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  1. J

    I'm trying to get my 1987 Lincoln Town car have power.

    Put gears in it first, put some 4.10 and you beat that caddy. A stock windsor won't have any more hp than you have now just a lot more torque and a lot of hassle. but to upgrade your heads and cam your computer will have to swapped over to mass air off of a 89-93 mustang.
  2. J

    Hydraulic Fan Diagnostic

    Well I got lucky picked up a 02 LS for $2k with a a bad fan, but dealer had quoted something line 2800$ to customer. all it was, was a sheared off roll pin inside the fan motor, pulled 4 bolts and put a new roll pin put back in car and now I have a fan that works, feels good to outsmart a...
  3. J

    Hydraulic Fan Diagnostic

    So if the solenoid is bad and everything else is good the fan should at least turn slowly when idling correct? I just picked up a 02 v6 LS fan no worky, no leaks. My guess is bad fan pump,cause I am not seeing any fluid movement in resovoir.
  4. J

    Spark Plug Eater!!!

    Sounds like the plugs arent the problem, why do you think they are bad???? Are there any burn lines down the plug, you know the outside where the wire pushes on to. If you are getting burn lines than your wires are bad, replacing the plugs are only temp fix until the wire skips again ruining...
  5. J

    Crush nut on rear knuckle/half shaft.

    I just did rear wheel bearings ins a audi A4 awd similar setup like a mark 8 but used Bolts that go to axle instead of a nut, The torque on it was 85ftlbs and turn 1/2 turn, 180 degrees, that was f'ing tight, I had to use a 5ft long pipe to get it there, kinda real tight.
  6. J

    Lighting Module

    The last mark that did what yours is saying its doing , the customer had just come from the dealer with a new lighting module and about 500$ bill and nothing had changed, I found a chaffed wires shorting to eachother in the drivers door, but everycar is different.
  7. J

    opinions or advice

    You put 3 sets of Motorcraft cop's on?? did you just change all 8 at any sign of miss, most oem coils last 80-100k miles so do you have like 300k miles on it or what, how are the valve cover gaskets, and what plugs are you using. If you had a missfire burn down a plug porcelin it will ruin...
  8. J

    97 - 98 lincoln mark viii mirrors left and right oem

    damn, I just paid 250$ for one side used off of ebay a while back, dealer price is like 800$
  9. J

    What Plug Wires ?

    technically there are 4 coils that fire 2 plugs at the same time. its just they package 2 of them together, On each coil you can reverse the pairs and run fine, cause they fire the same time. you can switch them anytime and would give longer plug life. cause have you ever noticed how one...
  10. J

    Gears

    A trans cooler is mainly more needed for a higher stall converter, not gear change. Almost all the heat created from a trans is from the converter, and the higher numerical rear gear means less torque put on engine and trans therefore torque converter will stay locked up longer which equates...
  11. J

    p0307, p0174, p1506

    try swapping coils around, like switch coil #7 with coil #5 if miss moves than you coil is bad, just because its new don't make it good. Also the miss causes the lean code cause there is unburnt air going to the exhaust, cylinder #7 is bank 2 coincidence, I think not. I replace aftermarket...
  12. J

    Airbag Light?

    that is not a true test though. but if they did quit then I would say yeah its definately clock spring. it is common to just lose the part of the clockspring usually the airbag part, go figure the most life saving part.
  13. J

    what type of gas?

    Ususally the higher octane fuel will yield a higher mpg in a LS because it uses knock sensors, If the ecm detects detonation it lowers timing and therefore lowers your mpg. If you drive it conservatively you can run a lower octane fuel with probably no decrease, but if you really think about...
  14. J

    What Plug Wires ?

    Get Motorcraft wires. If you want blue get wires for a 1998 mustang cobra, I think they are cheaper than the red mark wires the mark calls for.
  15. J

    Crush nut on rear knuckle/half shaft.

    WOW than I am going to have a few hundred people come back with bad bearings. I call BS. Maybe if you impact is weak as hell and not getting the torque high enough. The preload is set in these sealed bearing, you technically cannot get them too tight, but too loose will unload the preload and...
  16. J

    Airbag Light?

    You have to have it scanned, but not by a autozone. It has to be a snap-on or ford scanner, does it blink a certain amount before staying on? more than likely it is your clockspring, with an open drivers side air bag resistance code. my car had a open left airbag code, and in my particular...
  17. J

    well im stumped

    you said you had them erase the codes, what were the codes?? also a vacuum leak in a mark 8 will idle very uneasy and slow, not fast. Any ford with a MAF will run slow and lean with a leak, a ford with just a MAP sensor will run fast with no codes. like a 1988 f150.
  18. J

    Mechanic quoted 170$

    The lower control does not have out to come out for strut rod bushing replacement. I have never seen the frame to strut rod bushing go bad, but have changed many strut rod to control arm bushing, If tires are wearing fine and does not pull an alignment is not necessary. there is no...
  19. J

    My LS is acting up

    Glad you got it fixed how much did all this cost you to replace all of them before? Also I have cleaned hundreds of IAC with carb cleaner and now I use gasket remover. I figure if it is technically junk by fords standards, what do you have to lose? Also Ford says you cannot clean a MAF sensor...
  20. J

    opinions or advice

    In my experience as a mechanic ASE certified and a LS owner, backfiring thru the intake is a sign of being lean, Borrow a fuel pressure gauge with a long enough hose to read it at the windshield, fuel pressure should stay steady at WOT under a load, if it dips down the fuel filter or pump is...
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