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Hello Jack, No Way!!! I am Expieriencing the same Problem on my 1991 9000cd. This also happended a couple of days before you posted the question(maybee the cold weather in new york)( if your from new york?). I turn my steering wheel and there is a crunching and popping noise that seems like if it comming from where the steering wheel connects to the dash board. I had my uncle who is a mechanic for 35 years diagnose this as a bad bearing in my steering shaft. Strauss wanted to charge me, are you sitting, $1,400 for a rack and pinnon and a new steering pump and a crack on the cv boot rubber. anyway i had my uncle check it out the cv boot just needs a new rubber kit that cost about $10. my pump is running great, and he thinks its a bearing in the steering shaft above the universal Knuckle joint. Well Guess What? I reversed my car to parralell park and had to force turn the steering wheel because it jams slightly and makes the crunching and popping sound. I then heard a couple of dropps on my floor carpet. It was ball Bearings, but not the ball type, they look like lead pencil cylinders, Double as wide as a regular pencil lead though. about .25 inched long. these are from a bearing that is located above where the shaft bend into a 45 degree angle. as soon as these bearing fell my steering is alot better than before(loose bearing must have been swimming in there creating the popping/crunching sounds). only thing is that it now wiggles very very very slightly if i shake it (the steering wheel). what ever job the bearing did, since it is not all there it fells a little tiny bit loose almost unnoticable, but guess what my steering works excellent. i am also currently online trying to find the name of this bearing. If you can figure this out, let me know. I want to get it installed again for what ever reason it came in the car??? maybe there is some diagrams out there that can show us where this belongs, i also need the name of this bearing to order the part. I mean, how many bearings does the steering shaft have above the joint(about 1 1/5 feet above the pedals and about 5 inches below where the steering wheel meets the dashboard. I have already fixed about 5 things myself on this car (never fixed a car in my life) and am not going to stop here, or ever. first car i've owned, its a Saab and i love it. every one told me not to buy this car because its expensive to fix this is why i am doing it myself. Good luck, Jack!
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