Lincoln LS Fail Thread

Spent an hour measuring alternator output and swapping alternators, only to realize I left the meter in AC mode.
"Hey, aren't those readings a little weird?"
"Nah, just bought the damn thing. Must be right."

*sigh*
Buddy was real happy to start over, though. He was the one under the car.

Didn't attach drain lines to the tranny cooler very well when doing a fluid exchange, leading to a huge mess on the driveway and sprayed oil all over the inner bumper. Wife gracefully didn't look at that part of the driveway for a week.

Better fails on the Cutlass, including dropping a driveshaft at 50mph (rear ujoint, thank god), breaking tranny case due to engaging at too high rpm due to performing a "highly recommended" q-jet mod.....
 
I replaced my tstat, put everything back together, and started to refill the system from the top of the coolant tree. Couldn't figure out why it would not stay topped off. Then I heard the draining from under the car. Draincock was closed. I could not figure out for the life of me why it was leaking. I took it all apart, and saw that I had not aligned the check valve on the tstat, so the housing was not fitting tight. rotated it 180 degrees to line up, and everything was fixed. Turned a half hour job into a 2 hour job. Wouldn't have been so frustrated if it wasn't wintertime and freezing out.
 
Wow, the worst I did was installed my ebay wing on a little off to one side. I took it off and put it back on.
 
I gassed it too hard around a wet curve and played bumper cars off the guard rails till I slid down a hill and across 3 lanes of freeway. Wish I had pics.
 
FASTLLS said:
What was done to the car?
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It happened at night so everyone who looked at it in the dark (the cops + me) thought it looked mostly ok. But in the daylight you saw the real damage - I twisted the frame a ton, there were bows and dents all across the side panels and the roof. I never saw that kind of damage done to a car before.

Right fender was like 1/2" higher than the left fender when looking at the trunk lid. Had like 6 individual dimples in the roof alone. Stress bends on all the pillars. I slid down a hill sideways, passenger side first, before I shot over the freeway, that was the killer!

The kicker was I had literally just got it back that day from my mechanic after spending a couple weeks and a couple thousand bucks of work. (plug wells filled with oil, bad ETCB, the usual and more!)
 
FASTLLS said:
Holy hell.. lol.. You need to learn some better drifting skills.. :shifty:
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The only thing I could think of that maybe would've helped minimize the damage is if I stepped on the gas when I first started sliding around, instead of the break. At least if I got a little traction maybe I could've prevented the slide down the hill.

But also, who designs guardrails that only cover half of the curve... :p

Drifting skills wouldn't help much, needed more time in the bumper car park.
 
FASTLLS said:
Hard to rip the intake apart?
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Um... Not hard but I wouldn't call my collection of tools "complete". If you have a decent set of tools or a shop its really not bad at all. I surely wont dig back into it until I have a supercharger to put on there though.

So... someone hurry up and make a kit that I can buy.
 
I'm going as fast as I can.. :p

I have the supercharger and the basic design made.. I need some flanges made by the machine shop and they are drawing plans.. I am also going to run a water to air intercooler
 
I need a damn heater though.. It's cold out there.. I've been trying to use the salamander but kerosene and in-closed space = huge headaches..
 
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