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Height sensor fix/repair

From 1990 Lincoln Town Car “Mileage Master” — documented by Sixlitre.

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1990 Lincoln Town Car - This is the height sensor. One or both ends start to jump off the ball studs it attaches to. This tells the comprssor to go on strike and y… 1990 Lincoln Town Car - One ball stud is bracketed onto the axle and the other is on the frame. They get dirty and rusty too. These are the studs the height sensor… 1990 Lincoln Town Car - Here's the upper socket that pushes onto the ball stud. The shiny spring is supposed to keep pressure on the ball and keep it from jumping… 1990 Lincoln Town Car - Here's the backview of the socket. In theory you're meant to deperss the spring with your thumbnail and allow the other side to click onto… 1990 Lincoln Town Car - Like anything set into plastic, the metal spring has a detent to allow removal of the spring. I used a tiny screwdriver to depress the tang… 1990 Lincoln Town Car - Once out you can see the cupped shaped part of the spring that is supposed to hold the ball stud in place (the rusty part). 1990 Lincoln Town Car - Once out the spring is helpless to your will. I stretched the spring apart to put some life/spring back into it. It goes back into the plas… 1990 Lincoln Town Car - Okay so I'm not the most trusting backyard mechanic. I tie-wrapped the crap out of it, even though it felt much tighter with the newly stre… 1990 Lincoln Town Car - The ultimate solution ! Drilled through the ball stud and threaded it to 1/4-UNC-20 and spun it out to 3/4" away from bracket. The two lock… 1990 Lincoln Town Car - Started drilling out the ball. Went all the way out to 1/4 UNC-20 so only the ball is left with internal threads to allow spinning it onto…