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Lessee...
#3: stripping the threads on the outer CV for a 99... THAT was a $300 mistake. But it was my first 99, first time I'd ever done brake rotors on that car...
#2: changing the perfectly good left hydraulic motor mount on a 900 turbo with the motor in the car. That job is so impossible, that had I a cliff handy, I just might have rolled the car off of it. Yes, I put the new one in, because after all that frustration, I wasn't going to do it again anytime soon!
#1.5: Doing alternator work on a 900 turbo, and failing to tighten the stay bolt at the motor. That stay also helps hold the timing cover on, and in a VERY critical area, right next to the main oil gallery. Oil pressure eventually sidestepped the gasket, and rod knock ensued...
But #1 with a bullet has to be when I grenaded my 1984 900t's 5-speed gearbox... In my neighborhood, they would come around every few years and do the oil & chips thing on the road. It sucks the first few weeks, till the chips get settled and pressed into the old road surface. Then for a while, you have EXTREME traction...
Well, I stupidly decided to "go through the gears" getting home one night. First gear was fine, but when I dropped the clutch in second, the car made an expensive sound. The sound of which was caused by the sequence of events that started with the tires getting full traction on the chips, everything in the driveline locking up, through the ring gear, and the pinion trying to make it all move, with the full faith and credit of 135 turbocharged horsepower pushing it... Two chipped teeth on the pinion (there's only 9 total...), several chipped teeth on the ring, and a two-piece main transmission case later, and it rolled to a stop.
I learned a couple things from that:
1) Don't try to go through the gears hard on fresh road chips...
2) never, never, ever trust any synthetic MOTOR oil in the 900 gearbox. I was stupidly running Mobil 1. That was before my MTL phase, which I've completely grown out of, and today will ONLY put processed dinosaur pressings in a 99 or C900 gearbox.
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Current:
2002 9-5 Aero Kombi Cosmic Blue
2000 9-5 SE sedan, Imola Red
1990 900S Rose Quartz, Auto
Past:
1999 9-5 LPT Combi
1999 9-5 LPT sedan
2002 9-5 Arc
1990 900 5-speed
1986 900 turbo Convertible
1991 9000 turbo
1980 99 GLi
1986 900 turbo
1986 900 S
1991 900 turbo
1984 900 turbo
1976 99 GL
Posts in this Thread:
- OK! Fess up!, Noel, Sat, 12 Mar 2011 15:37:34
- Re: OK! Fess up!, JimBlake
, Thu, 17 Mar 2011 19:47:47 - Re: OK! Fess up!, Joeychess, Thu, 17 Mar 2011 14:19:26
- 5-speed transmission rebuild, Jon
, Wed, 16 Mar 2011 18:12:49 - Re: OK! Fess up!, andym, Wed, 16 Mar 2011 11:51:39
- Re: OK! Fess up!, Larry West
, Tue, 15 Mar 2011 06:20:57 <-- Viewing This Message - Re: OK! Fess up!, TML
, Mon, 14 Mar 2011 18:51:04 - Re: OK! Fess up!, burlybryan, Mon, 14 Mar 2011 13:33:07
- Poor running stories..., Mike Lynch
, Mon, 14 Mar 2011 12:46:09 - Re: OK! Fess up!, Scott Paterson
, Mon, 14 Mar 2011 11:35:15 - My "stoner-mobile", No Snaab, Mon, 14 Mar 2011 09:30:15
- Buying my first Saab is #1. Following it with other 6.., Acubra, Mon, 14 Mar 2011 09:10:18
- Re: OK! Fess up!, Erik919kt, Mon, 14 Mar 2011 08:55:50
- Re: OK! Fess up!, Drake, Mon, 14 Mar 2011 08:53:11
- Re: OK! Fess up!, Ed_F
, Mon, 14 Mar 2011 01:13:27 - Re: OK! Fess up!, Noel, Sun, 13 Mar 2011 16:24:57
- Just today in fact., turrbo
, Sun, 13 Mar 2011 15:59:36 - Re: OK! Fess up!, IrieTom
, Sun, 13 Mar 2011 12:51:57 - Heavy date heavy chevy, dtech aka cheaptech, Sun, 13 Mar 2011 09:04:14
- Re: OK! Fess up!, pete
, Sun, 13 Mar 2011 08:54:20 - I have two... off the top of my head..., PGAero
, Sun, 13 Mar 2011 08:48:54 - Re: OK! Fess up! Clutch, Skid Plate, Dave Chicago, Sun, 13 Mar 2011 08:05:01
- Forgetting to recharge the brake system, MI-Roger
, Sun, 13 Mar 2011 06:39:29 - C900: clutch disc installed backwards, JerseySaab
, Sun, 13 Mar 2011 06:22:43 - I bought C900. Thrice., Siegfried, Sun, 13 Mar 2011 04:34:22
- These are fun! Here are three of mine:, Jonathan Scupin
, Sat, 12 Mar 2011 22:28:45 - a) remove brake pads; b) press brake pedal (+), vvk, Sat, 12 Mar 2011 22:08:57
- Re: OK! Fess up!, jonathan, Sat, 12 Mar 2011 19:45:52
- Re: OK! Fess up!, EGD
, Sat, 12 Mar 2011 18:52:26 - Almost swallowing coolant while siphoning it, bender
, Sat, 12 Mar 2011 17:00:30 - Fixing a squeaky ..., AlS, Sat, 12 Mar 2011 16:00:27
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