Sounds like you know your Saabs, man!
It's not that bad doing the oil pan on the 9-5. That's one thing you should definitely do to check for sludge. Sludge is what killed the original engine in my wagon. Then I put the second one in and didn't check it and had to go back and drop the pan to clean the screen. The 9-3 you have to partially drop the sub frame (I just did my mom's convertible) the 9-5 you do not. When I did mine, I took off the top motor mount and pulled the engine up with a engine lift, but my motor mounts are bad so my engine was sitting on the frame. I had to do it that way to get to the bolts on the side. I think I supported it with a block of wood on a jack under the tranny but I don't remember, its been 4 years. The other thing, I can't remember if it was an aero manual thing or a thing for the manuals for the first two years. The oil pan and the lower tranny cover are one whole piece. You have to cut to holes in the side of the pan to get to the last two bolts. I'll try and find it for you, it was a pain. I hope you don't have that pan. I got rid of mine and put a normal one on mine. I'll get the oil pan write up too for you. To me, the most aggravating part (after finding out about those bolts being covered lol) was getting the pan back on with gasket sealer since these cars don't have a oil pan gasket. I kept bumping the bottom of the engine smudging the sealant but I eventually got it.
Thanks for the info I really appreciate it. This car got the new PCV system early but I definitely NEED to do this anyway for my own peace of mind, if nothing else. Even if the sludge isn't BAD, that pickup screen's still probably loaded with junk after this many miles (208k).
No problem. I was going to take the trunk liner out that side of the car but I figured you didn't want to do that much work, and I didn't want to break it cause I know I wouldn't have had the patients to get it off thats why I cut that whole piece like that. I want to do a aux input in my wagon but I want Bluetooth (I'm lazy don't want to plug nothing up). What I've found out, that I'm going to do, is that the Samsung Tab S 10.5 fits perfectly in the dash over the radio/sid/hvac controls. Once I trim the holding clips for them I can push them back enough so the tablet will sit flush on the dash. Then I have to make a small hinged holder to sit the tablet in so it can swing out when I have to get to the hvac controls/see the sid. It gives me a nice Tesla look to my dash. I just wish I could get sid and hvac controls to be on the tablet then I wouldn't have to move it at all. This pic is sid, radio and hvac out the dash and the tablet sitting there to get a glimpse of how it will look.
Haha that's dope!
I'm going see of I can find out. It only makes sense since everything else on these cars electronic wise is only changeable with the tech 2. Since the both sid and hvac are computer/digitally controlled I don't see why some app couldn't be written to control them from the tablet. Now you got me wondering.
Took me maybe 20-30 min to make over the course of a few days to let glue/sealant dry. $5 USB extension cable and some adhesives. Here's how I did mine...
No problem, I'm glad they can get used. I was going to use them on my wagon but I think I'm going to go with some custom made LED ones. I want to try and integrate white and yellow leds together into one housing and use that switching adaptor that turns the white off when I hit the signals but have it all look like the factory lights.
Im definitely going to try that usb one. Could use that in the wife's car too. I always like to go for that clean factory installed look. I never like when aftermarket looks aftermarket lol. That's the reason I'm going with the tablet covering everything because I can't stand the different color of the bezel and the way the double din touch screens poke out a little on the dash. I seen so many installs and they all do the same thing and have that same color variant, they just don't look good to me.
I'm like you, I NEED it to be clean. Not perfect, but clean, flush, etc. I'm pretty happy with mine given the somewhat tight budget and small amount of labor. Factory scheme has gray AND black plastic everywhere anyway. I am bummed they couldn't get the bezel color right though.
Right steering knuckle, wheel bearing and hub assembly. I just found out I have a bad wheel bearing and since it has to press in maybe I'll just replace the whole thing to make it easier!
Okay, I just have to get the car up off the wheels and take it off. I remove parts as they are asked for. Good thing you caught me I was beginning to think nobody else wanted anything else and I was going to pull it to the yard.
It looks good. Only problem I would have with it is the color difference between the radio frame and the sid and hvac controls. That was one thing I loved about Big Bertha (my 91 9000 turbo) she had a triple din dash. I cut the middle out between two dins and had a double din Kenwood ddx-7017 in there. The dash was the right dark shade of grey so it looked factory. I don't like the weird color grey that's in the 9-5's now it don't match the aftermarkets and since I'm so picky it drives me crazy lol. Sorry about the late reply, I didn't get an alert that you posted.
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I thought about doing that once and found it was a real pain in the neck. There are a couple of things that you will need to deal with:
They are there but the driver's front window is cracked, cracked it taking it off when the window popped out the and I had to replace the regulators. The rear is fine but I have to double check to be sure.
I have a couple options now. One being I just found out about the bluesaab or saabblue (forgot the name just that quick) Bluetooth controller that plugs into the cd changer harness and let's you control Bluetooth devices thru the radio or steering wheel controls. The other option being what I was going to do. That would be a 3.5mm plugged into the headphone jack of the tablet, take that wire and solder it to either the stereo input of the cassette inside the radio or the stereo input of the cd player inside the head unit. I don't listen to the radio so no need to worry about that and far as steering controls I don't use those either since they are on the right side of the steering wheel and my right hand is always shifting, they have become useless to me. Although I will have to find myself using the volume control button since the tablet will be blocking the radio. I've become accustomed to the radio controls being on the left side of the wheel like in my SUV. I'm going to get it all in there set up how I want it one way or another, I'm to stubborn not to lol
