Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2003 22:12:30 -0000 From: MeatballTurbo <carl.robsonnopsamcing-czechs.com> Subject: Re: My luck just gets better and better.
In article <BBD30A6C.AF18%pjghnopsamyonder.co.uk>, pjghnopsamyonder.co.uk spouted forth into alt.autos.saab... > in article MPG.1a175d4b807d07d989b37nopsam.cis.dfn.de, MeatballTurbo at > carl.robsonnopsamcing-czechs.com wrote on 08/11/2003 20:07: > > > The luck isn't getting any better. > > <snip>A sad, sad Saab story</snip> > > Carl, > > It's your first! It gets better. My first Slaab was a misery, but I loved it > so much I bought another (and another). Remember the advice I gave you right > back then when the Skoda went out and the Saab came in? Love this one .. Get > bitten and but a good one later :) Cheers Paul. I keep thinking, when will it bloody end. I know that when i get the shocks fitted, I'll find the radius arm and panhard rod bushes knackered, so i will have to shell out for them, and see if i can do them myself. After I get some re-inforcement welded into the inner arches, it is going in for a passenger side wheel bearing. I suppose I should bite the bullet and get the ball joints checked and swapped while I'm at it. > I can't begin to tell you the misery I went through with my first one and > I'm nowhere near as mechanically competent as you. I'm sure you know by now > that Saab people fix things that don't need fixing. We fix things before > they break. I've had about a year fixing things on the front-end of my Orca. > I'm nearly there now - drive shafts, CV joints, boots, wheel bearings, > tyres, ball joints, etc. Now all that's fixed, I can hear another problem - > My slave cylinder and/or clutch release bearing has gone ... I know I can > leave it for another few months, because my last 900 made the same kind of > noises for the year and a bit I owned it, but I just want it fixed on this > one. I know what it is like. I love driving it. I even enjoy working on it, but just when I get somewhere, think yes, I cracked it. Slap, the reality fairy lays one on me, and mashes something else up. Normally my ham fisted mechanicing technique does it. > It's a pain, but just remember - if you don't go through all this, you don't > get to drive a Saab. Those good runs just makes it all worth it :) Oh yes. I know. Get the needle into the very high orange Looks great, see the big Beemer receding into the distance. > Try a NA C900 8V next. Nothing like the kind of heartache that you get with > a turbo and/or 16V. Not quite as fast and you'll always remember how fast > the turbo was, until you get another one, but they're damn good fun all the > same. I don't make backwards moves. Next one I get will cost me some more. It will be worth spending out on an inspection for, torn, C900 T16 Conv, or Carlsson, or a 9k Aero or Carlsson. I know the 900 Cabs don't handle as well, but are so cool, the 900 Carlssons are just gorgeous, and both the 9ks can be persuaded to shift just a little. Especially the aero, and those seats in an aero are the absolute dogs danglies, and while not a s grunty, a CD carlsson can be picked up for relative peanuts compared the CS/CSE Aero or Carlsson. I had a CDE LPT 9k when the T16 was in for a chain. Absolutley smooth car, but a bit of a barge. Luxo barge that could rip it up if provoked though, and I wouldn't mind throwing a full power one arround for a while. Given the money, have to admit, this does float my boat a little. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2441052998 &category=182 63 > Hang in there dude. > > Paul > > 1989 900 Turbo S > http://saab.go.dyndns.org/ > > -- Carl Robson (The poster formerly known as Skodapilot) http://www.bouncing-czechs.com
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