My $600 1989 Lincoln Town Car Signature Series(Beverely)

[MattsLincoln]

well replaced the ignition switch today car starts up nice. saw a puddle of tranny fluid underneath and said to myself dont tell me it needs a new tranny filter and pan gasket. does felpro make a permadry gasket for these tranny pans. hopefully thats where its leaking cause i dont know where else it would be leaking from.

[MattsLincoln]

so next week when i change the tranny filter and pan gaskets i also want to replace the bushings for the tv lever and other bushings on the tranny that fail and cause the tranny to blow up on a sefi car.

which do i buy the plastic ones are there a better type. rockauto has the bushings new there plastic though.

[1990LTD]

http://www.lincolnsonline.com/tech/00052.html

[MattsLincoln]

http://www.lincolnsonline.com/tech/00052.html

thank you sir. what about the bushings underneath on the trans. i want to replace those too.

[sly]

No choke, ya think?

umm... I said that... try reading kthxbye.

also... there's no mechanical components to control a fast idle with EFI like the other two. the higher idle is controlled by the idle air control motor and the ECM. Thus, it is not something you can adjust on an EFI system... therefore... there is no need to worry about it. If it won't idle right when warm... then you need to tweak/clean stuff. If it idles right when warm, it should idle right when cold without any user input (pumping the gas pedal does nothing for EFI).

[gadget73]

the stuff underneath is metal. Nothing to fail. Its only the bushing at the throttle body thats a problem.

[86VickyLX]

doesnt work even warmed up/ im just gonna bypass it how do i do that. what do i plug the vacuum lines with.

the ac compressor does cycle in the mix position. doesnt cycle constantly but does cycle every few seconds. no difference in idle speed.

Remove it and put in a piece to bypass it. Then attach the two vacuum lines together. Cycling is turning on and off. And that's what it's supposed to do in defrost/mix position. You don't want to notice an idle change. It will adjust the idle on the fly, so if it doesn't drop down when the AC comes on, I wouldn't worry about it. As for the start up thing. It's supposed to idle high for at least 5 seconds. Longer if cold. Starting it up, a high idle, and then immediate drop to base idle sounds like something's not adjusted properly.

[MattsLincoln]

well jumped the connector going to the thermal blower lockout switch and now i have floor woohoo. blows nice and strong down on my feet. thanks guys.

[MattsLincoln]

what a bad week. today the cars power steering pump shit the bed. right now working on replacing it with a junkyard unit. this car must have been sitting very long. the fricken power steering hose line is corroded onto the nut that is on the pump. gonna have to end up cutting the line and replacing it fuck. hopefully the thread that goes into the steering shaft comes off easily cause i dont want to be replacing that whole steering box. grrr. car is undrivable now.

[gadget73]

the lines are always bad, and should never be recycled when the pump fails. The rubber turns to rock and it starts leaking at the crimps and often the parts seize together. Get a good set of line wrenches and spray some PB Blaster on the lines before trying to remove it from the pump. If you use shitty wrenches or not line wrenches, it will round off and you'll never get it apart. If you do not have a good wrench, just cut the line off right where it comes out of the steering box and use a 6 point socket on the nut to remove it.

[MattsLincoln]

the lines are always bad, and should never be recycled when the pump fails. The rubber turns to rock and it starts leaking at the crimps and often the parts seize together. Get a good set of line wrenches and spray some PB Blaster on the lines before trying to remove it from the pump. If you use shitty wrenches or not line wrenches, it will round off and you'll never get it apart. If you do not have a good wrench, just cut the line off right where it comes out of the steering box and use a 6 point socket on the nut to remove it.

well got the junkyard unit on there and it was bad. but when i took off the one from my car i noticed with all the fluid out of it, it had the suction noise still to it. the empty junkyard one when spinning the pulley it didnt make that suction noise maybe my pump was fine and then i noticed something else 87 and up panthers used a plastic piece of shit pulley well found out the middle of that pulley(the part you press onto the shaft) was spinning by it self while the outer was still so i said well that now this makes sense. if my belt was only spinning the pulley but not that piece of the pulley that the shaft goes onto that will explain why intermittent power steering. 86 and down used a metal pulley on the ps pump which was way better so what i am going to do is swap the metal pulley onto my old pump and see if it works. i have a hunch that it was the pulley failing that caused my power steering to be not working.

[MattsLincoln]

well power steering fixed. the pulley failed fuck plastic ps pulley's. pics to come i suggest all you with a plastic pulley on your ps pump to replace it you dont need a repeat of what happened to me today.


i believe they started plastic ps pulley's in 87 to present. i know 89 panthers had them.

[86VickyLX]

well power steering fixed. the pulley failed fuck plastic ps pulley's. pics to come i suggest all you with a plastic pulley on your ps pump to replace it you dont need a repeat of what happened to me today.


i believe they started plastic ps pulley's in 87 to present. i know 89 panthers had them.

I know the aeros used a metal pulley. That's what was on the '93.

[1987cp]

I have two '87s, and unless their A/C tensioner pulleys are unoriginal, they came with metal.

[MattsLincoln]

I have two '87s, and unless their A/C tensioner pulleys are unoriginal, they came with metal.

will only be the power steering pulley that is plastic who knows maybe it started in 88 i know 89 cars have them for a fact or my pulley is not original though it is a ford part though.