Thanks to all on this board who have submitted suggestions for the above mods and more! I did these two jobs today after studying them for weeks here. The 900 is a friend's, and I wanted to make the initial Saab experience happier.

The Tonneau motor was the classic warped brace, pulling the gears apart. I made a brace with angle iron, bolts and wing nuts. Worked great. Saved a thou or two. Before bolting together I tried to bend the motor bracket back towards original shape on the vice and with c-clamps. Probably got half of it back.

The clutch cable went better and worse than expected. The instructions I pulled from one of the sponsors said to remove the black distributor box, which I assumed to be the fuse box. Couldn't figure how to get it out. Pulled the wheel, and went at it through the wheel well. Dash parts a pain to pull apart, not actually a pain, but more involved than I expected.

I was able to pull the spring out of the way easily with bent coat hanger and bunge as suggested by Swedecar-thanks Anders! Since I did not have easy access to the area of insertion, I attached the old cable to an electrical fish tape, and pulled the fish tape out with the old cable. I then attached the new cable to the fish tape and pulled it back in. The rest I was able to do through the wheel well. Probably took 4 hrs, but was dodging t-storms here in mid-west.

Getting the old cable off of the clutch arm was easily done by hand. Getting the new one on was a grunt with pry bars. Still, don't seemed to have gained much, so may be time for a new clutch on this 65k car.

Thanks again to those of you who responded to my questions, and the many of you who have written in the past on these and other topics! You gave me a good day.

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• Thanks! Conv tonneau motor, clutch cable '96SE, EricG, Sun, 23 May 2004 19:45:51 <-- Viewing This Message
  • Hope you didn't spend too much time on the bracket?, SWEDECAR , Sun, 23 May 2004 21:47:50
    • Wish I had a good dealer here., EricG, Mon, 24 May 2004 08:46:35
  • Oops, that's a '95SE Conv. n/m, Eric G, Sun, 23 May 2004 19:49:50

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