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My '91 900, non-turbo is quite cherry and has only 100K true miles.
Some time ago the ABS warning light started staying on (it was intermittent briefly before), but the brakes seemed to otherwise work fine. So my local Indy SAAB shop said just live with it unless you want to replace the whole ABS/master cylinder/reservoir assembly. A week ago, for the first time the fbrake fluid warning came on, not while braking, and all power assist was lost. It came back, sort of, the light went out, I nursed it back home and bought a used SAAB OEM accumulator --seemingly the culprit in such cases-- on eBay, and installed it easily enough.
When I started cold, the brake fluid warning came on for 15-20 seconds and went off again. No problems or wierdness for about 100 miles. Then I found my battery (only about two years old) was completely flat and discharged this morning. No problems with the alternator idiot light, which worked normally --on for a second or two just after starting, then off and stayed off. I replaced the battery with a new one, car started right up, drove about another 100 miles with no brake fluid warning, although theABS warning stayed permanently on as it has for the last six months.
Then pulling off the freeway tonight, the engine stalled (which has also been happening unexpectedsly these days, but it always restarts instantly), and the shift linkage (5 spd manual, which has never had a stitch of problems) suddenly kind of jammed and the shift gates seemed very gnarly and rough. Then I got it into first OK, without forcing or gnashing. But quite oddly, the ABS light went out for the first time in months. No odd sounds from the transmission, and the gearbox oil level was normal and clean when I checked it after nursing the car home, with the ABS warning and the brake fluid warning both coming on again (the latter only intermittently).
Yeah I know there isn't supposed to be any relationship between this spate of odd happenings in the electrics (?), the ABS system, and the shift mechanism. Maybe like the '57 Plymouth in Christine, the problem is simply that my car has become possessed by Satan.
Any other ideas? Could the shift lock/steering lock mechanism be somehow jamming up? I don't recollect that either had particularly worked (or not) before.
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