP YOU CAN GIVE. TRY CHECKING THE MOST COMMON CAUSE WHICH IS THE HEAD GASKET. TRY THIS TEST. IF IS A V6TYPE ENGINE TAKE OUT MIDDLE SPARK PLUG ON 1 SIDE ONLY, AND HAVE SOMEONE CRANK THE ENGINE.(JUST CRANK IT A FEW TIMES OR START IT FOR A SECOND ONLY)YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO SEE THE "SMOKE" COME OUT OF THE SPARK PLUGS HOLE. IF NO SMOKE, GO TO THE OTHER SIDE AND TRY THE SAME TEST . ONCE YOU FOUND THE SIDE THAT IS HAVING THE PROBLEM ALL YOU NEED TO DO IS BEGIN LOOKING FOR CAUSES.(''IF YOU GOT SMOKE ON '''BOTH''' SIDES THEN THE PROBLEM MAY NOT BE THE HEAD GASKET ,VERY RARELY BOTH SIDES GO BAD AT THE SAME TIME'') SINCE YOU SUSPECT THE INTAKE ,HAVE A LOOK AND CHECK IF IS SITTING PROPERLY IN PLACE AND THE GASKET IS IN PLACE.BUT NORMALLY 99% OF THE TIME THE HEAD GASKET IS TO BLAME. NOTE.COOLANT USUALLY BURNS OUT IN THE COMBUSTION CHAMBER ,BUT SINCE YOU HAVE FOUND IT IN YOUR OIL PAN YOUR PROBLEM MAY BE A LITTLE DIFFRENT/COMPLICATED.YOUR PISTON RINGS ARE ALLOWING IT TO GO DOWN IN TO THE OIL PAN WHICH IS SOMETHING THAT HAS TO BE ADDRESSED AS WELL.

Fuel Pump. Test For Fuel. Sound As If All Else Is Working Check for and replace any and all bad fuses. Check for fuel leaks. Check for trouble codes in the computer.

its next to the thermastat

but you'll have to remove the air duct, the upper radiator hose, and this type support metal thing which helps support the air compressor to the engine

make sure you release the plastic tab on the e. g. r. electrical connector with a vere small screw driver, wiggeling to help it off

than just 2 -10 millimeter bolts

you may want to get a new gaskett too, clean both surfaces first.

smoking reefer

is smoking marijuana / cannabis.

reefer is another word for cannabis.

'ey rudeboy, set that reefer here'

Check your fuses. Your owner's manual will show you where the fuses are. Replace any that are "blown," that is, no longer conducting electricity. You can tell faulty fuses of the type in your Astro by looking at the loop of metal in the fuse. If it is broken, the fuse has blown. You can buy an assortment at any auto parts store. If the fuse continues to blow, you will have to research the cause. If you are not comfortable working on your van, or if you don't know about automotive electrical components, you will have to find a competent mechanic. Researching automotive electrical problems can take hours, although many are quickly solved. Mechanics will tell you how much they charge per hour; that may motivate you to fix the problem yourself, or you could take a long-term view and just chalk up the charge to the cost of possession of a vehicle.

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pull out the outer edges of the door panel. then take out the screw behind the door handle. there are 2 screws under the armrest you need to take out. after all that is done pll door panel towards you and lift up. then take out the four screws around the speaker and put it all back together doin all this in reverse.

I had the same problem with my '97 Astro van, the plastic vacuum line from the PCV valve to the vacuum cannister underneath the front end had broken. It might not be that vacuum line, but you do have a vacuum leak somewhere.

you should be able to find the fuse at your local pepboys. just buy it pop your hood and remove the fuse cover to the right of your engine compartment and there you will find the fuse usually the white, leftmost fuse ****WRONG INFO HERE****simply pop it out with a flathead s. driver or a fuse removal tool (supplied with fuse sometimes).***

****It's actually harder than that. Remove the fuse cover and it will be on the left, only fuse that says 120. You will need to take off four nuts (not bolts) that are facing up vertically. Then remove the yellow cables that are underneath that. The fuse box will be able to lift up. Turn it over as much as possible to look at the bottom side. The last and hardest step is to remove the bolts that are horizontally holding onto the 120 fuse. These are a pain to get to, one more so than the other. Just use a wrench since a socket wont fit in the tiny space! Then replace the fuse and replace the pesky screws and fuse cover.******

Anything can be done with a welder, but the bolts do not lineup.

