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Re: Advice sought regarding buying convertibles Posted by Karl [Email]  (#161) [Profile/Gallery]
(more from Karl) on Thu, 24 Apr 2003 13:53:47
In Reply to: Re: Advice sought regarding buying convertibles, Robert Spahr, Thu, 24 Apr 2003 02:32:32 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
We too moved to SoCal and I was instructed by She Who Must be Obeyed to get a convertible, which ended up being a 95 900 SE T C with 78,000 miles for $8,400. I almost immediately need to spend $1000 on gear grinding (new clutch cable, now replaced twice; see more below) and dead soft top (new clips, switches and reprogram). The soft top is way too sophisticated, and loses track of who it is quite often, I hear. Mostly though, a full ignition-off gets it back on track when you're left with some bit still flapping in the breeze. Other than that, so far so good.
For the sake of record, let me add my 2c worth to the BB on the grinding gear story. It was diagnosed to be the clutch not fully disengaging, and is due, according to my independent (Stefan at The Swedish Mechanic at the Irvine Spectrum, who is not cheap, but honest and good), to the non-hydraulic clutch put in at the insistence of the new masters at GM for three years (95-98?). It has since caused no end of heartache, with the cable being redesigned three times, and aftermarket retrofit hydraulic kits available and popular.
I thought I'd solved the grinding problem by slipping a cut washer over the stop on the linkage arm end of the cable to effectively make it a little shorter and hence disengage the clutch a little earlier. But it was soon buggered again, especially as the car got hot. Nil desperandum though: reading through many posts on Saabnet, I see that there are three suggestions to fix the fact that the self-adjustment on the clutch cable goes out regularly:
--lube everything, especially the linkage arm bushing where it goes into the gearbox
--move the fuse box away and gently pull the spring on the cable on the engine side away of the firewall so that the self adjuster can...ummm...adjust
--finally, simplest and the one worked and hopefully will continually to work for me: with the car in neutral, press the clutch pedal to the floor, and allow it to slip off your foot. I assume this maneuver has a similar effect to pulling the spring from the other side. It's actually harder to do than it sounds 'cause of the proximity of other pedals, and there's also a suggestion that pumping the pedal half a dozen times in neutral has the same effect, but when I tried pumping rather than slipping that it made it worse.
The general idea is that the self adjusting cable goes out of whack and needs to be brought back to reality every now and again.
Go for it--nothing better than tooling home on the coast road after a hard day at the orifice.
Karl, '95 900SET C (82k, bght 2nd hand at 78k), '95 9000CSE (bght new, my dad has it now at 120k), '93 9000CDE (bght 2nd hand at 110k, my mom has it now at 180k), '88 900T (bght new, sold at 110k), '86 900T (bght 2nd hand at 150k, still keep as holiday car in Africa at 190k).
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