yeah when are the heads supposed to come out anyways? hopefully they will be cheaper than the CNC'd heads.

 

Personally I'm thinking of saying "screw it" , declaring my mid-life crisis over, trading in the L and going back to this:



I had an LS400 for ten years and not a single thing went wrong with it. It was indestructable.

Here I am now, feeling the need for speed, drop 32K and am constantly afraid to drive it for fear it may implode. It's my daily driver and quite frankly I shouldn't have pause for thought every time I turn the key.

Sorry...had to rant.

 

I was reading this forum before I bought my '02. After I read alot of the negative threads I decided to pass on the L. One of my friends told me not to worry about it, all forums are bitch and moan sessions. I bought the L and have not had one problem in 7600 miles. I traded my '99 Lincoln Towncar, it had 47k miles and had only been to the dealer once, for a small rearend leak. I never went on the Lincoln Towncar forum, do they even have one? Maybe the climate control malfunctions often, the heated seats stay on during the summer, the sunroof sticks in the open position. I don't know what the common problems were with that car. I just know mine was fine. There are somethings that could have been done better on the L. No question the heads should have more threads and the fog lights are defective. But I still think people are over reacting to the problems others have had. People who have launched a plug or thrown a rod, are very much in the minority. Over 20,000 L's are on the road, if 1,000 have spit a plug, that is only 5%. I will not fear driving my L.

 

My plug on my stock block did not launch without warning. I had plenty of previous exhaust-leak noise warning, but did not get it tended to in time, which is my own fault.

While I should not have to routinely check to see if the plugs are backing themselves out, it was not just one day it shot out. I had an exhaust-leak noise that let me know somethign was wrong.

The day I blew it out, I was actually going to ask JDM to take a quick look at it (it blew out on my way down to their swap meet).

Dan

 

My heads are at the machine shop right now. When I get them back they will have 12 threads in each hole. I didn't launch a plug and I want it to stay that way.

 

NOW THATS THE WAY TO DO IT DON

Dam I wish I had your money

 

I don't have to worry about plug launching

Flame suit on!

 

AAAAAHHHHHH .......... go throw a rod.....

 

Hey...you stole my qoute

--wes

 

LoL

Hey maybe the 03's have 99 rods? I haven't heard of any 03's throwing rods yet! LoL!

 

Yes I did Wes,
Hope you don't mind

 

I just purchased a new 03L and I hope that this plug problem is overstated. If I had any idea of moding my truck the posts have made me think otherwise. I have been a chevy man most my life and the posts have made me wonder if I should have changed!!!

 

Reason being you do not want to wash the cylinder walls with raw fuel.The cylinder will not go dry it will still be lubed up with oil.When these new cars go into limp home mode they shut down the injector which will turn the cylinder into a air pump which in turn will help cool the engine for a short time.Hope this helps.You probally won't do any damage if you leave it plugged in for a short time(a few miles) but be safe.I also am paranoid about this and find myself listening everytime I pull into the car port.I wonder if my SVT dealer will charge me to check my plug while the truck is still under warranty.
Jeff T.

 

Hehehe...no worries man....I didn't actually gather the data....

I like to see peoples reactions to that.....most don't know the true numbers, they just see what's posted here. Which is obviously a very low % of the true #'s

--wes