My wife's slave cylinder went out on her 85 900T with about 180k miles. This car is kind of banged up as a tree fell on it (mostly hood damage) and she backed into our snowmobile trailer (tailight and fender damage). I did not want to put a lot of money in it and so I decided to remove and rebuild the slave cylinder.
I followed directions as carefully as possible. I used Dave Hinz' IV method of clutch bleeding and filled the system back up so I could depress the clutch. Coathanger wire was too thin. A piece of vinyl hose (about the thickness of the recommended spark plug wire) was too thick. A piece of 14 guage solid copper with insulation fit.
I have the Bently manual and I have looked at the instructions on
I should mention that the clutch has a much wider diameter opening in the housing than shown in the Bently manual, as it is the older style clutch. It looks exactly like the one shown on
Now I am thinking the clutch slave was not working as well as I thought. I cannot get the clutch out. It is jammed in there. Cannot get the slave out either. It seems I need a lot more clutch depression and to get something as thick as a spark plug wire in there.
Now I think the slave is shot from trying again and I am welcoming suggestions as to how to remove it. I do not have the recommended special SAAB tool for depressing the clutch when the clutch hydraulics is inoperable.
She has a "new" 93 900 Turbo ragtop but she still wants her old car back. However I plan to replace it with a 9000 as soon as I can find one and I really don't want to put a lot of money into this car as I plan to sell it.
Thanks for any assitance,
Charles.