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  April 14, 2011 6:33 p.m. mad_machine SuperDork

  All that taptaptaptapping she has been doing the past two months came to a head today with a series of nasty metallic sounds on the way home from work. She still got me home, but way down on power and big on noise.

  Thankfully I got the TI back on the road just in time.

  Watch this space as I delve into what went wrong with my 2.1

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  April 14, 2011 7:14 p.m. imirk Reader

  Long live the SAAB?

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  April 14, 2011 7:16 p.m. JtspellS Reader

  Everyone loves carnage sooooooo........

  Pics after tear down?

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  April 14, 2011 7:30 p.m. 4cylndrfury SuperDork

  For whatever reason, all I could think of was this:

  

  Ralphie said: With as much dignity as he could muster, the Old Man gathered up the sad remains of his shattered [ DD ]. Later that night, alone in the backyard, he buried it next to the garage. Now I could never be sure, but I thought that I heard the sound of "Taps" being played, gently

  looking forward to the resurrection...

  Real cars only have one header!

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  April 14, 2011 8:40 p.m. mad_machine SuperDork

  there will be a resurrection. I was hoping she would last long enough for me to get the Ti back on the road.. almost to the day it seems

  Mercenary Stage Hand: When the money's gone, so am I.

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  April 14, 2011 9:11 p.m. oldeskewltoy Reader

  mad_machine wrote: Watch this space as I delve into what went wrong with my 2.1

  if a head gasket hasn't been done on this yet.... I vote the head gasket

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  April 14, 2011 9:29 p.m. donalson SuperDork

  don't go saabing to your momma ;-)... sorry someone had to do it....

  sad to hear :( death of a loved car sux lol

  "Just because you can think outside of the box, it doesn't mean we are going to let you out of it." ~ John Brown

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  April 15, 2011 9:43 a.m. Tyler H Dork

  If I had a SAAB and it died, I would also suspect that my wife had something to do with its demise.

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  April 15, 2011 9:52 a.m. GregW New Reader

  Sounds like a broken valve spring or keepers. Possible the timing chain guide wore down to metal. Hopefully the pistons are still intact.

  I gave up on my SAAB 99s when they were 17 yeares old with over 220k on each. They were just too expensive to fix as good non leaking cylinder heads were impossible to find.

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  April 17, 2011 10:41 a.m. mad_machine SuperDork

  The problems began with the HG replacement I did in Feb. I ran great for about a month and then the slight tapping grew louder and louder until it got really loud last thursday.

  I am thinking either a bent valve either let go, or the keepers as you say. The sound was definatly from cylinders 2 or 3 and from right about the valve area..

  Mercenary Stage Hand: When the money's gone, so am I.

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