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Re: anti-freeze
Posted by Richard Scott [Email] (more from Richard Scott) on Mon, 24 Nov 2003 20:42:27
In Reply to: anti-freeze, trudy, Sat, 22 Nov 2003 14:40:03
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It may (or may not?) be very important to use SAAB antifreeze.
Here's my tale of woe. Back in '78 we had a '74 99. One evening my wife came home with huge clouds of steam coming out the tail pipe. How much steam? She should have robbed a bank--they would never have been able to see the road to follow her. So, figuring we had a seriously blown head gasket, I pulled the head. Now, I am not much of a mechanic, but I saw no evidence of gasket failure. Took the head to a machine shop to have it surfaced & they called with very bad news. Corrosion behind a valve had eaten all the way thru to the water jacket. A call to the dealer revealed a cost of about $750 just for the head--no valves, just the chunk of aluminum. Again, this was in '78. Calls to all the junk yards found several SAABs, but none had a head. Hmmm, I was beginning to see a pattern here. After 3 or 4 months I lucked out over someone's misfortune when a wrecking yard got in a fresh wreck & I was the first to call. I figured that head was a bargain at $350.
The dealer claimed that with the particular alloy SAAB used in their heads, it was very important to use SAAB antifreeze to be sure the right corrosion inhibiters were present.
Our local dealer claims this is still true. I am not sure I believe him, but this is not something I want to test.
Just one person't experience.
Richard Scott
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Posts in this Thread:
- anti-freeze, trudy, Sat, 22 Nov 2003 14:40:03
- Re: anti-freeze, Richard Scott, Mon, 24 Nov 2003 20:42:27 <-- Viewing This Message
- It depends., Bob M, Sun, 23 Nov 2003 16:01:24
- first thing to do is look at the reservoir, TimBrown, Sun, 23 Nov 2003 11:43:12
- what do you want to do?, Bret, Sat, 22 Nov 2003 15:15:38
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