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, Tue, 13 Dec 2005 13:00:24
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Scott: Not that difficult by a long shot. All stand up, all from above, worst is removing turbo air ducts and black plastic clutch cover (bell housing cover), which besides several fasteners needs to be bent and wrestled with a little to come out.
Read the how-to on the townsendimports.com web site (Saabmaster, enter, technical documents,engine) and also study up on here by searching under clutch and variations of that.
Pop big clamping wire out of way, let sheet metal cover tip out to front or use a magnet on it, spin the nylon spinner out by fingers, get a fat socket and thread a longish M8 bolt with big washer thru it and into end of clutch shaft, tighten down and shaft will pop out. Remove bolt and pull shaft way to front.
Get a friend or a two-foot 2x4 jammed into seat lip to hold down the clutch pedal and then insert the tool CMyles has so many ideas how to make, or Saab's special tool, (thickness is .160") between shell of pressure plate and fingers, release pedal and clutch is held released. Then undo the six clutch to flywheel bolts and the three slave cylinder to tranny bolts (tight fit, allen wrench, can be replaced with std. 10mm hex-headed M6 bolts I've read) and pry pressure plate back about 1/4" off the dowel pins in the flywheel, and it all slides out to side.
If hydraulics are fine don't mess with them.
If they're bad, use this trick to get clutch out: Remove every other one of the six pressure plate to flywheel bolts, and loosen the other three most of the way. Take three fat nuts, say 1/2-13NC, and prying the pressure plate a bit back from flywheel, pop a nut under each of the three ears of pressure plate forging that stick out of its pressed-steel housing. Pop them right under the heads of the rivets that attach the link straps.
Then tighten the three bolts back down; that jacks the pressure plate up off the flywheel and you can insert the ring tool. Remove the bolts, pick out your fat nuts and go on with removal.
Fix bad hydraulics either by new cylinders or by kits; if it's the slave I don't think anyone lists one but you can use metric o-rings, 3x35, 3x39 and 3x49mm sizes.
I LOVE CMyles's easy clutch bleeding method so much I'm hoping to soon encounter a 900 with bad clutch hydraulics so I can try it.
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, Tue, 13 Dec 2005 09:44:57, Tue, 13 Dec 2005 10:07:35, Tue, 13 Dec 2005 13:00:24
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