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This is a great help. I live in the uk and i just bought a cab saab 9-3 aero 2006 2 litre as my first car, instantly fell in love with it. I just stumbled across your channel and definitely will be subscribing. Keep up the great work brother you’re the man.
Hey. Great. Another informative video! One thing though. The oil leak looks like it might be from the timing chain cover. When this starts leaking on a 9-3 it can be the beginnings of trouble. My 2004 Aero was leaking from the chain cover for a while and then the water pump broke. I thought I could just replace the water pump but no. I was told by a Saab specialist that if the water pump breaks 9 times out of ten the timimg chain guide has broken. So I gave them the job and yep broken guides. The timimg chain tensioner pushes the guides against the chain but after the guide broke the tensioner was pushing against the chain. It was noiser but still ran. After the repair the engine was so much queiter. My Saab had done around 225 thousand kilometres by this point. Just thought I'd share this info. If your water pump starts dripping you'll now why. Cheers from downunder.
Where can I buy those rims?
Hey just started to do my research on Saabs . And i found you so i will be benjing for awhile. What got my intrest is the 9-7, but normally when i switch brands i have to buy my partner something. So i like your information on the sedans.
That is the cleanest pulley side of a 2.0T I have seen yet. Nice.
Dude the first time I did one of those tensioners, I spent a couple hours looking for a way to extract that bolt either with or without the tensioner….all while colorfully describing the engineers in charge of that design. Eventually I figured out there is a path to take that long dang bolt and tensioner along to work it out of there pretty easy. It literally is a maze to run it through to get to the bottom of the frame. Still a great engine though, if cared for properly.
I just did this a few days ago. I didn't try to go in from below. I used a jack with a wood pad under the engine and removed the engine mount and the bracket from the engine. If you jack the engine up a couple of inches the tensioner bolt comes clear of the frame rail and is easily removed and reinserted. I removed the wheel but not the wheel liner to enable aligning the belt on the crank and A/C pulley. The total job took less than 1.5 hours. You wasted time removing the wheel liner and trying to go in from below. I had previously made my own tensioner tool using a piece of flat bar and a piece cut off a small 3/8" square drive extension welded into a hole. That way you can clock the stub at 45 degrees. Lastly, those plastic nuts on the body studs for the wheel liner will break them off if you don't first heat them up a bit with a torch or a heat gun before removing them.
Had to do this job on the paddock asphalt at what would have been the world rallycross track named Hell back in 2020 when mine snapped the second we arrived at the track. Local shop had exactly one belt left and no special tool so we used a 3/8th breaker bar and another bar to push the engine back on its mounts to we could shove the breaker in there to fit the tensioner. Would not recommend. belt snapped due to oil getting on it so i changed the infamous seals down at the crankshaft and the servo pump later on, but that was at my shop and not on a track thankfully
Oh man that was brutal! I had a similar experience yesterday while pulling off the AC compressor bracket on my Subaru…I could turn the bolt like 3 degrees at a time. It was hilariously frustrating. I could almost hear that Creed song playing in the distance LOL
Wow. Tough job and you were fearless. Wonder what the book says for the trick to getting that tensioner in place.
Cześć. Oglądam Cię już kilka lat. Zawsze bardzo dobre filmy. Mam już 4 Saaba i kocham je tak jak ty;) Pozdrawiam z Polski Hubert
Very good my friend
Do you have the belt # Thanks
what rims are those?
The belt has an easier route than ( my own) previous OG 9-3 , but seems more difficult to access in order to replace it
When the video started I said. Have to remove the motor mount and it’s still a pain in the ass. I cursed Saab engineers a few times working on that side of the engine.