1999 Venture Stalls When Idling - Crankshaft Sensor?

[Mongolikescandy]

Hi,

New to the forum with a question about my 1999 Venture. It starts fine and runs well. However, at idle, such as when sitting at a traffic light, sometimes it will stall...not always but often enough. It's strange because it will start to idle "rough", a subtle increase and decrease in idle speed based on engine sound (no tach), and then stall. If it idles smooth, no stalling. After it stalls I can easily restart it and get on my way.

I've researched this forum and spoken with people who think it may be the crankshaft sensor. Anyone here have a similar experience? How do I change the sensor on the '99? Any other thoughts greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Steve

[jesuslover]

There is a camshaft sensor also, you can take them to your nearest Autozone and they will test them for you. The crank sensor is near balancer on front of engine, cam sensor is behind alternator.

[Mongolikescandy]

Originally Posted by jesuslover

There is a camshaft sensor also, you can take them to your nearest Autozone and they will test them for you. The crank sensor is near balancer on front of engine, cam sensor is behind alternator.

Thanks for the reply. Will Autozone physically test the sensors themselves or do they simply do a code dump and tell you if you had an error message? Does it sound like it's the likely cause of the stalling?