2008 Ford Crown Victoria P71 SAP

[95escahoe]

Haven’t updated this in awhile. Here’s a pic of the trunk in the daylight with the tray.

Happened to catch a current CSP FPIU at a stop light kinda cool to get a pic of their current ride while being in a former CSP Vic.

I discovered the passenger side front window and the driver rear window didn’t work from the driver door so tested out a few things and put money on it being a bad driver door switch so I picked up that switch and the others (mirror and door locks) and swapped them out and everything worked like it should.

 

[95escahoe]

Installed these window bars I had sitting around, held in by two screws at the top and slips over the door panel.

Cleaned up that used leather steering wheel and installed the new buttons and correct wiring harness for adding the volume button.

 

[95escahoe]

Which brings to where I’m at currently. So awhile back I mentioned the driver-side exhaust manifold had a couple broken studs and was leaking so my buddy has a shop and does all my work that I don’t want to do so brought it there for him the pull the manifold and install a new one along with gaskets and new hardware well of course 4 snapped off and there next to impossible to get to with the front suspension on the Vic and the frame on an F150 or Expedition you can pull the fender liner but with the Vics that isn’t an option so the 3 that snapped off below the block it ended up being easier to pull the motor so the holes didn’t get messed up drilling them out since you’d basically be drilling them blind. So pulled the motor yesterday got it ready to go for Monday and while it’s out gonna do a few other things: passengers side manifold/gasket/hardware, water pump, oil pan gasket, oil filter adapter gasket, and since you have to pull the intake to pull the motor there’s two holes under that you use I’m throwing on a new OEM Ford intake I’ve had sitting around along with new plugs/coil boots, silicone coolant hoses and with the motor out there’s a power steering line that would have been a pain to replace so replacing that too, definitely wasn’t something I expected but ended up being able to tackle some things I wanted to do.

 

[Fless]

While you're in there....

 

[95escahoe]

Got the engine almost back together just waiting on a few parts here’s some pics.

 

[Tonyrodz]

Got the engine almost back together just waiting on a few parts here’s some pics.

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How was it when you pulled it apart? Or when you dropped the pan? Sludge? While it was out I would've beefed it up some.

 

[95escahoe]

How was it when you pulled it apart? Or when you dropped the pan? Sludge? While it was out I would've beefed it up some.

Didn’t really pull it apart did both exhaust manifolds, oil pan gasket, front and rear main seal, oil adapter gasket, water pump, silicone radiator hoses, oil cooler hoses, power steering hoses, new intake plugs and boots and a few other odds and ends no sludge in the pan it was clean no leaks pretty much did everything else since it was out, if I had known I’d have ended up pulling the motor I probably would have done long tubes, always could down the road since there’s all new hardware would be easy to take the manifolds off

 

[95escahoe]

Got the car back this past Saturday here’s a few pics. Here’s a list of all the work done: exhaust manifolds and gaskets both sides, o2 sensors, EGR tube, intake, plugs, boots, injector o-rings, coolant tube intake under intake, silicone radiator hoses, oil pan gasket, front and rear main seal, oil adapter gasket, power steering hoses, oil cooler hoses, knock sensor, cylinder head temp sensor, oil pressure sensor, water pump, serpentine belt, belt tensioner, leather wrapped steering wheel, I’ll have to get some updated exhaust vids now that the manifold isn’t leaking.

 

[Tonyrodz]

Got the car back this past Saturday here’s a few pics. Here’s a list of all the work done: exhaust manifolds and gaskets both sides, o2 sensors, EGR tube, intake, plugs, boots, injector o-rings, coolant tube intake under intake, silicone radiator hoses, oil pan gasket, front and rear main seal, oil adapter gasket, power steering hoses, oil cooler hoses, knock sensor, cylinder head temp sensor, oil pressure sensor, water pump, serpentine belt, belt tensioner, leather wrapped steering wheel, I’ll have to get some updated exhaust vids now that the manifold isn’t leaking.

