Richard Welty responds to Tim Buja with ...
it seems unlikely; saab did quite a bit of redesign when they
went from the 1.85L Triumph engine to the 2.0L B-engine (and
It seems that I may have unintentionally restricted the scope of
Tim's posting. Tim wrote the article and I, totally oblivious to
SAAB's subsequent redesigns of the Triumph engine, generated the
Subject: line when I reposted it. Based on Richard's article, a more
general Subject: line would read: SAAB turbo -> TR-7. Or better yet,
no Subject: line at all. Please consider his questions in that light.
(My SAAB experiences ended after my V-4 95 balance shaft bearings
got loose enough to misalign and crunching all the timing gears. Of
course this didn't happen around the corner on a summer afternoon, we
were in the middle of Iowa, 1300 miles from home, it was New Years Eve
with below zero temperatures and a major winter storm due to arrive
sometime in the next 12 hours. To make a long story short, we found a
local guy who had been working on SAABs since 1963 and had a pile of
V-4 engines sitting around. He had retired and bought a corner gas
station to build dune buggys in. He gave us full reign of his
heated(!) garage, tools, solvent baths and spare engines, said 'have
at it', then stood back to watch and dispense advice. So Anne and I,
my sister and a girlfriend of hers pulled the engine, replaced the
gears, put it all back together and were back on the road to Salt Lake
City in two days. But we never trusted the car after that and parked
it. Eventually it got tagged in a rock slide behind the house and
we ended up selling it to some visionary.)
Lawrence Buja
ccm0b@vm.cc.purdue.edu
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