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Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 16:50:42 -0500
From: saab guy <saabguynopsam.net>
Subject: fire in the air filter!
Last night my son called and said he had run out of gas (85 Saab 900s)
and that he would be a few minutes late getting home. This morning I
went back with him to get the car. Since it is fuel injected, he
thought it might have to have something special done to get it to start.
When we got there, I smelled something burnt but did not say anything.
Tried to start the car a couple of times and it would start but
immediately died. Since we got almost three inches of rain last night,
I thought things might be wet under the hood and popped the hood to
check.
Upon closer inspection, the air filter assembly had a hole melted in the
side of it! I removed the unit and discovered that the entire assembly
had been damaged and that the air filter was actually ASH!
JT (my son) swears the car made no strange noises and that he did not
notice anything unusual until the second that it quit. When it quit, he
said the "gas" warning light came on.
Questions:
1. WHAT could have caused this ... (mechanical fault ... operator
error..., etc)?
2. Since he tried repeatedly to start the car (and I tried twice) how
much damage did we likely do to the engine (like maybe allowing ash to
be sucked in through the intake)?
3. Has this ever happened to anyone else?
4. Any suggestions on finding a used unit to replace this one?
The car is perfect, cosmetically, but we just spent almost $1800 because
he bent the shift linkage when he hit a really big curb (also had the
clutch, etc. replace while it was down.
Any suggestions or advice regarding the care and feeding of this machine
(the Saab... not JT) would be greatly appreciated!
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