Engine Belts And Pulleys Problems of Lincoln Town Car

I lost control of the car when it hit ice at 9:20a- 1/25/2013 on I-94 near chesterton, in, spun around and crashed twice (front/rear) into the left concrete barrier parallel to the roadway. None of the 4 air bags deployed. I (age 77) and my passenger (age 83) wore seat belts that saved us. Car front smashed; car rear less damaged. Sides are o. K. . Isp report id:201300021141. Neither of us sought medical treatment. My chest still hurts! air bags would have helped had they deployed. Lake shore Ford, chesterton, in (219)787-8600 said car was "totaled. " isp officer weems reported that I may receive a ticket for "too fast for conditions. " tc failed the only air bag test it ever had. Seat belts did not. No other cars were involved on busy I-94. We were lucky!.

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I was driving from florida to south dakota and started up the first foothill of the ozark mountains about 35 miles west of jonesboro, arkansas on us 63. The cruise control had just started to increase the engine rpms when I heard a bang followed by what I thought was a belt or something thumping on the inside of the hood. Fortunately there was the 2nd entrance to a rest stop on us 63 immediately to my left and I pulled into the parking lot. Us 63 is a 2 lane highway with an occasional passing lane on some hills. It was also fortunate it happened at that point or I would have been in a difficult and dangerous position with little room to get safely off the highway with the narrow shoulders and rock cuts right up to the road. I opened the hood and restarted the engine in the parking lot. It was then I found something exploding on the passenger side of the engine. I could smell a lot of gas and shut the engine off immediately. I called aaa and was carried back to jonesboro on a flatbed about 3 hours later. I went to cavenaugh Ford the next morning and the problem was diagnosed as a spark plug blown out of the #3 cylinder. The repair with a full set of new plugs installed in addition to the bad cylinder cost $629 plus an additional $190 for towing. One additional plug on the driver side of the engine was also loose and a potential blowout. These plugs were factory original and have not been changed since the car was new. The mechanic told me the plugs were not properly torqued in at the factory which results in loosening of the threads in the head over time from the percussion in each cylinder. This appears to happen quite often on the 4. 6 and 5. 4 liter engines. I was lucky since many fires have also occurred because of these plugs blowing out of the engine.

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The intake manifold on my 1999 Lincoln Town Car is leaking coolant. My wife noticed a noise coming from under the hood, when I turned on her car to listen to the noise I could tell it was the fan belt squeaking. While the engine was running I opened the hood and I could see the coolant running out of the thermostat housing. I thought it was a bad thermostat so I bought a new one and replaced it myself. It wasn't until I turned the car on following the repairs that I saw the coolant coming from cracks in the manifold. I did not know of the Ford recalls 97m91, 99m01, 01m02 until I was researching to buy a new manifold on the internet. I bought this car back in 2000 and never was notified of the recall. This vehicle has 160,000 miles on it and still runs great, until now. I feel I should have been notified of this recall and Ford motor CO. Should reimburse for my expenses.

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During rainy weather, the serpentine belt fell off the engine. This caused the vehicle to stall.

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