I'll try to be clear as I can, and I think it may be easy for someone to help me out here, because of a few details I noticed right before it died.
Over the last few days, the car has been a little harder to start than usual, like 4 seconds or so, of cranking, rather than the usual 1 second or so. Then, tonight, I stopped for gas, fueled up, started it, it fired right up, then just shut off. I tried starting it for a minute or two, then, it nearly started at one point, seemed like it fired a little, not enough to start tho. Then I just kept trying to start it, killed the battery, charged it, and still it won't start.
I don't think it's the fuel pump, cause it would have atleast stuttered a little or something, and I don't think it's the timing chain because it wouldn't have nearly started the one time, or could it? It sounds normal when it cranks, no warning lights at all, very well maintained also.
What sucks is I had a spare DIC, the red thing (I'm a saab newbie still), in the back, but someone stepped on it, my bad for not putting it in the hatch rather than behind my seat.
Is this most likely the DIC? Also, where it broke is just one of the cone type things, that runs down to the plug or whatever, um, would it be safe to use a kind of epoxy with a clamp and get it good and tight, or should I just find one at a junk yard?
Any advice at all would be great, I've had it a while now, and this is the only trouble I've had, sucks too, the car has been loving the cold weather, it runs perfect otherwise, up until tonight.
Thanks in advance
-Dave
-- 1995 900SE
engine modds - CAI, MBC, intercooler, bov, exhaust - nothing that would really relate to this problem tho, all the other modds having nothing to do with it, brakes, susp.. etc
Over the last few days, the car has been a little harder to start than usual, like 4 seconds or so, of cranking, rather than the usual 1 second or so. Then, tonight, I stopped for gas, fueled up, started it, it fired right up, then just shut off. I tried starting it for a minute or two, then, it nearly started at one point, seemed like it fired a little, not enough to start tho. Then I just kept trying to start it, killed the battery, charged it, and still it won't start.
I don't think it's the fuel pump, cause it would have atleast stuttered a little or something, and I don't think it's the timing chain because it wouldn't have nearly started the one time, or could it? It sounds normal when it cranks, no warning lights at all, very well maintained also.
What sucks is I had a spare DIC, the red thing (I'm a saab newbie still), in the back, but someone stepped on it, my bad for not putting it in the hatch rather than behind my seat.
Is this most likely the DIC? Also, where it broke is just one of the cone type things, that runs down to the plug or whatever, um, would it be safe to use a kind of epoxy with a clamp and get it good and tight, or should I just find one at a junk yard?
Any advice at all would be great, I've had it a while now, and this is the only trouble I've had, sucks too, the car has been loving the cold weather, it runs perfect otherwise, up until tonight.
Thanks in advance
-Dave
-- 1995 900SE
engine modds - CAI, MBC, intercooler, bov, exhaust - nothing that would really relate to this problem tho, all the other modds having nothing to do with it, brakes, susp.. etc