Fixed it Myself. Crown Vic Front End

pics or it didn't happen you waste of space

Whatever man. Sorry this threads not about fucking some ho. Plenty of those for you to comment on.

2001 crown vic owner here.. great car

Congrats!!
Ive been there.

Yep. Plenty of room, plenty of power and good gas mileage. 02 here.

Was worried I didn't have enough tools but it worked out. I did borrow the spring compressor from the local auto parts store.

Did you have a conventional shock/strut system or do you have a self-leveling suspension system. If the latter, then you'd have to convert to conventional system. Once a conventional system, then it's easy...

It has shocks and separate coil springs on the front. I believe the person I bought it from had converted the back suspension to coils and shocks.

DIY is always best.

It's not hard to do coil over springs if you have a lift. Doing it without one requires some special 'Dotson' engineering with the jacks to get the vehicle high enough off of the ground.

At least in my experience.


Congratulations, you saved yourself some cash, and did it yourself. Nothing beats this combo.

Cody, have you got the 'big conveyor' that we repaired around three years ago ready for the transfer between the 'ships'?

We are reaching the time when we need to make sure it is in good order.

Crown Vic, town cars and grand Marquis FTW!! Not too bad to do. The evap system pisses me off tho. You can get 300k + of comfortable, powerful, stylish miles out of those beasts.

Plus you can lift the entire body off and do all kinds of cool things. I have seen crown vics used to make everything from 60's f-100 restorations to doubles for the general Lee that they used in the dukes of hazard.

it gets great gas mileage
got a shop in town that works on the cop cars (they still have vics)
great shop, said they could keep mine going forever



Last Edited by Dogfood™ on 08/12/2019 11:34 PM