smurph98gt
New LVC Member
Hey everyone, first post here!
Anyway, I'm picking up my first Town Car (thats not a rental) tomorrow for a pretty good price. Theres only one problem.. it doesn't start. Just from turning it over I can tell its the starter, it just grinds and never actually turns over. Have any of you done this yet? I know where the starter is on my 5.0 Mustang, but never changed it... is it much different on the TC?
The guy I'm buying it from says the car didn't start for his wife, he went and tried, and it started up. He drove it to get some gas, and it died. He couldn't get it started, and then it started making the grinding noise, so he thinks whatever was wrong, caused the stall and no-start, and he killed the starter by trying to get it started.
When my mustangs fuel pump primes, I can hear a brief, slight, whistling noise, and then it stops. On the TC I heard a slight buzzing, almost whooshing sound that was pretty constant. Is it SUPPOSED to sound like that, or could that be the initial reason why it died? I'm wondering if he even had any gas in it at all.
Thats it.. any help would be greatly appreciated, even if its to pass on some other Lincoln Town Car sites so that I can learn more about this car..
Thanks everyone!
-Ronald
Anyway, I'm picking up my first Town Car (thats not a rental) tomorrow for a pretty good price. Theres only one problem.. it doesn't start. Just from turning it over I can tell its the starter, it just grinds and never actually turns over. Have any of you done this yet? I know where the starter is on my 5.0 Mustang, but never changed it... is it much different on the TC?
The guy I'm buying it from says the car didn't start for his wife, he went and tried, and it started up. He drove it to get some gas, and it died. He couldn't get it started, and then it started making the grinding noise, so he thinks whatever was wrong, caused the stall and no-start, and he killed the starter by trying to get it started.
When my mustangs fuel pump primes, I can hear a brief, slight, whistling noise, and then it stops. On the TC I heard a slight buzzing, almost whooshing sound that was pretty constant. Is it SUPPOSED to sound like that, or could that be the initial reason why it died? I'm wondering if he even had any gas in it at all.
Thats it.. any help would be greatly appreciated, even if its to pass on some other Lincoln Town Car sites so that I can learn more about this car..
Thanks everyone!
-Ronald