My sonett seems to stall when I brake hard. I can be going, say 40 MPH, push in the clutch, brake hard and the car will stall probably somewhere between...
ok i'll take a wack at it but i'm not well versed with saab 4 stroke specifics. what you are describing sounds like a classic low float setting problem i've...
... Float level too low. Assuming this is a FoMoCo carb, it could be anything. I have seen throttle shafts move back and forth enough to make an increased ...
All, Hope everyone had a fun New Years. The center button for grounding the horn cirquit was missing when I got this car. A new one was sourced, and I am...
After having adjusted the rear brakes to my satisfaction, I had a phantom partial lockup of the rear brakes while running a short errand the other day. Got...
... Yes. It has a couple _very_ loose windings around the column. If you wrap it too tight, the wire will tighten too mch when turning one direction. Andy in...
... So GM will build some plastic crap in Mexico. This has exactly what to do with vintage SAABs? _________________________________ Cheers- William "Chip" Lamb...
... I just wish somebody would build me some brake hoses. (Inside joke.) ... What it has to do with vintage SAABs is that it's something else we'll have to be...
... UPS wasn't working today. ... Just laugh and point at yuppies and perhaps the non linear progression will make some sense. ... I was explaining that just...
Tom, how is the rest of the car coming along? Thomas Spoto <trspoto@...> wrote: All, Hope everyone had a fun New Years. The center button for grounding...
Dan, The Sonett is coming along fine. Since I don't have a working welder I had the floor in the "trunk area replaced by a local Volkswagen moder. Heads had to...
... Wouldn't have surprised me. I put the 71 Sonett mags on the 78 today when I put it all back together. Love the ride from the 175/65/15 Continentals. ...
Thanks to those of you who confirmed my suspicions. Regards Tom __________________________________________ Yahoo! DSL – Something to write home about. Just...
I picked up the radiator today and fit an electric fan to it prior to mounting it back on the car. I picked up the fan from a wrecking yard about a year ago...
... This probably isn't the slickest way to do it, but I plumbed mine into the bypass hose, the one that runs from the T down the front of the engine to the...
Tom, Martin Hilvers' site has a good blow-by-blow of the installation: http://members.home.nl/saab96/elfan/96elfan.htm And he's the one the helped me get mine...
... Tom, We build custom Sonett radiators with 900T 16v fans mounted directly to the upper and lower crossmembers (a 99/early 900 fan will work but is HUGE by ...
... Same thing, slightly different core for flow efficiency maintaining the correct cooling system capacity. _________________________________ Cheers- William...
Use a fitting from a 16 valve C900 mounted in the radiator hose, but replace the thermo switch with a cooler one. I am at work now, but can send pictures in...
... On the 99/900 installation, the thermostatic switch is in the line after the radiator, which on the V-4 would mean the lower radiator hose to the water...
... That's not a very practical location, since the fan should _never_ run before the thermostat opens and the car reaches full operating temperature. It also...
... A 99 or 900 (non turbo) fan will fit right on the front of the Sonett radiator, see http://members.home.nl/saab96/sonett/97frontfan.jpg You have to reverse...
Through clicking various links from this list to electric cooling fan installations this morning, I've seen pics of two or three V4s. I noticed something...