"Ian Duer (320b)" (320b)
12/22/2013 at 18:31 • Filed to: Saab Story, Saab
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"Ian Duer (320b)" (320b)
12/22/2013 at 18:31 • Filed to: Saab Story, Saab | 3
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I've mended something! Unseasonable warmth meant the excuse to drive the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! around to air it out a bit. It was also an opportunity try to catch any problems that arose due to it sitting. I discovered that 5th gear was incredibly vague to engage. It was almost like the lever headed towards an imaginary 7th gear. I'd already noted that the collar under the shift knob didn't seem to be required to enter reverse. As it turns out the two things were related. A parts diagram clued me in to look here.
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The plastic guide plate for 5th gear/reverse lockout had become dislodged.
This is how things should have looked.
Here it is in reverse. Note the black tab lifted over the plastic guide plate. That's apparently what the reverse engagement collar is connected to. Lifting the collar allows the tab to clear the plate.
Airing it out in 60F weather after lightly treating the fabric with some mold killing spray seems to have helped clear some of the funk too.
MonkeePuzzle
> Ian Duer (320b)
12/23/2013 at 10:15 |
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I once upon a time had a car that had a collar that had to be lifted to engage reverse, and every time I did it I thought of Mad Max engaging his supercharger
my 1996 Holden Barina, although pretending to be Australian was not, and did not have a gear lever activated supercharger :(
oh and congrats on fixing a thing! :D
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Ian Duer (320b)
> MonkeePuzzle
12/23/2013 at 12:08 |
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...and now I'm probably going to think of that movie next time I reverse. Fixing a problem is especially nice when it's zero cost and was an irritation each time I drove the car. One down and a few other minor things to go. Now if I can just figure out why the tachometer randomly decides to work or not I'll have to two biggest driver interface complaints sorted. I can drive by ear/feel just fine, but the visual feedback would be nice since I'm sure I'm being overly cautious as to where reline is.
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MonkeePuzzle
> Ian Duer (320b)
12/23/2013 at 12:14 |
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I can understand being overly cautious, I swapped a manual engine with ~8k redline into my Civic that had an auto gauge cluster, never got to have any fun in it until I got a new gauge cluster
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Ian Duer (320b)
> MonkeePuzzle
12/23/2013 at 12:22 |
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It's weird how cars bring up old memories. My first standard vehicle either had no tach or I don't remember it having one because I didn't know what the purpose of a tachometer was. I didn't really have anyone to teach me properly. Weirdly enough it I was on my second manual car when I got a copy of Grand Turismo and that's what actually made me understand that holding low gears longer gave better acceleration. Probably a function of living in the US where manuals are a curiosity that are only on like 10% of cars.
mrazekan
> Ian Duer (320b)
12/23/2013 at 19:15 |
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IIRC, these dashes had sensitive connectors and traces. Could just need the connection to the cluster to be pushed in. Or there is a broken trace and it would need a new cluster. The junkyard is your friend.
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Ian Duer (320b)
> mrazekan
12/23/2013 at 22:37 |
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Thanks for the tip. I'll have to look up the diagrams online I suppose. Still waiting on a good shop manual. I liked the Bently manual for my BMW. Hopefully I can find something of that quality.