Coolant Filter on Gas Motors
I've got a 4.6L in my 2000 Lincoln Town Car. Spent the morning saturday flushing the cooling system. I got 159k miles on this car and I don't think the T-stat or the coolant had ever been changed. ...
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Bryan, to be honest, I do not know what the factory fill was. This green was in the car when I got it nearly 50k miles ago. That's why I tried my best to get the system as clean as I could.
When I got this car there were a ton of things wrong with it and I've been trying to rectify the issues as I can afford to.
I despise the air ride suspension so when one of the airbags crapped out I swapped in coil springs in the rear. The Idle Air control valve went out before I got it and I fixed that. Replaced front brakes, replaced a valve cover gasket and valve cover grommets on the drivers side. Needs a front end rebuild now
Fun fact about this Panther...there is no transmission cooler in the radiator...there is a cooler that is an oil to air cooler that has both the transmission lines and the power steering lines plumbed in. I guess it's a combo cooler. If I ever set this big car up for towing I'd have to install a pretty large stacked plate cooler in line with the factory air cooler. Right now the cooler keeps the transmission at 175 ish....so it's doing a good job still.
Not really digging the combo cooler though. I Don't like the thought of the power steering fluid and the transmission fluid mixing if the cooler fails internally.
Need new head light assemblies, current ones are gone
The Michelin tires are rotting off the wheels even though the tread is great. Can't wait to get some Coopers on it...Michelins are not my favorites.
Love to swap in some 3.73 or 4.10's at some point in the future when I rebuild the rear end. Starting to really like this car as I get things fixed.
Thanks,
Jeremiah
When I got this car there were a ton of things wrong with it and I've been trying to rectify the issues as I can afford to.
I despise the air ride suspension so when one of the airbags crapped out I swapped in coil springs in the rear. The Idle Air control valve went out before I got it and I fixed that. Replaced front brakes, replaced a valve cover gasket and valve cover grommets on the drivers side. Needs a front end rebuild now
Fun fact about this Panther...there is no transmission cooler in the radiator...there is a cooler that is an oil to air cooler that has both the transmission lines and the power steering lines plumbed in. I guess it's a combo cooler. If I ever set this big car up for towing I'd have to install a pretty large stacked plate cooler in line with the factory air cooler. Right now the cooler keeps the transmission at 175 ish....so it's doing a good job still.
Not really digging the combo cooler though. I Don't like the thought of the power steering fluid and the transmission fluid mixing if the cooler fails internally.
Need new head light assemblies, current ones are gone
The Michelin tires are rotting off the wheels even though the tread is great. Can't wait to get some Coopers on it...Michelins are not my favorites.
Love to swap in some 3.73 or 4.10's at some point in the future when I rebuild the rear end. Starting to really like this car as I get things fixed.
Thanks,
Jeremiah
