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To remove the clutch slave when the hydraulics are bad, you take out every other pressure plate-to-flywheel bolt, and loosen the other three almost all the way.
Then pry the pressure plate off its pins and up just a little, and put three fat nuts under the three extensions of the forged pressure plate itself, where they stick out through the formed heavy sheet metal housing. (Turn flywheel by hand till each one comes into reach.)
Hold the nut with a pocket-clip magnet and you can steer it right into place, popping it under the head of the fat rivet that attaches the forging to three linking straps.
Then just tighten the three pressure plate-to-flywheel bolts down all the way and you jack the pressure plate to proper depressed position to slip the Saab special tool into place, holding it depressed.
Proceed with removal.
What size nuts? In a previous post I guessed standard SAE 1/2-13 thread nuts and that's what I have used in the past - - I just miked the ones I have at .436" which is between 3/8 and 1/2" deep. I also have some other fat nuts I've used for this that I miked at .409" Either size let the Saab spacer I have, that I mike at .158" or 4 mm, formed into a circle about 6" around, fit into place.
With the Saab tool in place it's kind of a tight fit sliding disc, pressure plate and slave all out at once but it goes. You might be able, using taller nuts and a thicker spacer, to gain a little more release of the clutch and thus a little more room, but my $11 Saab tool works fine for me.
I also just miked a wire handle from a 5 gal. poly bucket, .144", which others have reported using successfully to make their own version of the Saab special tool.
Given time to pre-plan I'd recommend ordering the Saab tool; I'm biased because I wasted time making my own copycat version using electrician's "fish tape" wire, almost the same in profile and stiffness to the Saab tool. But it wasn't quite thick enough and I had to bum a cup full of pennies and carefully slide them in, one at a time, around the perimeter between the wire and the pressure plate.
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