Date: 29 Jul 2004 08:21:29 -0700 From: judd_austinnospamo.com (Judd Austin) Subject: Re: C900S weird tin-y chatter coming from under the hood **SOLUTION**
MeatballTurbo <carl.robsonnospamcing-czechs.com> wrote in message news:<MPG.1b72b7997bdbfc1398a3ddnospam.individual.net>... > In article <2mqkikFouir6U2nospamberlin.de>, grunffnospam.com says... > > Judd Austin wrote: > > > > > Turns out to have been the Harmonic balancer - completely seperated. > > > It took out the 4 month old waterpump as well. I understand it could > > > have been worse - oil pump is nearby. > > > > Glad you've fixed it. > > > > > > > $4000 in March, converted the car to a manual trans (auto died at 94k) > > > > I wouldn't have thought this was economical to do. I've done it once, > > and it took quite a lot of time to do. But that was done as a hobby. If > > you're paying someone to do it, ouch! > > > > > Depends how clean the rest of the car is. And what else has been spent > over the years. If it runs fine the body work is solid, and that $4k is > the difference between a good car that needs work, and a newer car that > is now fairly high mileage, and an unknown quantity. I would be tempted. Yep. That's where I ended up. this is a California car and in fine condition -body/paint is flawless, compression is fine, doesn't burn oil, idles right, top is fine, interior is in great shape - seats and carpet are clean, no cracks on the dash etc... It's just that the trans went. The cost to replace the auto with either a used pull or rebuilt was about $1500-$3500 and it came with a 1 year warranty at best. Absolute Saab in Encinitas, CA. offered a Manual conversion for $3000 with a 3 year warranty. I figured I could get better gas milage with a manual (it now cruises at around 3k RPM nospamh and gets approx. 24 mpg freeway)and easily another 3-4 years of use out of it. As I described I took care of a lot of other things while they were at it. The car is my daily driver, I put down 80-90 miles a day.
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