nipper

i have always used interstate 60 month batteries. nipper

hehe i get the funny fealing that if one was to follow this far enough that it is a design standard ... or goes back to a lawyer. i always felt that if somone wanted to have fresh toast in the bathtub, more power to them nipper

a freind of mine got one during the "employee pricing" from gm and it was dirt cheap compared to the subrau ...then they ran out of stock. nipper

GM uses a "conditoner" on some of its engines for external leaks also. As long as it comes from OE i would use it. The outback i have now was alwayse serviced by the dealer (by the previous owner) so maybe thats why it has 180K on the original gaskets ...or luck.... nipper

good scans ..... its a hybrid trying to do the best of both worlds, but still has a lag as the vsicous couplings "hook up". And i said visocous coupling .... in its pure form so thhhrrrrrppppppttttttttt :-p Just means it react faster then a normla couling but i bet if you could get one of these buggers an a 4wd wheel dyno yould see the electronic version reacts faster ..... if there is such a thing .... always wondered about that

er um we arent niinies. If you hit the kill switch it kills the vacume or power supply to ther servo overriding all the other power to the cruise control. I guess you have to be in a runaway car to apreciate that kill switch.... and yes at 70 mph all your going to do is fry your breaks as the cruise control tries to keep the car going at 70 if there is a malfunction. nipper

If it is what i think it is, the LSD is a viscous coupling and not a LSD like we are used to thinking (cone clutches or clutch pack). that mystery fluid is silicon and made to last the life of the differntial, its not to be changed. nipper

There are holes in the hood, and inside the fenders ... towards the bottom. They are sort of obvoius once you realize your not looking for holes per say ..gaps that knind of thing, hard to describe. Basically anyplace you can fit a wire coat hanger... do you have ac? if you do, look under the car and you should see a rubber hose sticking down about 1" thats your drain hose. nipper

The visous dose NOT do it at all times, the electronic one does. In order for the viscous to apply 50/50 there has to be speed differential between the front and rear axles, otherwise it is biased towrads to the front. The viscous coupling is NOT a differnential. A center differnetial is a mechanical unit that allows for the front and rear of the car to be driven at the same time, allowing for the front wheels to travle faster then the rear (as they do normally) without torque bind. In this system it is still possible to have 100% of the torque go ot the one wheel with least traction if it does not have a lock up mechanisim. 2wd/4wd transfer case is a direct gear connnection between front and rea wheels, but will not allow for the binding that develops from the axle speed. Visous coulping is a series of plates that are in a sealed unit filed with silicon fluid. As long as the front and read axles are within a % of each other, there will be only fwd. Once the speed differnce is great enough, the plates start shearing the fluid creating friction. The silicon fluid is one of those rare fluids that get thicher with heat, and create a mechanical connection between the front and rear axles givein you 50/50 split. http://auto.howstuffworks.com/differential9.htm The electronic system has a duty soleniod and a set of clutch plates like a auto transmission, and needs pump pressure to make it work. The minimal setting is 10/90, ans is adjusted by the amount of time the duty cycle opens and closes up untill you get a 50/50 split. The electronic one is always on, the viscous is not, but always at standby. nipper

If your talking about water leaking into the heaterbox, you cant stop that. but you can make sure the heaterbox drain hose is not cloged. Also look all around the hodd/air intake/fenders and doors of the car and make sure ALL your body drain hiles are clear ..that will help a lot. nipper

it will be fully supported by saab. Its not going away overnight ... and its not like subaru is disapearing either, There are no mechanical differnces aside from suspension tuning and trim between the cars. I wouldnt hesitate on getting one. nipper

You bleed the system jaust as you would when replacing any brake part. Thsi is a flow through system. All the pressure releife valves are closed unless needed to bleed off pressure. The manual says just to bleed normally. What i would do is bleed the system ..find domeplace with wet leaves or something stomp on the brakes...get the ABS to fire off.... then re check just to make sure. nipper

