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Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 10:25:48 -0400
From: Malt_Hound <Malt_Houndnospamm*yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Clutch finally went...


Gemini Jackson wrote: > ...in my 97 900se/manual shift. > > I've gotten a quote of $800 freakin' bucks to fix this. That sounds about right *if* you need a complete clutch R&R. > A friend tells me it sounds like pushrods, Stay away from that friend. He knows nothing about SAABs and apparently not cars either. You don't have pushrods in the engine nor the clutch. > once it warms up it grinds going > into gear, once in gear it seems to be fine. The clutch though is low > to the floor but feels same as it has the last several months. This sounds like a problem getting the clutch to disengage. The clutch itself proabbly does not need to be replaced. A bad clucth will usually slip when engaged. > I also > hear that I can top off the master cylinder with fluid, and that may > help. Probably not. *If* you have a hydraulic clutch and the reason you can't fully disengage the clutch is that the fluid level got too low, then you now would have air in the lines, which could indeed cause these symptoms. Simply refilling the reservoir would not solve that problem. You would need to get the clutch circuit properly bled of all air. Having personally attempted bleeding this circuit multiple times on my daughter's '98 900, I can tell you, it ain't easy. This is because the bleed nipple is at the lowest point in the system (down on the transmission bellhousing near the slave). So using conventional techniques you may not be able to get the air sucked / pushed out before it rises in the tubing. I think the best (only) way to do this right would be a reverse pressure bleed. Push the fluid up from the slave end into the reservoir. They do make tools to do this, but I don't have one. I have contemplated rigging something together but haven't yet as her cluthc, though low to the floor, srill disengages fully. However, all of the prior discussion aside, AFAIR your car has a cable actuated clutch. The 900 clutch design was updated to hydraulic in 1998. The clutch cables *are* known to get screwed up. Maybe that's all it is? -Fred W

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