Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 21:42:26 -0400 From: Four Weis <mweinopsamcom> Subject: Re: '86 Saab 900 Auto Tranny Lazy & Shiftless
You have either maintained your transmission or you are lucky. Most automatics from that era have a history of failing. Consider yourself fortunate to have an '86 900 with a working auto. Try the cleaning procedure in the manual. If it fails you may need to empty out your wallet. If the body has no rust this car could be worth the cost of replacing the transmission, otherwise part it out. If it had a manual tranmission and no rust, I know of at least three people who would buy it today. I went to a Saab "show" at a Saab/Volvo repari shop this weekend. They had the 9-5 Aero wagon, 9-5 sedan and 9-3 Viggen. The person coordinating the show and two customers besides me wanted to buy a 900 classic with a manual transmission. We all lost our 900s to either rust or accidents. The common plea was "to get my old Saab back". Everyone drove the new Saabs for fun, but everyone wanted to buy a 900 Classic. If you only had a manual transmission in your car. . . BobR wrote: > My '86 with around 130k has developed lazy shifting. > > It wants to stay in low gear way too long and I have to modulate the > pedal to kinda persuade it to shift, which it does eventually. I only > sporadically can get kickdown once it's in high gear. > > Gear positions seem to select properly except that I notice the > necessity to give it just a touch of gas when selecting Reverse to get > it into gear, although it never fails to do so. > > I thought this just started on Fri, but now realize that a lack of power > I've been noticing periodically was actually the trans not kicking down > when necessary. > > So... any chance it's just that easy and cheap "clean the governor" > procedure procedure I see in the service manual? Or is it the less > popular "clean out Bob's wallet til there's nothin' left but some fuzz" > ? > > Anybody who's experienced this? How'd it go?
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