1988 Lincoln Mark VII Starting Problem

Check also your fuel cap. I had a 1977 country squire that did the exact same thing. I realize FI and carb are way diffrent but it would be a simple cheap thing to check.

My breather tube had become clogged and the cap wasnt ventilating properly.

Hope that helps =)

Thanks to both of you Ken and Rainhopperroo! For the time being my lincoln is running pretty good.

The first thing I did was change the pick up coil, before Rainhopperroo posted, I thought it was the easiest and cheapest thing to do. Well that had no effect whatsoever. I drove the car for awhile after that and it was rapidly becoming worse, cutting off while driving after awhile and taking longer than a 1/2 hour to start back up again.

I then finally changed the ignition module. It helped, it didn't cut off on me while driving, although I didn't push it to far but it still would have problems restarting after I drove it awhile.

The case cracker, I switched the gas cap with an 88 Ford Crown Victoria I have and "knock on wood" I haven't had a single problem starting or the car dying on me since I did that.

I don't know if the gas cap was the only problem, because it definitely ran better after switching out the ignition module, but it did solve it completely after I switched caps.

Again thanks to both of you but especially to Rainhopperroo, not in my wildest dreams would I have thought the gas cap was the problem. You probably saved the car from the junk pile, at least for another year.

Q