Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 21:29:53 +0100 From: "Tomas Rapp" <tomas.rappnopsam301.swipnet.se> Subject: Re: Cylinder Head gasket for 1984 900 16V changed shape?
Hmmmm, Jeremy Sounds strange. If it turns over I doubt its the head gasket. If it is the head gasket what happens is that you either get cooling water/oil out of the engine or into one engine. If you get cooling water into one cylinder it will only affect that cylinder, ie either it will only start at three cylinders or not start att all (too much water in the cylinder means higher compression). Naaaaa, I would think it is either the fuel injection or something electric, Well, you may still nead a new head gasket, but a I´ve never heard of a head gasket causing the car not to start the way you describe. The first thing to check should be that you get fuel to the cylinders. Make sure the fuelpump is working and so on, and make sure that fuel injection works. Second thing is to check you get a spark to the sparkplug. Hope that help you out. I will put that gasket into my car tomorrow. If the engine blows, I´ll get a new engine. ....and maybe hurl the old one through the window of my local Saab dealer ;) But somehow the car is going to run. It´s the funniest car I´ve ever had. It´s an ugly dinosaur and pure fun to drive. No ABS, no traction control, no 4WD. Just pure fun. Yours Tomas "Jeremy McCutcheon" <jeremy01nopsamhlink.net> wrote in message news:3889D5C8.98FE1B50nopsamhlink.net... > Sorry, I don't know the answer to your question but maybe you can answer > something for me. I was just given a 1985 900 turbo. It turns over but it won't > start. The dealer who looked at it said it needed a new head gasket. How hard > its it to replace. I have done it on a Dodge 383 ci V8, but never a foreign car > (I'm in the USA). Thanks in advance for any info you can give me. > > Jeremy > > Tomas Rapp wrote: > > > Well, the normal Saab story. Blew the gasket between the engine and the > > cylinder head. Stripped the engine and went to my local Saab dealer and > > bought a new cylinder head gasket. The engine is a 1984 16v Turbo. > > > > But when I compared the old gasket with the new, I found that the new one > > would block a lot more of the cooling channels than the old gasket. > > > > I went to another spare part dealer (not a Saab dealer) and asked him for > > the same gasket. It was identical to the one I had recieved from my Saab > > dealer (No I dont trust my local Saab dealer. They have failed to repair my > > Saab correctly three of the last four times I´ve let them repair my car. By > > now I´m rather pissed at them). > > > > So, the bottom line; Does anybody know If that gasket have changed shape > > during the last 16 years? Should some of the cooling channels be blocked by > > the gasket between the engine and the cylinder head? > > > > Yours Tomas Rapp, Sweden >
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