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Re: Manual Transmission & Smell? Should I worry?
Posted by Joe Dille (more from Joe Dille) on Sat, 26 Feb 2000 09:36:58
In Reply to: Manual Transmission & Smell? Should I worry?, Jeffrey Tarnoff, Fri, 25 Feb 2000 22:18:02 
Jeff,

Sounds like you burned your clutch.   The clutch friction material 
has a unique bitter smell.   It is possible with a lot of abuse or a 
factory defect to fry a clutch in 14000 miles.  I don't know much 
about Saab clutches, but it is one of those jobs that takes a lot of 
work to get to the parts.  It is important to get all the suspect parts 
changed.

That would be clutch disk, pressure plate and possibly flywheel.  
The dealer may hesitate to change the flywheel.  Ask to see it 
before they button it up, if they say it does not need changing.  (it 
may not, but most likley it does.)  A bad flywheel will look burnt 
and have slight cracks in the surface.

Drive Safe,

Joe
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