front end noise (c900)

Hopefully helpful wild guesses!

Are the springs seated properly in their caps? Are the shock bushes sitting & tightened properly but *not* overtightened. Dim memory tells me I've had problems with both those about

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Oops - let's try again - this time with the original post. Sorry!

Hopefully helpful wild guesses!

Are the springs seated properly in their caps? Are the shock bushes sitting & tightened properly but *not* overtightened. Dim memory tells me I've had problems with both those about

Given Sod's Law, almost certainly the bolt you couldn't torque !

Graham

Clicking and cracking noises at low speed in tight turns is an indication for worn CV joints.

They should be, since I didn't have the springs out at any time.

Definitely not overtightened. Undertightened if anything.

I tried to err on the side of overtightening those. I wonder if they are too tight? Not sure how that would translate into what I'm hearing, though.

John

I'd suspect one of the CV joints - have a good look at the boots for both the inner and outer CV joints on each driveshaft and look for signs of damage or rubber breaking up just from general usage. I've had one of the outer CV's replaced on my 1983 900S about 6 months ago.

If you can get the car to a good Saab mechanica ask them to give the CV's a thorough inspection - they'll be able to tell if anything is wrong even if the boots themselves are completely intact.

Regards,

Craig.

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If you replaced the MacPherson struts and did not tighten the nut which holds the cartridge in the housing. the cartridge will move freely in the housing, which will cause popping soung. Once you tighten the nut, it'l be fine. If the nut is tight, you must look elsewhere.

The C900 doesn't have McP struts (nasty, cheapskate suspension setups grumble grumble) .

You're calling struts the nasty setup, yes, I hope?

Indeed - horrible engineering compromise done for the sake of accommodating the transverse-engine-side-gearbox setup that is now ubiquitous.

in article snipped-for-privacy@individual.net, Dave Hinz at snipped-for-privacy@spamcop.net wrote on 08/08/2005 21:40:

I read it as sarcasm, initially :)

Paul

Vart tog vägen vägen? SAAB : Nothing on earth comes close

Couldn't agree more about the 'orrible compromise bit, but if memory serves, they were first introduced by Ford on pretty well its whole range of NS engined rwd cars, while fwd cars other than Citroen or BMC largely continued with wishbones, shocks and coils until the curse of the accounting department blighted them all with pogo sticks. Cheers