You are correct. The Crown Vic is a surprisingly durable car!



Ed

Towncars use that engine and limos routinely go 400 or 500K miles. There was one on Ebay a while back with over 700,000 miles.

I thought everyone in Dubai ran 20w50 in everything!

On a more serious note - looks good. How's the interior holding up? Does it all crack?




I believe that's the oil pumps through the driver's side first then to the passenger side head. The oil passages on that side are very small, too.

No need to remove cams for VS seals., I did it on my Tbird (pretty much exact engine under the intake manifold). There is a tool to tilt the valves.

That mileage isn't spectacular. I know some cabs upstate here pushing 500K. Original everything. They are 98-02 (you can tell by the dished wheels). The transmissions have the drain pan with the plug.

I only have 151,000 miles on my GM 4.6. Are you telling me I can never get rid of this car as it will run forever?

Passenger side is the "dirty" side of the PCV system. All of the vapors and blowby flow through that side, hence the darker color. Driver's side is the clean side, which only sees air from the filtered air intake pulled through it. Difference in color between banks is normal.

The op has 363,000 miles on this car yet some try to downplay it. Only on BITOG.

Looks good.

Keep in mind that fuel formulation there is different from ours in the States. I have never saw a Police Inerceptor in taxi service after police abuse going over 250k on 5-20 without smoking.
The OP has been doing very well. Just keep your eye on the rear axles and bearings: that year had some bad ones, and the design is half-assed

Design is half assed? Based on what? It's the exact same design as every other semi-float axle over the last century.

Leaf springs are more safe and reliable. No need of new-fangled 'coil springs' or 'control arms'.

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Could be at 500k by now if 10w-40 was used.

Looks like normal wear...seal it back up and go for another 363!

Combo of old style, lazy large displacement engines and new oils (even with some group II) are a combo that will allow you to drive forever. Nice!

Looks very good. Thanks for sharing.

The high-strung, ubiquitous 1 and 2 point whatever, turbo(and super)-charged engines of today will NEVER reach these miles without at least one complete rebuild.