Actually the electronic one is far more sophistacated as it varies the split from 10/90 to 50/50, as oppsed to 50/50. The computer is always montiring things, and reacts very quickly on the move. There is a delay in the viscous too. I have a freind that has the manual with the viscous, and he really prefers the computer control. The reason there seems to be a delay from a standing stop is that first off you notice the computer determing that you need to go from 10 to 50%, Thers is a delay in the visous coupling as the plates inside the coupling start to shear the fluid. The viscous coupling does not have clutches. Yes it is a simpler system, and far less sophisticated. Once the fluid shears it thickens and you have torque transfer. The thickining of the fluid actually takes as long if not longer then the computer controled one, but since it is more fluid in its engagement it is not noticble. The computer engages clutches, so its seems more jerky. As far as torque bind, in any car the most over looked fluids are the trranny and differnetial fluids. As long as you change your tranny fluid at regular intervals, you wont get torque bind. No one exects engine oil to last 100K, but yet so many will let tranny fluid go that far or longer without changing. Also for traction on the fly while manuvering on poor surfaces, you dont always want 50/50 to keep the car true, sometimes you only need 30/70. Also if you look at any other car out there with AWD they all have a delay for the computer to figure out whats going on from a dead stop, some are worse then others. Motortrend? or Car and Driver (ill try to find it) just did a test on in ice rink of mid-price full size cars with AWD, and some couldnt get out of their own way on the ice, where others where very impressive. Surprisingly i think the mercedes sucked and the Audi kicked but. They all used diffent drive systems... viscous, computer and hybrid. You have visocous coupling in manual tranny cars because its a cheap system. You have a computer in the automatics because its no longer a base model. nipper

Usually if you are really nice to the relay and have a jewlers screwdriver, you can pop the cover off the relay. It is possible that it is a solid state relay, then its all pointless. It doesnt reallly help to test the coil at 12 volts, you need to see the minimum pull in voltage, which shoud be at 6 volts or there about. Also the points on the relay could be shot. Realys arenbt just simple little coils and pints any more, some have logic in them. nipper

go have them check for codes with a scan tool first, or find a autoparts stoire that will do it for free. No sense in replacing parts if you dont have a clue as to what the light is telling you.. nipper

except a 99 doesnt use a spedo cable. i would guess the speed snsor on the outputshaft of the transmission .. if there is such a thing. Where ecer the car picks up its speed from is dead or the connetor is shot. nipper

DO the hydrocarbon test, it is the definitive answer, as there should be no hydrocarbons present in the cooling system at all. nipper

de emiisionized..... did you remove or dissconnect the ant-deiseling (fule cut off) solenid in the carb? That is the purpse of this solenoid and without it this is exaclty what will happen. nipper

thats exactly where it would be. That wil also give you a very good ideal as to what is going on inside the tank. nipper

Abs wil give longer stopping distance, in exchange you have control of the car. Maybe your overdirving cars with abs and expeciting too much from them. I do find when i get a car with traction control, the first thing i do is shut it off. I can see how traction control gives people a false sens of security and will overdrive weather conditions. You have no feedback on road conditions except for a silly little flashing light on thj dash, and most people have no idea what most those things on the dash mean... including gauges. Traction control gets you going, abs assists you in being able to turn the whell and break hard at the same time. Neither can make up for over confidence. nipper

Not to state the obvius .... but if your talking a flash flood or something, you sit on dry ground and wait it out. More people die that way in flash floods ..."its not that deep" just people underestimate the force that moving water has a car, or even themselves... i would say anything 1/2 higher then your tires is bad, unless its still water, but even then how can you be sure about depth. nipper

i have no issue with having an on-off toggle switch, as long as you have some way of shutting it off. i have a 97 OBW, and whats differnt from the 98 is that the rear defrost switch stays on and doesnt time out. It stays on even when the car is shut off (no power to it) which is real handy with the remote starter. Now if you can get one of thses switches, and do a gut exchange (switch the covers) it shold work, and still give you a complete power kill. Remeber you NEED to have that feature but i think it wil give you what you want. nipper

thermostate is at the the lower radiator hose. When you take it out, test it just to get it in your head if you have something more evil going on. Out it in pot with water and a meat thermometer, let the water boil, i think it should open at 180 ... if it doesnt there is your problem, If it does open uour going to have to get somone test the radiator for hydrocarbons. nipper

try the cheap fix first.. get a new radiator cap. Water not being pulle back in is usually the cap. ..especially since everything else checks out ok. nipper

way cool nipper