alternator<\/a>. Not to be limited to the positive connections. All grounds should also be checked and cleaned. All positive connections should be checked and cleaned.<\/p>\nPerform The “Wiggle Test” when dash lights go out<\/h3>\n
With the engine running, wiggle the wires and wiring harnesses one by one. Note which one you wiggled last that made the dash lights go out and or caused the engine to die. This is the best way to discover the problem area. Repair the wiring and all should be good once more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Lincoln Continental dash lights go out and then it dies. Tired of replacing parts and still not fixing the problem. RESPONSE The most common reason for the dash lights to go out and the engine die would be an electrical connection issue. Most likely a bad connection at the battery or alternator. Not to be… Read More »Dash Lights Go Out Lincoln Continental<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14092,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,130],"tags":[9282],"class_list":["post-37337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-repair-questions","category-lincoln-auto-repair-questions","tag-continental"],"yoast_head":"\nDash Lights Go Out Lincoln Continental - FreeAutoMechanic Advice<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Lincoln Continental dash lights go out and then it dies. Tired of replacing parts and still not fixing the problem. RESPONSE The most common reason for the\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/2016\/11\/dash-lights-go-out-lincoln-continental\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dash Lights Go Out Lincoln Continental\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lincoln Continental dash lights go out and then it dies. Tired of replacing parts and still not fixing the problem. RESPONSE The most common reason for the\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/2016\/11\/dash-lights-go-out-lincoln-continental\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"FreeAutoMechanic Advice\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/freeautomechanic\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-11-20T19:17:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/1986-lincoln-continental.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Benjamin Johnson\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Benjamin Johnson\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Dash Lights Go Out Lincoln Continental - FreeAutoMechanic Advice","description":"Lincoln Continental dash lights go out and then it dies. Tired of replacing parts and still not fixing the problem. RESPONSE The most common reason for the","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/2016\/11\/dash-lights-go-out-lincoln-continental","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Dash Lights Go Out Lincoln Continental","og_description":"Lincoln Continental dash lights go out and then it dies. Tired of replacing parts and still not fixing the problem. RESPONSE The most common reason for the","og_url":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/2016\/11\/dash-lights-go-out-lincoln-continental","og_site_name":"FreeAutoMechanic Advice","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/freeautomechanic","article_published_time":"2016-11-20T19:17:08+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/1986-lincoln-continental.jpg","type":"","width":"","height":""}],"author":"Benjamin Johnson","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Benjamin Johnson","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/2016\/11\/dash-lights-go-out-lincoln-continental#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/2016\/11\/dash-lights-go-out-lincoln-continental"},"author":{"name":"Benjamin Johnson","@id":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/#\/schema\/person\/293d1d97b0ba9633bd4888bedc6469e9"},"headline":"Dash Lights Go Out Lincoln Continental","datePublished":"2016-11-20T19:17:08+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/2016\/11\/dash-lights-go-out-lincoln-continental"},"wordCount":144,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/#organization"},"keywords":["continental"],"articleSection":["Auto Repair Questions","Lincoln"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/2016\/11\/dash-lights-go-out-lincoln-continental#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/2016\/11\/dash-lights-go-out-lincoln-continental","url":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/2016\/11\/dash-lights-go-out-lincoln-continental","name":"Dash Lights Go Out Lincoln Continental - FreeAutoMechanic Advice","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/#website"},"datePublished":"2016-11-20T19:17:08+00:00","description":"Lincoln Continental dash lights go out and then it dies. Tired of replacing parts and still not fixing the problem. RESPONSE The most common reason for the","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/2016\/11\/dash-lights-go-out-lincoln-continental#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/2016\/11\/dash-lights-go-out-lincoln-continental"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/2016\/11\/dash-lights-go-out-lincoln-continental#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Dash Lights Go Out Lincoln Continental"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/","name":"FreeAutoMechanic Advice","description":"Ask a Car Mechanic Questions for Free","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/#organization","name":"FreeAutoMechanic Advice","url":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/cropped-auto_repair_questions.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/cropped-auto_repair_questions.jpg","width":250,"height":81,"caption":"FreeAutoMechanic Advice"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/freeautomechanic","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/freeautomechanic"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/#\/schema\/person\/293d1d97b0ba9633bd4888bedc6469e9","name":"Benjamin Johnson","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/litespeed\/avatar\/2d01d4beb49bc1d4e898f288ab1e6ef0.jpg","url":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/litespeed\/avatar\/2d01d4beb49bc1d4e898f288ab1e6ef0.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/litespeed\/avatar\/2d01d4beb49bc1d4e898f288ab1e6ef0.jpg","caption":"Benjamin Johnson"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/app_scoped_user_id\/200641363717344\/"],"url":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/author\/benjamin-johnson"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14092"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![\"Lincoln](\"\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/1986-lincoln-continental.jpg\")
Lincoln Continental dash lights go out and then it dies. Tired of replacing parts and still not fixing the problem.<\/p>\n