air ride

[Markviiiedrea]

All right, when I did my rotors the other day, I finally lowered my car. I did it before but it was just half a*s and the front was not even with the back. so I moved the sensors all the way in the back, and redrilled new holes for the front, put every thing back together and went for a drive.

Every thing was fine when I parked the car it dropped so it looked like it was sitting on top of the tires. Looked so sweeeeeet!

Well I got on the highway that night, the car did what it was suppose to and lowered at 55 well after it did that the check air ride came on the message center and when I slowed down the car wouldn't raise. Also when it is lowered like that I can't drive like that cause I'm only riding on the shocks and with cobra shocks it's really bouncy all the way down the road.

So I have to pull over restart the car and turn the air ride off so it dose not lower, I'm wondering is there a was to keep it from lowering at 55 or I'm I just going to have to take it apart again and rise it to that nasty stock height.

I know of other people that have there marks lowered that much and they don't have any problem. Any ideas?

Eric

 

[Sifrino3]

Lower at 55, thats cool!

 

[Markviiiedrea]

to bad the rides not, i look like a hoop-de wagon down I-95

 

[DOHCtor_Mark]

I hear that leaving the air ride switch in the "OFF" position will keep from lowering at 55mph.

 

[Markviiiedrea]

I hear that leaving the air ride switch in the "OFF" position will keep from lowering at 55mph.

thats the point, cuz when it lowers it dose not come back up when i slow down plus im still rideing on the shock . i just leave it off for now

 

[Cubster]

All right, when I did my rotors the other day, I finally lowered my car. I did it before but it was just half a*s and the front was not even with the back. so I moved the sensors all the way in the back, and redrilled new holes for the front, put every thing back together and went for a drive.

Every thing was fine when I parked the car it dropped so it looked like it was sitting on top of the tires. Looked so sweeeeeet!

Well I got on the highway that night, the car did what it was suppose to and lowered at 55 well after it did that the check air ride came on the message center and when I slowed down the car wouldn't raise. Also when it is lowered like that I can't drive like that cause I'm only riding on the shocks and with cobra shocks it's really bouncy all the way down the road.

So I have to pull over restart the car and turn the air ride off so it dose not lower, I'm wondering is there a was to keep it from lowering at 55 or I'm I just going to have to take it apart again and rise it to that nasty stock height.

I know of other people that have there marks lowered that much and they don't have any problem. Any ideas?

Eric[

 

[Markviiiedrea]

All right, when I did my rotors the other day, I finally lowered my car. I did it before but it was just half a*s and the front was not even with the back. so I moved the sensors all the way in the back, and redrilled new holes for the front, put every thing back together and went for a drive.

Every thing was fine when I parked the car it dropped so it looked like it was sitting on top of the tires. Looked so sweeeeeet!

Well I got on the highway that night, the car did what it was suppose to and lowered at 55 well after it did that the check air ride came on the message center and when I slowed down the car wouldn't raise. Also when it is lowered like that I can't drive like that cause I'm only riding on the shocks and with cobra shocks it's really bouncy all the way down the road.

So I have to pull over restart the car and turn the air ride off so it dose not lower, I'm wondering is there a was to keep it from lowering at 55 or I'm I just going to have to take it apart again and rise it to that nasty stock height.

I know of other people that have there marks lowered that much and they don't have any problem. Any ideas?

Eric[

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[djKale]

I'm guessing you went a little too low on your sensor lowering. Over the years I have found that cars respond differently to the sensor lowering mod. In most cases, the stance with the front sensor fully compressed is just about perfect, but it sounds like your car went too low and therefore it is causing an error at speed.

I would try raising it back up a half inch or so and see if that solves the problem. When you get an error, the system shuts down, that's why it will not raise back up. When you turn off the car and restart, it runs a new check to see if everything checks out. It sounds like you are getting a sensor out of range when it tries to lower at speed. How low did you go in back? It could be the rear sensor..(it is common to be able to lower the rear too much).

Kale

 

[Markviiiedrea]

the rear was moved all the way to one stop and the front was slid up to the top of the bracket and the bracket was moved up half an inch

 

[writchotte]

How do you raise and lower the air ride system. Mine are pushing the front to the max

Help me with a descriptive article please

 

[Markviiiedrea]

this explains it better than i can, any questions let me know http://www.lincolnvscadillac.com/tech/lincoln-mark-viii/Sensor-Lowering/index.htm

 

[Santo]

it sounds like you went a little too low on that...