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20004 Crown Victoria - troubles starting
Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 10:37 am
by Passt
My current cruiser is an 04 Crown Vic. When it's parked overnight, or for a majority of my shift, it literally takes 40 seconds - 1 minute to start. I have to crank it and let it turn over for 20ish seconds and turn it back off. Then a few seconds later when I start it, it sputters and kicks and finally starts up. If it is turned off and back on after a few minutes, it starts fine. The retards that work on our cruisers continue to fail to fix this problem. I don't know if they're just not looking for it or what, but it's pissing me off now. Any ideas what I should look for? I'm going to fix this bitch myself.
Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 4:22 pm
by 60trim
Do you possibly have a leak in your fuel system? I know that when I was boosted and had a return line, it took my car around 2 to three times to start because I lost fuel pressure due to the return line. Had to prime the system to get enough presure. Starter maybe? Fuel Pump? Evil little chipmunks that are in your engine? Could be any of these...except the chipmunks.
Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 11:29 pm
by Passt
60trim wrote:Do you possibly have a leak in your fuel system? I know that when I was boosted and had a return line, it took my car around 2 to three times to start because I lost fuel pressure due to the return line. Had to prime the system to get enough presure. Starter maybe? Fuel Pump? Evil little chipmunks that are in your engine? Could be any of these...except the chipmunks.
Yea it's gonna be something with the fuel system I'm thinking. When I try to fill her up, I have to constantly wait for the fuel to go into the tank? It's as if the tank is full the entire time I'm trying to fill it.... the gas pump clicks every 3 seconds as if it were full, even when it's empty. I don't know what happened to it, I haven't had the car for the duration of it's life.
Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 11:40 pm
by Andpto
man cops must abuse the shit out of those crown vics.. every time see one by me the cop is either flooring it or atleast hauling ass
Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 1:31 am
by MyNeonSaysHi
Crown Victs are POS. We have a fleet of them that come into my work that we have to do full inspections on. I would hate to be a cop and have to drive one. They have a ton of electrical gremlins would I ahve found out personally on a number of them.
Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 1:38 am
by Adionik
20004...man my car is getting old
Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 3:22 pm
by Swordfish2Cowboy
Adionik wrote:20004...man my car is getting old
I was thinking the same thing.
Re: 20004 Crown Victoria - troubles starting
Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 10:03 pm
by own3d5974
Passt wrote:My current cruiser is an 04 Crown Vic. When it's parked overnight, or for a majority of my shift, it literally takes 40 seconds - 1 minute to start. I have to crank it and let it turn over for 20ish seconds and turn it back off. Then a few seconds later when I start it, it sputters and kicks and finally starts up. If it is turned off and back on after a few minutes, it starts fine. The retards that work on our cruisers continue to fail to fix this problem. I don't know if they're just not looking for it or what, but it's pissing me off now. Any ideas what I should look for? I'm going to fix this bitch myself.
so what your saying is if i see you doing radar on the side of the road i should throw something at the car while speeding off recklessly?
Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 10:09 pm
by Wenuden
^ awesome sig!
And fuck tha po-lice. That is all.
Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 3:00 pm
by Fuzzyneon
they dont have service manuals for 20004 vehicles yet sorry (dont hurt me lol jk)