I can take a pic of the insides of the door if you want, if it'll help in jimmying it.
When my MAF went, on the last day from Blue Ridge Parkway back to Toronto, the car would stall as I took my foot off the gas pedal completely. At that point, there's no issue with power/hesitation, but when I got back to Toronto, it got progressively worse.
The easiest way to test a MAF is to swap in a known good unit. From the problems the users have had around here, there aren't that many different variations of problems with stalling as you have described, that did not involve a check engine code.
But then again, you'd never know...
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