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I'm probably a fool to hazard this topic, since it will likely produce a firestorm on this BBS, but...
Over and over through the years, I've had to listen to claims of how weak and prone to seizure SAAB's two cycle engine was.
I owned, bought, sold, serviced and lovingly drove and maintained two strokes for over twenty years... and at least two hundred thousand miles (on my own cars).
Only one engine - of unknown history at that - ever gave up on me.
When making the claim that two strokes are prone to failure, one should document circumstance. Was the car new or used when purchased? Was its full service history known? Was there any reason to believe the odometer reading was accurate?
I once bought a brand new GT 850 engine in SAAB USA's final closeout of major two stroke components... for $200. The engine remained in a box for a couple of years before I was able to put together a car worthy enough to receive it.
I put 120,000 miles on that engine - and not all easy miles at that - before I parked the car... with the intention of transferring the usable parts to another 'worthy' vehicle. I _never_ had a problem with that engine. And, despite a number of years of neglect, it still turns over to this day.
Expecting a modern engine to exceed a hundred thousand miles has become commonplace... but remember that the last two stroke was produced in 1968... and that any example available today as used and undocumented is likely to have seen both substantial use and abuse.
Don't - for gawd's sake - blame the engine if you can't vouch for every single mile yourself.
In the words of Erik Carlsson:
"You couldn't kill it."
PB
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