1990 Lincoln Continental: engine overheating

5 of the 158 complaints about the 1990 Lincoln Continental describe engine overheating.

owner complaints: 5
of this car's complaints: 3%
recalls: 0

Is there a fix? 6 service bulletins cover this area of the car. See below

Engine overheating by model year

2017
1
2002
1
1998
2
1997
2
1994
13
1993
9
1992
4
1991
4
1990
5

What owners say

Filed Sep 18, 2001 · Engine, Suspension · PA

On the internet it stated ford had callbacks for all3.8 engines for headgasket problems but only recalled a few VIN numbers. How could they get away with that? You and I and every mecchanic knows the problem with the 3.8 engine by ford why cant some thing be done. I wasnt told of anything about this. Lucky I was driving not my daughter. She would have diven till it burned the motor up. And the air shocks at $ 4,000 for the 4 of them thats another farce. Cant you make them at least install at cost ? My engine overheated as I was driving on the pa. Turnpike lucky I pulled over and got towed with a $350 bill.

Filed Jul 14, 2000 · Engine · AR

Engine was taken in for overheating and failure to cool. Dealer checked out and rleased the car. Immediately after leaving the dealer (within 5 miles) I noticed the engine was heating way above normal. I stopped at a gas station and raised the hood. I noticed there was no coolantin the reservoir. I bought a gallon of antifreeze and poured over half of the gallon into the tank. I continued home about 5 miles and noticed that it was still overheating. I raised the hood and put over a gallon of water into the radiator. The next day my wife and I drove the car to check it out assuming that the ford dealer garage had simply failed to check out coolant and water and it would be okay. The car heat gage would rise and fall depending upon pressure on the engine. We took it back to the garage and left it for moring repair. We got a call that the engine had locked up and the block was cracked. The gaskets had failed and leaked coolant into the engine.

Filed Jun 18, 2000 · Engine · TN

The temperature and system check system on my dashboard gave me no indication that the car was overheating. The mechanic who worked on at the madison tn bp service station said my car said that he was having several lincoln having the same type problem one was in right next to mine at the time it was working acording to his computer my gauges worked they just didnt sense any overheating I have spent two thousand dollars to correct a blown head gasket two fuel injectors and a thermostat waterpump and two spark plugs and two oxygen sensors all due to the car overheating I constantly ran a system check with my on dash system check and had all system normal now due to the car overheating with no notice the gauge on the dash read temperature was in the center not hot nor too cold even with the new parts the car is now hesitating and cutting off the gauges show check engine charge system bad and the car cuts off constantly and the mechanic can't seem to fix it each time it cuts off he keeps finding something else wrong and is associating each with the original problem of the car overheating leading me to believe that there is a major cooling system problem also it has a new radiator so it seems that the problem is due to the original manufacturers design for the cooling system not to mention the minor braking and steeering problems I seem to have here lately help please I am at the end of my rope here. Thanks.

Filed Sep 26, 1996 · Engine, Transmission · PA

The axle for the front end had to be replaced and the engine has overheated.

Filed Aug 29, 1996 · Engine · PA

Engine head cracked due to overheating.