Wish me luck, year shocks today.

Today, I'm going to be swapping the rear shocks over, if the gods are smiling on me, rather than having a crafty smirk.

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in article snipped-for-privacy@news.cis.dfn.de, MeatballTurbo at snipped-for-privacy@bouncing-czechs.com wrote on 15/11/2003 10:51:

Good luck with it. I'll keep my Saab fingers crossed for you.

Paul

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Paul Halliday

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I got the wheel off on the first side.

Spent half an hour searching in the boot as the Haynes said for the top mount. Then found it in the outside wheel arch.

Bottom mount completley seized as far as I can see, and top nuts pretty well jammed.

Gave up.

Will leave it to the experts over at Saab Higher oak, when I put it in to get the front wheel bearing done. Not going through another weekend of damage and panic again. Will just give it a bloody good wash tomorrow if the weather holds.

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MeatballTurbo

I wouldn't have the slightest idea where to start. What's the procedure? How do u support the car? Do u have to hold up the car in one corner or ask sonny to do it?

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Johannes H Andersen

in article snipped-for-privacy@news.cis.dfn.de, MeatballTurbo at snipped-for-privacy@bouncing-czechs.com wrote on 15/11/2003 14:28:

Bad luck. Still, it's best to know when to stop.

Too right. If it's okay until you can get it to the specialists, it's not worth the heartache.

At least it will look better. I always find washing and waxing the beast makes it drive a whole load better ;)

Paul

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Paul Halliday

Sat, 15 Nov 2003 14:28:51 -0000, skreiv MeatballTurbo :

You have a 900, rignt? In my sweedish Haynes it stands that the nuts are in the wheelbase.

In my car, the top nuts were very jammed, AND there was two of them. I ended up using my Dremel, and cut the nuts to pices. ;)

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Trond-Arve Hjelle

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Jack up car, put on an axle stand on a solid piece of the floor/frame

Place trolley jack under the rear axle frame (Where the hub attaches) and lift to take the load off the spring and relax the shock a little.

Then right at the top of the inner arch, you can see a tube that the shock sits in. It actually ends inside the wheel arch itself, bt inside the boot/trunk/luggage area.

The standard sachs shock has a locknut (two slim nuts) arrangement (17mm) at the top. At the bottom it is a 19mm nut and bolt.

Both appear to be very rusty in my case.

You can actually do it from outside the car, you don't need to work in the luggage area/boot at all.

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MeatballTurbo

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Yeah, normally brute force an ignorance leads the way, but today I got a spark of inspiration and put the wheel back on.

I know. You know what my luck hs been like latly, didn't want to push it.

Still need to sort out a squeaky clutch pedal, gather the filter oil etc for the next oil change, and decide whether it is the PS pump, or water pump that squeaks loude rthan the vac bottle can moo.

Thank god I'm not the only one who has noticed that.

Give it a good wash, clean the wheels, and go check the tyre pressure. And the car drives 100% better, with nothing done to it (even if the pressures were correct in the first place).

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Inside my UK Haynes (Burgundy/dark red cover with suppliments for the

16v models) it says undo the shock inside the luggage area.
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I was told to cut away the old rubber bushings first to allow me to grip the old shock shaft with a pair of mole grips or pump pliers etc.

Yes, two slim 17mm nuts arranged as a lock nut.

I decided, before removing the top nuts/cutting the bushings, I would try at least loosen all the nuts/bolts first.

That was when I discovered that a) the top nuts wouldn't shift without pursasion. b) the bottom nut and bolt wouldn't shift period. c) it looks like the panhard rod and radius arm bushes (I believe together they make a watts link) are pretty shot, and could do with replacing anyway.

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MeatballTurbo

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Apologies for any rubbish posted tonight.

Very drunk after watching a dodgy Kvcd copy of Matrix Revolutions, Billy Connolly Bafta Tribute, and Parkinson with Peter Kay, Dame Judy Dench and Will young, while consuming three bottles of very cheap, very nasty wine including a French Rose, and a Greek White that smelt like sherry and tasted like socks.

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MeatballTurbo

ack.. you don't take rusted parts well at all!

I think that from what I know of the video stuff, it seems to match the wine...

Next time, try an australian shiraz, a decent riesling, and avoid greek wines (especially the traditional ones with resin...).

Best to go from dry to sweet, so the shiraz ought to be first, and the riesling last. A Rose might go in between, but that's a bit of wine, there.

Know how you feel, went furniture shopping looking for some simple cabinets for a dining room redo to library....

Sticker shock is a horrible thing...

Harvey

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Harvey White

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Oh no worries on that, I know. We had already polished off a bottle of Garnet Point Grenache Zinfandel. It's a very nice very drinkable pleasant Rose, but the other two were brough back by various members of the GFs family, and while under the influence, seemed a good idea.

I know Retsina is a very aquired taste. I have never yet managed to aquire it :)

I'm not a wine buff by any means, though I did used to run a wine aisle in a supermarket, so had to get to know a little about the types, although I have forgotten most it by now.

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MeatballTurbo

Hmmm... TWI... Thinking While Intoxicated....

We bought one bottle, tried one or two sips... Decided that the acquisition of that taste wasn't worth the effort. Probably explains a lot about the ancient Greeks.....

I (now on hiatus) made wine, but from kits, not from the grapes themselves. Surprisingly easy, it was.

Price would be about 2 to 3 dollars a bottle, roughly, equivalent to a good consumer wine, if not a bit more.

Harvey

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Harvey White

MeatballTurbo ( snipped-for-privacy@bouncing-czechs.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

Get it back up, get the wheel off again, and wire brush as much crap off the nuts as you can, then spray them heavily in penetrating oil. If possibly, get your head inside the arch and spray them again every day until you get the car to the garage.

Your friendly specialist WILL thank you for this.

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Adrian

Harvey White ( snipped-for-privacy@ix.netcom.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

Retsina's lovely - when drunk in Greece...

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Adrian

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You might be right in that. With the local temperatures, and smells in the air, and the food you eat while drinking it can all make somethings seem delighful while on holiday, and yet taste like a bottle of varnish remover when you get some back home.

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MeatballTurbo

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I'll get onto it. Sounds like a plan. I've got a nice pouring can of Plus gas, rather than an aerosol, really don't like spray stuff anywhere near my brakes.

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MeatballTurbo

That must have been the problem. Half a world away, and centuries different in taste.

then again, I like both escargot and sushi.. just not in the same meal...

Harvey

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Harvey White

I've made beer from a kit (not pale Lagers, but proper dark brown beer). Was fairly reasonable, and everyone who tried it (from lager to guniness drinkers) said it was really good.

Not bad for a first attempt I guess.

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