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Oy... So I'm driving the '93 900S FrankenSaab from Madison down to Iowa in order to help my in-laws move their stuff into a new place. All is well on the road until I get into Mt. Vernon IA, when, while coasting through town, I notice a couple of hiccups-- brief moments in which I lost power; one, maybe two second lapses, but then all would be well and the car drove on like a champ.
Until it didn't. I'm driving along highway 1 towards Iowa City. As I was about midway across the bridge that spans the Cedar river, my 900 just locked-up on me and I consider myself lucky merely to get it off of the driving lane but still-- I'm on the side of the road of a bridge on a fairly busy highway.
I can get through the gears, both forward and reverse, but the car WILL NOT move. I got a tow to a friends place where I spent the night. When it was being winched onto the flat-bed (front first) I looked to see whether the (front) drive wheels were turning and it seemed as if the driver's side wheel was locked.
My first and wishful thought was that a brake pad had come loose from it's carrier and it could be a relatively easy fix. However, removal of the DS tire and inspection of the brake assembly revealed nothing suggestive of the cause of catastrophic failure. Nonetheless, I removed the brake caliper and pads, no help. I jacked up the PS of the car to suspend both of the front wheels, started the car and tried to get the wheels to spin-- no go. With the car off and transmission in neutral, we could spin the PS wheel by hand and watch the DS rotor spin in opposite direction without much difficulty.
At this point I've settled on a "blown transmission" diagnosis and am scrambling to get both my self and my car back home so I can consider options going forward, including a more thorough examination of symptoms as time might allow. I will admit that the transmission was transplanted from my '88 900S at a time when it had 386k mi on the clock; I've gotten an additional 65k miles of service out of it since the transplant so I can't bitch-- except for the fact that its apparent failure happened many miles from home, and on a frickin' bridge, but I digress.
What I am hoping for from this post is some input from the community re: the proper way to tell if the tranny is toast or if there is another potential cause of my present problem(s). That is, once I get it back home to the comfortable confines of my heated garage, what's the next step to help me suss-out what's wrong? I think it's the transmission, but maybe I'm jumping to that conclusion and am missing some other, perhaps less expensive problem and perhaps someone could help me either confirm or change the diagnosis/prognosis.
Thanks in advance, Scott
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