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Yeah, I had exatly the same nightmare a couple of weeks ago, and extracted the old lock cylinder to discover the two tabs busted off in the bottom. Here's my note of a couple of days ago to Jon Williams. Anybody else have anything to add on where to go from here?
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So this morning I turned the heat on in the garage and faced up, at least partially, to the matters at hand. Turns out that the keylock cylinder was fine, the problem was those two flanges that come up from somewhere in the bowels of the gearset had busted clean off. I managed to back out the three antitheft star nuts without having to grind up the special socket (tapped them loose easily with a hammer and drift punch), but I chickened out at this point. The local indy SAAB mechanic (30 mile drive from here) sees me as nothing but trouble and certainly a guy without deep pockets, so he's saying too busy now until after New Years, but clearly he doesn't want to get involved. The car can be driven if I partly reassemble everything, but I'm afraid if I take it any further apart (I do have have a very clean complete shifter unit including potmetal casing with interior gearset, ignition electrics switch, and keyed cylinder (shipped from a S. California junkyard last week for $65 +), but I haven't opened it up to see how everything goes together inside. The file "disassembled_partial shows the present situation, with the key cylinder out. The coat-hanger wire into the release buttonhole worked like a charm.
What I'm afraid of is that if I take it further down, I'll never get the shift linkages all back together. It was a little weird anyway for quite some time: getting into reverse was difficult and clunky when cold (the reverse lockout and key retention arrangement never notably worked, and the the finger uplift protection to put it into reverse never worked at all, as I recollect (I've had that car a bit over two years), but I never whacked it into reverse while intending to reach 4th or fifth.
Is it necessary to remove the stick shift lever to rotate the old box sideways so I can get into the shifter case?? How big a deal is it to totally remove the old case with the busted flange and replace it in toto with the new case, as it?
The textfile attached is a complete compendium from the SAABnet board since about 2003. I have Bentley but it's not really quite clear enough to be confident in just going in their with all wrenches wailing.
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