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Re: Botched clutch job! HELP! Long and desperate! Posted by Justin VanAbrahams [Email] ![]() ![]() In Reply to: Botched clutch job! HELP! Long and desperate!, RayV, Sat, 14 Apr 2001 16:50:06 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
Everyone here has the right idea... What I've done in the past is used a Dremel with a cutoff wheel to cut the fingers off the pressure plate. In my cases, the slave cylinder was in good shape, so I wanted to save that... :)
Regardless of what you do, your money is probably best spent on an entire clutch kit. That'll have the slave cylinder with throwout bearing, pressure plate, and clutch disc all in one box for about $200 from the dealer. The slave alone is $1xx from the dealer, so it's a good deal. Of course, you can get both cheaper from various Saabnet sponsors, but this is the rough relationship - the disc and plate are dirt cheap. While you're buying, DEFINITELY get a new input shaft seal, and it's well worth it to replce the input shaft bearing on the flywheel as wheel as the rear seal. Cheap parts, good insurance.
The dealer will have a special Saab tool designed for this situation. It's a big lever looking thing that you use to compress the pressure plate to get that spacer in. I've borrowed one from my mechanic from time to time - you might try the same. The lead tech at the local dealer will rent his tools out for dirt cheap (a beer or something) with a deposit. Might try that avenue.
-Justin
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