92 Cont. Air Ride

[Raf39]

I have a 92 Lincoln Continental And have replaced the front struts at lease 4 times. Does anyone know what year Taurus will replace the original air struts. I am tired of the headach.

Thanks
Randy

[STINKINLINCOLN]

Trust me if you take out the lincoln air ride
the car sucks.... are you buying used air bags ?
they should not blow like that

but if you musk chang them i thing that it is a 94"

good luck

[96spyderman]

My wife's 94 had the rears leak so everytime ya parked it would drop.... replaced them with "strutmaster" coilovers and the ride is bout the same... better response, still has same "float".
All four for bout $450 or so....

[YUMAGUNNER]

replaced the entire system with kit from STRUTMASTER ($500). Works great, no more suspension problems and ride is still smooth

[STINKINLINCOLN]

I was told when you replace with strutmaster
the back end sits down lower then it should it this true ?
i just when and bought new one and have not looked back sence

[FordGrudge]

Am 3/4 done installing the monroe strut kit from the stock, Ford-retard-engineered Lincoln air-ride and I'll tell you it would be fairly easy if not for one troublesome bolt on each corner- the spindle pinch bolt-. The front coil overs need to be compressed about 6" and its a PAIN!

Why is I doin' this? Well, the rear bags (actually all four are like this) crack at the bottom fold and leak. It finally blew out while i was turning a corner at 15mph and the whole rear-end dropped immediately to the bump stops. GREAT IDEA, FORD-DORKS! I don't know what was ever wrong with leaf springs?!?!?!? My 79 Jeep 3/4 ton pick up has leafs and I've never done more than replace the front spring shackle bushings-20$! Monroe kit- 529$ for all four corners- from NAPA. Ford factory replacement parts for just the rear-end- 800$ The same thing will just happen again eventually. Sounds built to fail to me.

[STINKINLINCOLN]

Yea those pinch bolts are tricky you need to heat them up before you take them out I learned the hard way trust me heat them up take the extra time

[FordGrudge]

Yup, Liquid Wrench doesn't help much, but a hot wrench sure does. Live and learn. also getting the front strut assemblies into the knuckle w/ out totally dissasembling the front end is a thrash fest! I'm pooped- I got the right rear on yesterday, the left rear ready to pull last night. pulled it today, put the left rear strut assy in today, pulled the right front and assembled and installed the right front assy this afternoon. pant-pant. My back is killing me, and I'm about out of cursewords to hurl at the car, the engineers, the monroe engineers, their mothers, countries and dogs, and the situation in general. But I'm gaining on the thing, tommorrow I ought to be done by lunch...I hope, that's when my wife is due back in town after being gone for 3 days. THEN I'M SELLING THE CAR!!! WOOOOHOOOO!

[FordGrudge]

Anybody want a used 94 Lincoln Conny with monroe strut conversion?- $3000

[STINKINLINCOLN]

YOU COULD NOT PAY ME TO TAKE YOUR CAR AWAY
I dont think that I will every buy a lincoln cont again my air bags poped but I put new air bags in I have been told that the monroe strut's take the ride right out of the lincolns Now I dont know if that is true are not but still I would not use monroe
hey how did you get your spring up that is the hardest part of the whole thing are do you need to bring the spring up I hope you know what Im talking about ( the old air bag there is a loaded spring you need to take off and put back on it took me five hours to do the one side

[FordGrudge]

I have no clue what you are talking about.
But here's what I did:
rearend- flat airbag so no air pressure, detach the spindle from the suspension linkages, pull it down.
using spring compressor, compact the rear coil spring, assemble the strut assembly. Install strut assembly, inserting the top three studs into the mount thread the nuts on loosely. insert strut bottom into spindle pull spindle up- insert pinch bolt, tighten. tighten top 3 mounting studs nuts. reinstall the suspension arms and rod. jack up the rear arm lifting spindle/compressing strut. insert anti sway bar linkage rod (12" long) tighten rod end-nuts. put the wheel on, release and remove jack.

Front- loosen top 3 mount stood nuts. Remove antisway bar linkage (plastic 12" long) remove the pinch bolt, detach the ride leveler sensor arm (plastic 7") remove nut on bottom bar.

Remove the air fitting from the air tank- there will be pressure so watch out! compress the air strut by hand and remove it from spindle by knocking the spindle downwards while holding strut.
Use spring compressor, compress the front coil spring 6". assemble strut assembly (I didn't use the spacer for "91 and newer struts") remove compressor. push spindle down and rotate the top backwards, (counterclockwise on the right front, clockwise on the left front). Insert strut in hole in fender, thread on the three nuts loosly- just enough to hold the strut up. NOW you gorrilla the spindle around until you can get the bottom of the strut assembly into the spindle(rotation is the key) once the bottom of the strut is in the opening in the spindle, work it around and finally up to its position, this may need some slight hammer persuasion on the bottom of the strut mounted pinch bolt bracket to align the bottom edge of the bracket into the slit. Once that is accomplished, call all of your neighbors within a 1 mile radius and apologize for the harsh language, but since most of it will have been screamed at such a high pitch it would probably be indecypherable anyway, you could probably skip that part. Then reattach all the loose stuff (severing the stupid air nozzle fitting and you're done.

I'm wasting time right now because I don't want to go back outside and do the other front one- its a big hassle. (whimper, sniffle, whine.)

[FordGrudge]

pics for the operation (abbreviated) are here-
http://www.fsjworld.com/mygallery.te...401-album-6666

My other rides are in seperate albums in the gallery, feel free to check stuff out.

Wow, I just checked the link-it works, and looked at the date- Only 6 days from blow-out to near completion! Now if I could get the electronic part they sent with the kit wired properly (still no response from either tech support place) I can test drive it and put it for sale.

[STINKINLINCOLN]

ok I will take a look at your site all I ment by saying I will not Buy another lincoln is I do not like them no more and you were asking anyone if they wanted to buy your lincoln

[STINKINLINCOLN]

nice sites good info it brings back alot of unwanted memories lol

[FordGrudge]

pain is a GOOD teacher, eh?