Well I'm new here, well not really I've been on a while just reading up on these Lincoln LS's!
Anyway thought I'd introduce myself and my LS to everyone.
Not much to tell about myself, I'm a old fart! Presently I own a Red 91 Mustang GT convertible 347 stroker, 5 speed, a 95 probe that I'm needing a engine for. 05 Ford Expedition Limited, and of course the 00 LS. I'm a ford guy all the way, brainwashed early in live since my dad was service manager for the local ford dealership, our back yard was the new car delivery area. The transport would pull into the alley behind our house and unload all the new cars into our backyard! We lived right across the street from the dealership!
I bought the LS out of a junkyard for $800, it was dirty and neglected. They were asking $1200, tranny was bad, engine was in need of help! Thanks to the manual shift mode I was able to drive it home.
I have slowly started getting her back up into good shape. Took the interior completely out, cleaned everything and reinstalled it. After a good clean up I started driving it back and forth to work. I had 2, 3, 4 and 5th gears, no reverse and no 1st gear. It did ok.
Since then I have change the transmission, replaced the secondary chain and tensioner on the right side. Pulled both valve covers just to check the other ones. The surprising part was how clean the engine is on the inside. Looks like it had been very well maintained. No sludge at all. I took my borescope and looked down each side at the primary chains and tensioners and they looked good. I do need two coils, cylinders 2 and 4 are showing misfires. The missing is most noticeable at idle.
I've ordered a new clockspring since my horn does not work, airbag light stays on, radio control buttons are all out of whack, cruise will work sometimes.
I have one issue that is weird, sometimes after a few minutes of driving the engine shows to overheat, goes into limp mode. By my scanner in monitor mode it shows the temp to be around 204, one time when I checked it when it showed to be over heating it was 214. When this happens I can put the car into neutral and turn the key off for a few seconds and restart the engine and it's stopped over heating instantly. Something else that seems weird about this problem is it seems to do it when the ambient temperature is below 50, the last couple of days we've been in the mid to high 60's and it hasn't done it any.
Next is I don't have heat. A/C works great but no heat. I figured it was the blend door, then I read (I think on one of the post here) that our cars don't have blend doors. So I'm still trying to figure this one out.
I have some thumping noise when I hit bumps, sounds like it's coming from the right front. I've check the swaybar bushings they seem to be fine. The upper ball joints may be my problem. I know the rubber seal is damage on both upper ball joints, and it worst on the right side. I figure the upper control arm has to be replaced, am I right on this? When I do it I was planning on doing lower ball joints too. Looks like you can just replace the ball joint and not the whole lower control arm, is this correct.
I have another hood and a right front fender for it, just not going to replace those untill I get all the mechanical stuff fixed and I'm ready to sand her down to paint her. Plus I need to find a rear bumpercover.
Anyway thought I'd introduce myself and my LS to everyone.
Not much to tell about myself, I'm a old fart! Presently I own a Red 91 Mustang GT convertible 347 stroker, 5 speed, a 95 probe that I'm needing a engine for. 05 Ford Expedition Limited, and of course the 00 LS. I'm a ford guy all the way, brainwashed early in live since my dad was service manager for the local ford dealership, our back yard was the new car delivery area. The transport would pull into the alley behind our house and unload all the new cars into our backyard! We lived right across the street from the dealership!
I bought the LS out of a junkyard for $800, it was dirty and neglected. They were asking $1200, tranny was bad, engine was in need of help! Thanks to the manual shift mode I was able to drive it home.
I have slowly started getting her back up into good shape. Took the interior completely out, cleaned everything and reinstalled it. After a good clean up I started driving it back and forth to work. I had 2, 3, 4 and 5th gears, no reverse and no 1st gear. It did ok.
Since then I have change the transmission, replaced the secondary chain and tensioner on the right side. Pulled both valve covers just to check the other ones. The surprising part was how clean the engine is on the inside. Looks like it had been very well maintained. No sludge at all. I took my borescope and looked down each side at the primary chains and tensioners and they looked good. I do need two coils, cylinders 2 and 4 are showing misfires. The missing is most noticeable at idle.
I've ordered a new clockspring since my horn does not work, airbag light stays on, radio control buttons are all out of whack, cruise will work sometimes.
I have one issue that is weird, sometimes after a few minutes of driving the engine shows to overheat, goes into limp mode. By my scanner in monitor mode it shows the temp to be around 204, one time when I checked it when it showed to be over heating it was 214. When this happens I can put the car into neutral and turn the key off for a few seconds and restart the engine and it's stopped over heating instantly. Something else that seems weird about this problem is it seems to do it when the ambient temperature is below 50, the last couple of days we've been in the mid to high 60's and it hasn't done it any.
Next is I don't have heat. A/C works great but no heat. I figured it was the blend door, then I read (I think on one of the post here) that our cars don't have blend doors. So I'm still trying to figure this one out.
I have some thumping noise when I hit bumps, sounds like it's coming from the right front. I've check the swaybar bushings they seem to be fine. The upper ball joints may be my problem. I know the rubber seal is damage on both upper ball joints, and it worst on the right side. I figure the upper control arm has to be replaced, am I right on this? When I do it I was planning on doing lower ball joints too. Looks like you can just replace the ball joint and not the whole lower control arm, is this correct.
I have another hood and a right front fender for it, just not going to replace those untill I get all the mechanical stuff fixed and I'm ready to sand her down to paint her. Plus I need to find a rear bumpercover.
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