You Snooze, You Lose

"Urambo Tauro" (urambotauro) 07/16/2018 at 12:00 • Filed to: saab 900, project, wrenching

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Not much Saab progress to report this week. This was a busy weekend, with a couple more busy weekends ahead, for reasons I’ll get into below.

Spent some time hunting down parts and scraping gasket surfaces, though. It looks like gaskets for this engine are starting to get harder to find.

The one for the rear of the block, that seals it against the starter mounting plate, is apparently unobtanium now. My brother has one possible lead that he’s looking into, but we’re thinking about just using a gasket maker instead. There is evidence of oil leaking past this old gasket, so maybe it would be better to take advantage of modern gasket-maker formulas and use RTV or anaerobic sealant instead. Unlike this car’s “oil pan” gasket, the thickness of the rear plate gasket isn’t really critical for shimming anything.

Progress will likely be slow during the next couple of weeks, as we prepare for our sister’s upcoming wedding. (Which reminds me- you ever suddenly remember an old Kinja comment out of the blue? I was reminded of !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! the other day. Sorry, Mac. You snooze, you lose haha.)

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shop-teacher > Urambo Tauro 07/16/2018 at 13:10

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Ha! I actually remember that comment.

Congrats on the impending marriage of your sister and Country Mac's Ocular Patdown.

Urambo Tauro > shop-teacher 07/16/2018 at 13:20

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Oh man, it would be hilarious if her fiancé turned out to be the owner of that very Kinja handle. (I doubt it, though. The guy’s not really into cars, and asked me if Toyotas were “good”.)

shop-teacher > Urambo Tauro 07/16/2018 at 13:21

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Yeah , that’s definitely not him then.