2002 Malibu Surging

LUANGTOM

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2002 CHEVROLET TRUCK

I drive a 2002 Chevrolet Malibu with 69, XXX-miles
on it. At highway speeds, the engine rpm's "surge"
200-300-rpm's under no load. No "service engine"
lights or codes appear. We have serviced the fuel-
injectors, checked the plugs and wires and finally
replaced the fuel-injectors. We still get the "surge".

We also took out the K&N filter thinking it may have
contaminated the MAF sensor and replaced it with a
Fram paper-filter. We cleaned the MAF sensor and we
still get the "surge" Any suggestions? Should we now
replace the MAF sensor?

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SDALTON19

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Your problem could be a number of things however sometimes cleaning the maf sensor does no good depending on whether it is a hot film type or not if the maf sensor was contaminated with oil I would say it is best to replace it rather than clean it if you dont have any diagnostic equipment to properley test the sensor

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Saturday, May 27th, 2006 AT 9:11 PM

LUANGTOM

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Thanks. We have changed all of the fuel-injectors,
checked the plugs and wires, all to no avail. We
just changed the Mass Air Flow sensor today. The
car still surges the 200-300 rpm's at highway speeds.
It does this maybe two or three times in 25-miles.
Any suggestions as to what we should try next?

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Tuesday, May 30th, 2006 AT 12:30 PM

LUANGTOM

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After running through all of the fuel-injector and
MAF sensor replacedment, we still have the surge.
We drove the car in D3 versus D/Over-drive and
the surge does not happen. Could this be slipping
in over-drive?

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Thursday, June 1st, 2006 AT 12:37 PM