Engine Exhaust System Problems of Ford Crown Victoria

I had been driving 250 miles or so and drove down a long winding incline, as the road flattened out I heard a noise from the engine compartment. The noise sounded like a hole in the first part of the exhaust system. I found a safe place to pull over and turned off the vehicle. There was a slight odor of natural gas as this vehicle is fueled with natural gas. After the odor passed, I opened the hood to find that the #2 ignition coil mount was broken, and the coil and spark plug assembly were loose in the spark plug well. My initial thought was the the spark plug had loosened and ejected. I attempted to re-install the spark plug but the threads in the cylinder head were ineffective. The spark plug had blown out of the cylinder head. I have subsequently found out that this is not an uncommon defect for these Ford engines. The repair involved reaming and tapping the spark plug hole and placing an insert in the hole. The spark plug coil had to be replaced too. The repair cost was $450 and the repair shop warned that this may happen again. This is a design defect that could potentially be dangerous under different circumstances. If I was not able to stop in a safe place fairly quickly, there could have been more fuel air mixture accumulation under the hood and since the spark plug was still operative, an ignition source was present too.

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Catalytic converter rattles after 54,000 miles found Ford bulletin on problem. Should be replaced by Ford.

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While driving I suddenly found it very hard to turn the steering to the right. Using considerable force I was able to make the turn - but only just. Investigation by myself later showed that the heat shield from the driver's side exhaust manifold had fallen off due to corrosion around the two 10mm bolts that hold it on. It had then fallen onto the steering shaft and must have wedged against something when I was trying to turn. It was still on top of the steering shaft when I opened the hood after driving a mile home (very carefully). Had someone been driving with less experience or strength than myself this failure could very easily have resulted in an accident as there was no warning at all.

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Crown victoria 2000 has a crack intake manifold resulting in a leak coolant which is going inside of plug #8 causing a malfunction and car start shaking loosing power.

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Gas fumes got inside the car. Owner blacked out and hit another vehicle. Deale r has seen vehicle, and cant find the problem.

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