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Re: Blown Head Gasket
Posted by Argisinc (more from Argisinc) on Tue, 30 Apr 2002 17:30:36
In Reply to: , Kok Chen, Sat, 17 Dec 1988 12:00:00 

>Fact of life with a Saab: head job every 50K.  If you beat the 50K mile
>mark, keep looking over your shoulder....

  That's utter nonsense!
A sample size of one is meaningless.
I've had two Saabs - my '78 99Turbo, and my '86 900S.
The Turbo kept me broke fixing it in general. This was due to the fact that I 
got some use out of the boost limiter ;-) PLus, I swear that the cylinder 
head was made by Lucas ;-). I wen through 3 cylinder heads in 149K miles, 
which is just about 50K/each.
My '86 just passed 300K, and the engine has never been opened, and still 
pushes 180+ PSI on every cylinder, and gives me 28+ MPG.

So, my two experiences are that the cylinder heads on Saasb either last ~50K, 
or last forever, take your choice.

PS: I took pictures of the odometer rolling over at 300K, too bad there's not 
a picture gallery on TSN.

Bob SYpek
'78 99Turbo, 149K, on Lucas cylinder heads,
'86 900S, 300k+, with pictures to show it.

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