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If it's not thoroughly bled of air, or if the seals are bad in either slave or master that would happen.
So double check the bleeding, for starters. Or say on here why you think it's not a hydraulic problem.
That said, I had one of the little coiled anti-shudder springs break and fall out of a Valeo brand clutch disk (old but still had meat on the lining faces). That spring then was jamming things up so yeah, the clutch wouldn't fully release. Needed to open things up using the "3 fat nuts" method of depressing pressure plate fingers to get the special tool in and get it apart.
Where to get used clutch parts? Well, once an indy garage owner gets done scoffing and laughing, if they've recently done a C900 clutch job they might still have the pressure plate they pulled out, and maybe a clutch disk with life left on it, in a scrap pile somewhere. If they're Sachs brand and the disk truly has lining enough left on it, I'd have no qualms about installing them in my car. Some advise, rough up pressure plate surface with a sandpaper disk, flywheel as well.
Garages and many owners now usually do a "clutch kit," throwout bearing, pressure plate, and clutch disk, maybe pilot bearing as well, when the real complaint they started in to fix might have been a bad clutch master cylinder or slave.
If pilot bearing is seizing up and wicked stiff, it will make clutch disk drag and seem not to be fully released. So that could be it. If bad need to pull flywheel to press it out. Hardly worth putting a used one in they're so reasonable, especially if you take old one to a bearing specialty shop and buy one like it - - or at W.W. Grainger's.
Throwout bearing could also be bad I guess. And if it was Saab original used, you could try working some thick oil like chainsaw bar oil down into it to rejuvenate the lube before installing one.
The clutch on a 900 is so relatively easy to get to I don't think the traditional rule, 'While you're in there, might as well do everything.', applies.
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