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I'd like to extend to TIM at EAST OF SWEDEN (Colorado) and CHIP at WEST OF SWEDEN (Virginia) a great big Lone-Star State "THANK YOU" for taking the time (about a 20-25 minute phone call), just over a week ago, to help me diagnose the "no start" on my '87 900T Convert.
I'd searched this BB, Townsend's website, every other SAAB related place I could find to figure out why my 900TC wouldn't start. The car was running fine about 2 months ago, and then one morning it would turn over, but not start. Called my buddy Chip Lamb at West of Sweden and his thoughts were of the distributor (the hall sensor connector was old, brittle, held on by a zip tie). I had used the BENTLEY manual diagnosing the ignition and fuel systems, with jumper wires, multi-meter readings etc.... I had spark at the each of the plugs, the fuel pump ran when jumpered, etc... and still no start!!
I had to wait a week for some more (unrelated) cooling system parts to arrive, but when everything was put back together, the car fired up! The timing needed tweaking (replaced the distributor with a completely rebuilt one), but she's purring again!
Tim and Chip took time out of their day and schedule to help a fellow SAABer down here in "non-SAAB" South Texas. This just goes to show the camaraderie shared by SAABers new and old.
We also noted that the root cause was the pictures of the distrubutor cap and wires ( IN THE BENTLEY MANUAL ) are WRONG (placement is 180 out)!! and silly me.. I hadn't sketched or taken a pic (before) I tore everything apart!
Regards, Mike "SaabDude" Szostkiewicz
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