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Repair Follow-up Posted by Sondeen [Email] (#796) [Profile/Gallery] (more from Sondeen) on Thu, 31 Mar 2016 11:01:49 In Reply to: MT popping out of 1st, Sondeen [Profile/Gallery] , Fri, 11 Mar 2016 09:56:09 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
I failed to diagnose the problem and surrendered, I took the car to the local former Saab Dealer. It turned out to be the roll pin (PN 90490900) that connects one of the shift cable actuated cranks to the tranny input shaft. The roll pin sheared in two places. Those with good memory may recall that I had the same problem with the same pin PN in the other cable actuated crank about 2 years ago and posted about it on this board.
When I was diagnosing my problem this time I did not consider a sheared pin as the cables appeared to move the tranny input cranks properly. In fact I was getting about 95% of the necessary movement out of the shifting mechanism, and was able to drive the car in all gears but first. The sheared pin must have broken in such a way that it was still transferring most of the cable movement to the tranny input shaft. When the other pin failed 2 years earlier, the car went from just fine to one day shifted funny to a few minutes later would not shift at all and car was stuck in neutral. That pin must have sheared more cleanly. Of note is that in the course of my diagnosing effort I did find the bolts that hold the cable bracket to the tranny case were barely tight. This was a red herring, I thought that this was the cause of the shifting going out of adjustment, I was thinking the cable bracket was drifting around over time.
This cost me another 3 hours of labor for a $8 pin.
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