Surge at idle and temp gauge drops

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bfourman

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Up visiting parents and in-laws (i.e. away from my tools and diag equipment) and the Suburban picked up an annoying issue.

In drive or neutral it randomly surges RPM, as high as 2k. A couple times I had to stab the brakes at a light to keep from rear ending the car in front. Every time it does this the temp gauge drops to 0 and then comes back up when the idle drops to normal.

I checked grounds and battery connections and they passed the wiggle test; I assumed an electrical problem given the temp gauge issue, plus the volt gauge has been at 15v all day. Naturally I can’t get it to reproduce the issue in the driveway, anyone have suggestions I can check when I get home tomorrow? Recent tune up and MAF/TB cleaning done.

09 Burb 2500 6.0L
 

Tonyrodz

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Other then your gauge issues, my LS powered van starting doing the same thing. Turned out to be the iac.
 

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