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Re: Saab vs. Monte Carlo & Adjusting Parking Brake
Posted by Paul Henderson (more from Paul Henderson) on Wed, 5 Jan 2000 19:06:59
In Reply to: , Kok Chen, Sat, 17 Dec 1988 12:00:00 

The Monte Carlo is a ~3500 pound, 200 inch long beast designed (or shall 
I say cobbled together) to move two people down the road. 75% of the car 
is there for style. 

The rest of the car is two bucket seats behind a huge, push rod (!) engine
based upon V-8's of the 1960's. (It still has the 90 degree angle between
banks of the old V-8's rather than the more optimal 60 degree angle used
for modern V-6's. You might be too young to remember that in the gas crisis
of the 70's, the American manufacturers cut 2 cylinders off their V-8's to
improve fuel economy, and only Ford has produced a modern V-6 since. Watch
the engine shake in its mounts to see what I mean).

The engine is mated to an electronic AUTOMATIC transmission, the equivalent
of taking Valium before a drive. (I, for one, don't want some computer chip
to decide when I should shift, but of course, with a 3.8 liter V-6 in
front, who cares).

The only utility the car has is a huge trunk and (revelation!!) fold
down rear seats! (they've been in every SAAB I've had since my first
'68 96 DeLuxe).

On the plus side, the inevitable repairs are easily handled by any
garage on any corner of America. But that's not saying much. I'd
rather have a car that starts to get a tailwind at 100K miles rather
than being headed for the junkyard.
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Having just installed resurfaced rotors and new brake pads on my
'94 9000CS, I screwed in the adjusting screws on the rear calipers to
bring the pistons into the calipers, then mounted the calipers back up.

Then the parking brake lever went all the way to the top without grabbing,
so I adjusted the cables by removing the lever's cover and turning
the two adjusting nuts. The lever now goes up only three clicks, but
the parking brakes still do not grab! There must be something I missed.

Thanks for any help!

Paul Henderson

Paul Henderson
'94 9000CS (99K miles... all on original brake pads)
In Heaven: '84 900, '72 96, '68 96 DeLuxe, '67 96 popper
In Hell: '76 99GL, '82 900T
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