1996 Lincoln Town Car, Executive: 4.6L, V8

(Rear) passenger-side air suspension bag is FUBAR but, driver's-side seems to be fully inflated. I turned the Air Susp. switch in the trunk, "off"-- hoping that it might slowly deflate on its own after a while, like the ones in my '99 Grand Marquis do but, about three weeks have passed w/ the switch "off", & it's still as inflated as ever!
I haven't the money to make the "air-to-spring conversion", nor the desire to, quite frankly-- as she's a '96 and has many other problems that take president.

SO, obviously, she's lop-sided at the moment, which creates somewhat of a safety/drivability issue, aside the fact that she looks REALLY "trashy" ridin' down the Boulevard all jacked-up on the left-front side!It would be nice just to deflate the other one, too--for the sake of symetry, so she'd at least appear level across the rear-- and not simply broken!

Is there safe/relatively easy way for a shade-tree mechanic to deflate the bag, or am I just SOL for the moment?

Thanks, in advance!

PS This issue is with my '96 Town Car, referenced at the TOP of the page-- not my Mercury, described at the page's bottom. That's just the "auto-signature" that comes-up, every time I post(!)

It's not safe to drive either way.

I've got an old bag I saved to use in a pinch. Sounds like it's for your pinch. It's not great but did hold air. You want it you can have it, just send me postage. cmasalvage@windstream.net (cmasalvage@windstream.net)
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Mike aka JYD