Astro van problem

If it is surging and then droping off it could be your idle air control valve.

Sounds like your bands are locking up and sticking.
This is usually caused by worn bands or very dirty transmission fluid. the cheap fix is to change your transmission fluid and filter. If that doesn't fix the problem, your forward bands or servo may be worn out, which will require a rebuild.

I sounds as though your friend bent the parking pin, or tried to engage park with your van moving either forward or back and has wedged it somehow. you can try to grease the **** linkage or have this done it may help or you may need a new park pin

sadly, it sounds like a bad torque converter.

im sorry to say no it will not.

Sorry but it sounds like you need to have the tranny rebuilt.

If it's anything like my 1994 Vandura, you have a small panel of rocker switchers above the rearview mirror for turning your interior lights and other gadgets(tv, vcr, etc) off and on.

The leftmost switch on mine moves the electric bench seat up and down, *and* forward and back. The trick is that you have to hold it down to make it move.

With mine, even though there are four actions:
- slide seat forward
- slide seat backward
- fold seat down
- fold seat up
there is only one rocker switch.

So what you do is hold "up" on the switch and see what it does. If it slides the seat in either direction, up for your van is for both sliding forward *and* back. To do the opposite direction, just wait a second then press the same button the same way a second time.

If up makes it fold, it's the same principle. Hold the rocker switch depressed in the up position to make it fold up. Wait a moment and repeat to make it go down.

It wasn't intuitive for me either but once you know and play with it a bit it makes sense. Probably better than having four switches up there anyway :)

Good luck!

try moving te shift lever up and down sometimes it will work other than that you have to pull the column apart to get the lock cylinder out

I just bought a 93 GMC Safari Van and couldn't figure this out either. Luckily, I did have the manual. It appears that the  lever under the front of the sofa moves in forwards and backwards. There is a lever on the corner of each side. Lift up on each and pull cushion forward. Also, you can push on the back of the sofa to help it go down. Hope this helps! 

You can remove door trim panels from inside the car, panel will come off even the door is closed.
Than put you hand inside door and pull levers to open door.