My 85' Crown Vic

[WagonMan]

87 and older caps are the same for both Ford and Mercury. Lincoln had its own cap. WagonMan

[Toploader]

Sweet car. The non-A/C is interesting for sure. It's very clean. Me Likes.

Beautiful ride!!..........hell dudes the car is in Canada, who needs a/c?

[DerekTheGreat]

87 and older caps are the same for both Ford and Mercury. Lincoln had its own cap. WagonMan

That I know. I own an '88 Town Car with turbines.

I've been educated on the Ford & Mercury center cap though.

[1985crownvicltd85]

The car is currently awaiting a steering box from a 98-02 Panther, so I figured I better get the steering shaft ready.

[87gtVIC]

How was it removing the shaft out of the steering column? When I first did this I had such a hard time getting the steering shaft to slide out.

When I did the 5 speed swap, years later, it was easy to remove as I made sure to de-rust it and lube up the mating surfaces inside the steering column extension.

One thing that was mildly annoying both go a rounds was loosening and removing the bolt that lock the shaft to the steering column.

[gadget73]

getting mine apart involved use of a torch to get it moving. It was rusted solid, the column was not collapsible anymore. Unfortunately the heat de-sprung the spring in there so I had to take it back apart and bend that enough to keep the two shafts tight to one another.

[1985crownvicltd85]

It was stuck, I had to use some heat and penetrating fluid, now everything moves freely, the second headache was getting the rivets out.

[87gtVIC]

getting mine apart involved use of a torch to get it moving. It was rusted solid, the column was not collapsible anymore. Unfortunately the heat de-sprung the spring in there so I had to take it back apart and bend that enough to keep the two shafts tight to one another.

It was stuck, I had to use some heat and penetrating fluid, now everything moves freely, the second headache was getting the rivets out.

Oh yeah. Forgot to mention..heat was involved in my endeavor..so was penetrating fluids. Fun times.

[1985crownvicltd85]

I finally found a tilt column for my car, heres a picture of it installed. Its originally from an 86' Colony Park.

[87gtVIC]

Nice. Not sure how I cold deal with the car without the tilt.

I spy the 140 speedo too!

[1985crownvicltd85]

I know, it certainly makes a difference.

as for the speedo, its just a canadian speedo, where the primary reading is kilometres

[87gtVIC]

Oh yes would you look at that. I was excited.

Still better than what we got in the states.

[DerekTheGreat]

What, these cars weren't standard with tilt wheel? That's nuts... I mean, I could see '79 to '83 being that way but by '85? Hot damn.. On a related note, I saw watched the Big Lebowski yesterday. After the Dude's encounter with Malibu's police chief, he's riding in a '88-'89 LTD which doesn't have rear defrost. I've never seen a box post '87 without defrost...

[Mainemantom]

My 90 CV doesn't have rear defrost.

[DerekTheGreat]

Wow, was that car from Maine originally? What options does it have? Guess there's a plate where the defrost button would be?