Jiffy's Saab 93

[Jiffy]

After 500 miles happy motoring, this happened:

The occasional slight misfire became a major misfire. I was happily doing 60 in 5th when it started misfiring really badly then lost all power. I pulled over and couldn't restart it so it was RAC to the rescue. He reckoned it's the DI cartridge and, judging by what I've been reading on the forums, it seemed the logical conclusion:

I found one on Ebay for £40 that had supposedly only been used for 2 weeks. Once it turned up, I ignored the burnt smell from it and put it in the car (after keeping it upright for an hour beforehand to allow the fluid inside to settle) but it still wouldn't start. It span over fine and rev counter moved up. The spark plugs stunk of petrol but there was zero ignition. I spent ages trying to work out what else could be wrong with the car.

In the end, I decided to buy another DIC. I bought one with leather seats and 4 alloys wheels along the rest of a car attached to it:

It's really swish. It's a B205 lpt but an SE so it's got all the toys. It's really gorgeous inside and out but failed it's MOT on front suspension struts. It was also smoking on startup. I paid £250 for it so couldn't lose whatever happened. After 11 miles, 'whatever' happened!

The clutch went! It had no drive so it was RAC to the rescue again. Anyway, once back home, I put the DIC from the 2nd Saab into the first Saab and after changing a blown fuse it started. I put the Ebay DIC in and it was no go so I sent that back and got my money back.

Next thing was to check the brakes over and give the car a full service. I got fully synthetic GM 5w30 from NeoBrothers along with original oil filter. I used cheap alternatives for air and pollen filters. The oil that came out of the engine was surprisingly clean. I am used to jet black oil all the time. Regardless, I decided to chuck in some 10w40 Castrol semi-synthetic for a few days as a kind of engine flush. After less than a hundred miles, I put the fully synthetic 5w30 in:

Changing the pollen filter was a bit of a palaver but well worth changing:

I could feel a big difference in air flow inside the car afterwards.

Next job the brakes. I had been hearing some noise from the brakes and feeling some vibration. They were all in good order except for one disc with corrosion on it:

I took it out and did some heavy braking and that cleaned it up nicely.