1992 Lincoln Mark VII

Looks good! My MkVII want just went through the roof.

In reply to BlueInGreen44:

Glad I could help.

Now, after all this time suddenly there's a battery drain that's killing my battery overnight. WHAT IN THE berkeleyING berkeley!!!!!!!!!

Car - "Oh, you're making plans for Autocross next year? Allow me to play you the song of my people."

Kind of pointless to have a weekend/backup car when it whinges and refuses to be reliable...

Apparently if I put a functioning bulb in the air bag warning light socket it will suck the battery dry. Without a bulb in the socket I get to listen to 5 sets of 5 beeps every time I start my car.

At least (I think) I was able to isolate and eliminate the latest weird Lincoln problem.

Sounds like your next solution is to hunt down that beeper and kill it.

In reply to chiodos:

I had considered that but, honestly I'm a bit scared to completely pull the dash. Weaksauce, I know. :)

Well, I just got home from work. After having pulled the bulb I drove the Lincoln and was rewarded with a freshly drained battery at the end of my shift.

So, after I got home I pulled all but the amp bulb in the warning light cluster and unplugged the mystery box to the right of the radio.

We'll see if it's dead in the morning.

Dead.

The berkeley is this? It has a plug going to it but nothing coming out.

It lives in here, on the passenger side of the radio:

I googled the part number and it is called a "constant control relay".

That helps exactly not at all.

Nevermind, it's related to the A/C somehow.

Looks like I have SRS fault code 22:

Safing Sensor Output Circuit - Shorted to Battery Voltage

That would explain the drain. Now the hunt begins for the safing sensor, whatever the berkeley that is.

One of the worst parts of older cars with a lot of electronics is chasing stupid issues. Throw a kill switch in and or gut it! Its a bit nice for that treatment but yet another perk to cars with manual every thing lol.

The safing sensor is essentially a safety for the air bag system. It protects the bag(s) from deploying due to an electrical short. The safing sensor is used to verify the force of a collision and complete the air bag(s) deployment.

On a MKVII it is below the left kick panel.

Thank you! I was going to begin gingerly probing the inner workings of the dash. I'm glad I don't have to open that can of worms!

Here's a funny; last night I was looking through craigslist, as I'm sure everyone else here does on an almost daily basis, and I found a guy that's parting out an '89 Mustang GT. There's my 1 5/16" front sway bar!

I could also get my grubby little paws on some sportier front seats (O.E. FoxStang), if I want to go ahead and commit to STX, which, honestly is not likely. I'll be enough of an underdog in H Street.

So now I just have to get the latest electrical gremlin sorted out and snag some go fast bits.

The stock bar is a paltry 1 1/8".

"You know you're grassroots when..." another 3/16" makes you non-paltry.

In reply to Stealthtercel:

The guy texted me back today and said he'd sell me the bar, brackets and endlinks for $15! And he's going to pull it off the car.

New total = $1,259 rounded up to $1,260.

Unplugged both crash sensors and the airbag module, still drained the battery.

Unplugged the tripminder, CEL, trunk ajar indicator, and rear defroster...we'll see how this goes.

That did it, the short is either in the CEL, trunk ajar light cluster or the rear defroster or the tripminder.

I drove the car around a bit yesterday, stopping at a car stealership to ask about an '04 Crown Vic LX Sport with 66,000 miles. Later I parked the Mark VII and left the battery hooked up over night. It fired right up this morning.

Happy, but gun shy.

I may just be nuts enough to follow in JThw8's footsteps and keep trading up in Panthers; base model for LX Sport, LX Sport for Marauder...

...or I may just sell mine and pretend I never bought one... shrug

Who made that module? Are there any marks on it? It looks familiar. Does it have a hinged door that you can open and slide out the board?

I would be suspect of the tripminder, my friend has a 91 bill blass which emitted a constant buzzing whenever he drove it until we unplugged the tripminder, which which oddly enough also reset his dash to mph from kph. I took it apart and there was a transistor rattling around loose within the case. Haven't tried sourcing a replacement yet to attempt to fix it.

tuna55 wrote: Who made that module? Are there any marks on it? It looks familiar. Does it have a hinged door that you can open and slide out the board?

After googling the part number I found out it was a part of the A/C control system and it's used on all Ford products around the same age as my Lincoln.

I plugged that one back in and I didn't see a way to open it, but in all fairness I didn't really look.