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Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 16:08:43 GMT
From: Jeremy McCutcheon <jeremy01nopsamhlink.net>
Subject: Re: Cylinder Head gasket for 1984 900 16V changed shape?


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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