Ken Nevins
New LVC Member
Hello All:
I did make one earlier posting when we were having trouble with "flash" overheating on our '94 Mark 8. This beautiful car is my wife's pet, so when the "rods started knockin" (as in the Hot Rod Lincoln song), we just had to find another engine for it! Do you blame us? We found a brand new engine that was destined to be a proving ground "mule" but was never used until our mechanic unwrapped the factory packaging! In the process of sorting out several other problems with the car, we used up our short 90 day waranty on the engine. Shortly thereafter it started spiking the temperature whenever we would start it up and drive it a ways. Even though it would always come down (the temp.) we were worried and had a check made for combustion gasses present in the cooling water which came up positive! Oh-oh, what now - horror storries about the difficulty of working on the double-knocker engine - nobody wants too! Well, I thought, I haven't anything to loose by trying a new thermostat, which I did, with intially the same result. However, by persistently going back and carefully re-bleeding the cooling system, I seemed to have cured the problem! The engine is tricky to get all the air out, and air don't work very well as a coolant! Now we have our fingers crossed!
We still have some niggling problems such as: Very Dim low beams (but not brights?), Also, she sinks down on her "knees" and prays to Allah, if you leave her undriven a few days. She just wants to GO! And GO she does, with her new engine! I would never suffer her the indignity of taking her to the drag strip, but as an old drag-racer, she feels like low 15's to me! Sh! don't tell my wife I've been out burning rubber! Yeeha!
Best Regards, Ken ^_^
I did make one earlier posting when we were having trouble with "flash" overheating on our '94 Mark 8. This beautiful car is my wife's pet, so when the "rods started knockin" (as in the Hot Rod Lincoln song), we just had to find another engine for it! Do you blame us? We found a brand new engine that was destined to be a proving ground "mule" but was never used until our mechanic unwrapped the factory packaging! In the process of sorting out several other problems with the car, we used up our short 90 day waranty on the engine. Shortly thereafter it started spiking the temperature whenever we would start it up and drive it a ways. Even though it would always come down (the temp.) we were worried and had a check made for combustion gasses present in the cooling water which came up positive! Oh-oh, what now - horror storries about the difficulty of working on the double-knocker engine - nobody wants too! Well, I thought, I haven't anything to loose by trying a new thermostat, which I did, with intially the same result. However, by persistently going back and carefully re-bleeding the cooling system, I seemed to have cured the problem! The engine is tricky to get all the air out, and air don't work very well as a coolant! Now we have our fingers crossed!
We still have some niggling problems such as: Very Dim low beams (but not brights?), Also, she sinks down on her "knees" and prays to Allah, if you leave her undriven a few days. She just wants to GO! And GO she does, with her new engine! I would never suffer her the indignity of taking her to the drag strip, but as an old drag-racer, she feels like low 15's to me! Sh! don't tell my wife I've been out burning rubber! Yeeha!
Best Regards, Ken ^_^
