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Re: Cluster Bearing .... Advice please .... Posted by Justin VanAbrahams [Email]  (#32) [Profile/Gallery]
(more from Justin VanAbrahams) on Tue, 22 Apr 2014 15:06:00
In Reply to: Cluster Bearing .... Advice please ...., robert Hakalski, Tue, 22 Apr 2014 14:53:19 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
Sounds like you need a new mechanic, or at the very least got a bad transmission rebuild - and maybe need to reconsider the way you're having the car repaired... eg, why didn't you inspect & replace the harmonic balancer when the transmission (and engine) were out of the car? All old cars - Saab or otherwise - can nickel and dime their owners to death unless a more holistic approach to maintenance and repair is taken, and that goes double if you're paying someone else for labor! Parts are cheap, but frequently the labor involved in installing them is not.
Personally, I don't feel like 70k is a terribly ambitious goal for your car given the work you've described was done properly and with good parts, save of course oil changes, spark plug changes, and possibly brakes along the way. I tore my '85 SPG with 246k (at the time) down in 2010 for a general rehab and it's not been touched since save a new battery.
If you are staring down the barrel of a 16 hour transmissionectomy, look at everything else that should be done while he's there - everything rubber, for instance. Frankly, I'd throw in a big cooling system overhaul too - water pump, hoses, thermostat, etc. The cooling system will be empty and easily accessible, so do it.
Of course cars from the '80s (of which a '93 900 is one) were not designed to go 100k between services like modern cars, but you can get pretty close... just remember, to get those like-new intervals between services, you need to restore the car to like-new condition!
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