I'm 6'2" and weigh 130 lbs, so I've had to gain a lot of confidence to go out shirtless. I think the best way is to start sleeping without a shirt to get used to it, then lounge around the house in a sleeveless shirt. If you have to go out to take out the trash or something, don't put a shirt on, go out with what you're wearing. Eventually you'll have confidence to go out without thinking about it. That worked for me, but the best thing has taken me a while to learn: don't care about what other people may be thinking about you. If they don't like it, that's their problem, not yours. Don't worry about it.

Yes, it can cause low/unstable idle or die off at idle.

I remove the fuel pump fuse or relay while the engine is running. The engine will run until the pressure has dropped. Leave the fuse or relay out until you have finished replacing the fuel filter.

The answer depends on what type of magnetic sensor you are speaking of.

One type might be a reed switch. In the presence of a magnetic field the switch changes state, either opened to closed or closed to open. I'd consider this one the simplest type of sensor. Either the field is strong enough to cause the state change or it isn't.

Another type I'd consider to be more of a transducer. According to physics' proof and the ideas of a guy from long ago named Faraday, a changing magnetic field (this field is also said to be in a state of "flux" when changing) in the presence of a conductor will induce a voltage proportional to the rate of change of the field.

Mathematically stated this is written as

e = k do/dt

where e is the voltage induced, k is a constant of proportionality, and do/dt (the derivative of phi, o, with respect to time) is the rate of change of the flux.

(Note: o is supposed to be the Greek letter phi, but I haven't a convenient means of entering it, and I don't remember the ASCII code.)

Anyway, so this e voltage that's developed can be measured with a voltmeter or via an oscilloscope and is proportional to the rate of change of the magnetic field. Rarely would a magnetic field remain constant. Therefore, one can always expect some amount of potential to be developed no matter how small.

However, you may be asking, 'but what about the field itself. How would the field's strength be detected?'

The do/dt in the above equation is the key. Just the same way that o can be differentiated (called "taking the derivative" of) to obtain do/dt, do/dt can be integrated (the opposite/inverse of differentiation) to obtain o. However, it should be understood that there must be a time period involved, because integration is, simply stated, the area under the curve. You can't have an area without a width. Therefore, when integrating we're taking a bunch of infinitessimally small-width rectangles and summing them over a period of time (because time is the independent variable in the above equation and not something else.)

So, leaving the Calculus aside except for the above equation, the way the magnetic field is detected is the voltage e that's developed must then be applied across a load. For example, we could just measure it with a voltmeter, but that voltmeter itself is a load, a very high resistance load. When that load is applied, a current flows due to more physics and the theories of another guy long before television named Ohm (if there is a closed loop for the current to flow in.)

Ohm's Law (actually, I'm pretty sure it's still a theory, but they call it a law) states:

voltage = current x resistance

or

e = i x r

or

The potential, e, developed across a resistance is proportional to the current flowing through the resistance. (Notice that e gets larger as i gets larger?)

Hence, rearranging Ohm's Law to solve for i we have (and I'm going to write the equation downward this time):

e

=

ir

therefore

e

--

r

=

ir

--

r

therefore

i

=

e

--

r

So (saying it like a normal person now) we have

i = e/r

What this says is we can produce a current proportional to the voltage developed by applying that voltage across a load.

Hence, to sense the strength of the magnetic field, we can integrate the rate of change of the flux over time, or, if we're only interested in whether the field is present or not, we can read the voltage developed whenever the field changes. Either way we have sensed the magnetic field.

There's one other way to sense a magnetic field and it's by way of another phenomenon of physics called "The Hall Effect." However, I regret that I don't remember enough about it to explain it very well. In a nutshell, a voltage is developed in the presence of a magnetic field within (usually) a semiconductor material by the magnetic force causing drifting positive charges to go one way and negative charges to go the opposite way thus producing a difference of potential across the material. That difference of potential is called the "Hall voltage" or "Hall emf" (electromagnetic force, voltage). However, with this short explanation I really do not do Edwin Hall (another guy who didn't watch tv) justice. And I'd really appreciate it if someone more knowledgeable will post an update to this answer which does explain it.