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Hey all,
my wife bought a 96 Linc-Con last year, been running fine until now: a few days she got home from work and the car’s air ride remained in a high position except for the front driver’s side, which vented to factory (low?) setting.
I’ve googled the Lincoln air ride problem/topic but haven’t found any postings discussing this particular situation.
Any simple, inexpensive fixes? (aside from buying a conversion kit from StrutMast*r?)
Thanks,
Jon
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So you are saying that the one side of the car returns to its normal passenger entry/exit position, which is lower than the position the car rises to when you are driving it?
It’s stuck at a high ride height at all three corners except front driver’s side, which has vented back to normal/factory ride height.
From what I have googled, sounds like the solenoids aren’t venting, but just thought it’s weird that they all went at once (except for front driver’s side).
I don’t know diddly about computerized cars, and figured it’s probably an error code or something. All the airbags seem to be in good shape,
have been working fine until now. I’m hoping we can simply replace the solenoids (can’t afford conversion kit or new air spring bags)Can you manually select different ride heights, or is the system fully automatic?
Running through any manual selections, and watching what happens at each corner, might shed some light on the issue.
Sorry for the delayed response.
Trying the air ride menu selections got nothing. I found a set of Suncore conversion springs on sale (new) on their ebay store
and installed them (P.I.T.A.!!) : all the youtube vids I watched were for various years other than ’96, and showed the lower spring seat coming out easypeazy after you take out the 3 bolts: NOT on our ’96…the bolt heads are on the inside of the channel, and wouldn’t come out nowaynohow regardless of the lube and hammering I did; had to borrow a spring compressor set to get the springs in.
So now… I used some silicone sealant & screws and plugged the old rear air lines (to the now-gone vent solenoids)
but still no reaction from the compressor, and now the front driver’s bag isn’t inflating (cuss bang head cuss some more)
**A side note on the Suncore conversion kit: it arrived with a broken spring isolator which Suncore offered to replace but I found a set of Moog isolators for $10 locally the next day. My real beef with Suncore’s kit is that the upper spring perch plates have “ears” that are supposed to fit into the subframe, but they were too high; I had to grind 1/4″ off the tops before they’d seat properly and fit without rubbing on the frame. Had I tried to install them as is, the springs wouldn’t have seated right and the frame & perches would have experienced undue wear and stress.
Poorly engineered (at least, for the ’96 LincCont, I don’t know if they fit other years better)
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