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Almost like new under the hood now. Now that it's back together can you notice the difference? Does it run a little better?

 

[95escahoe]

Almost like new under the hood now. Now that it's back together can you notice the difference? Does it run a little better?

The EGR tube was cracked in two spots and had been leaking for some time which was causing a jumpy idle and since that’s behind the engine really had no clue it was that. It runs great now the plugs weren’t really that bad it looked like they had been replaced before and doing the intake resolves any issues down the road since they are known to crack. Going to be interested in seeing if there’s any mpg increase wasn’t getting bad mileage before but might get slightly better now.

 

[95escahoe]

A few months back I discovered that the civilian Crown Vics and the MGM had a hood mat so I picked up the clips that hold the mat on hoping I’d find one since you can no longer get them at the dealer. So a few weeks back I saw a post on FB Marketplace for someone selling airbags and other miscellaneous parts off an 06 MGM so I inquired about the hood mat and the guy had turned the MGM into an enduro car so he basically said if you want it come get it so over my winter break I was able to grab it clean it up and throw it on. I also threw on the engine cover a few weeks back.

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After:

 

[Tonyrodz]

A few months back I discovered that the civilian Crown Vics and the MGM had a hood mat so I picked up the clips that hold the mat on hoping I’d find one since you can no longer get them at the dealer. So a few weeks back I saw a post on FB Marketplace for someone selling airbags and other miscellaneous parts off an 06 MGM so I inquired about the hood mat and the guy had turned the MGM into an enduro car so he basically said if you want it come get it so over my winter break I was able to grab it clean it up and throw it on. I also threw on the engine cover a few weeks back.

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It's the simple things.

 

[95escahoe]

I had this ticket light sitting around finally got around to installing it, it’s the slimmer version and full LED which the old one was but it was bigger, this looks cleaner and is brighter in both settings too and these ones are harder to come by.

 

[89Suburban]

Nice work!

 

[95escahoe]

Haven’t updated this in awhile. A few months back I picked up an upgraded headlight harness it draws power directly from the battery so you get the full voltage at the headlight connectors, without the harness the power goes through the LCM and there’s some voltage loss, with the upgraded harness I can run higher voltage bulbs still running the brightest sylvania bulbs right now ultra iirc. I’ll get some night shots of the highs and lows latter this week.

 

[95escahoe]

Found some Whelen trunk lights on Facebook Marketplace, it was something that Whelen made for NYSP threw them on for off-road use to go along with the other lights there’s a momentary switch on the driver-side one to put it in low power mode or back to high power and I tucked a switch to turn them off and on under that light and ran all the wiring in loom through the trunk lid for a clean install and grabbed power from the trunk mounted police power point.

 

[95escahoe]

Last week I dropped off the car at my mechanic to have a few things taken care of. The car had the original shocks/struts so picked up some Motorcraft replacements along with all new hardware since it’s a Northeast car, had the two rear 02 sensors replaced since one would set off a code every now and then, had the exhaust realigned the passenger side tip had moved it a lil bit I loosened up the clamp and couldn’t get the tip to move, and had the upper control arms replaced due to the bushings being shot and it’s cheaper to just throw new ones in vs doing those and the balljoints, well it was going good till they got to the passenger front strut the coil spring had cracked and due to where it was you couldn’t see it till it was pulled apart so had to get a set of new front springs and being the police ones are different no Ford dealer had them locally so got them shipped from Detroit. The car rides so much better now might do the rear springs down the road the car still sits level I thought that maybe the front would be higher now from the new springs. Here’s some pics from this past weekend and as you can see I added some clear plate lights which need to get wired in hopefully wire them up one morning this week before work, and I finally found that DARE plate I was looking for too.

 

[95escahoe]

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[89Suburban]

Nice!

 

[Miami-Dade]

Nice work as usual Brett!!