Thanks!! Seeing as how the most I've done is change a fuel pump, my under engine skills and logic are a little less stellar than most.

Talked to my friend who used to own this car; he said he had an engine light about a month before he sold it to me, came up as crank sensor, it went away. He said that shouldn't be what causes those rpms surging, but what do you guys think?

Excited to get the code today.

Doubt its the crank sensor, but who knows. The code will give you a more definitive answer.

You also have to take the oil filler neck off. That just twists off as well.

I changed my IAC.It still surges upon startup sometimes but I beleive that is related to my P0171 code.I still have to check the rest of my vacuum lines for a leak.Are you sure your check engine light is working?

Code is 102, the MAF code. Going to clean it today and hope that fixes it. RPMs surging upon start up now happens everytime.

Cleand MAF sensor and put it back in; no rpm surging and no engine light.
Hopefully it stays this way. Thanks guys!

Could have been the problem. Bad signals to the PCM can cause that.

Okay, I never reset it(stupid me), so this MAY be the issue.
But..

Light came back today, rpm surging came back today, and frequent stalling came back today.

This was right after I took the MAF sensor out and cleaned it again, it started stalling while in drive for about 10 miles, it died about 4 times.

Another 30 miles no events.

Ideas? I did notice a small crack in a what I suppose is vacuum line connection. I'll take pictures tomorrow.

Should I clean the IAC?

Unplug the MAF and drive with it unplugged. If it runs better, the MAF is bad.

Drove with MAF unplugged; car still surged rpms on startup and had an awful rough idle at startup, but actual driving had no stall outs.

However I only had stall outs last night, after a week or two of this rpm surging.

So does this mean MAF is bad(with it unplugged would RPMS still surge?)?
Or IAC valve?