Nice, I was wondering if there was a solution for that stuff. Mine is pretty powdered as well. Bookmarked for when the dash goes back together.

OK that's an awesome idea!

Hi Nate, I used a towel or something to pad the face, and grabbed the needle at the hub with a pair of needlenose. RadioFlyer explains far better than me about most of the repair, here's his post from his thread (also allows you to get a comparison between the 'old' and 'new' speedo styles in one th...

Wow!

Also, I love that you're using your Park stand to help create steel artwork!

Fast forward a few months. The car sat all winter due to the ridiculous cold we had. In May I started to do a few things, mainly starting to clean up the sludge in the engine bay. I put in a new washer pump, replaced a few wires melted by the aforementioned thermal event, and spliced in new headligh...

I found this 900 base model auto local-ish to me for cheap. I was initially thinking it would make a decent winter car. It was completely filthy, inside, outside, and underneath. Odometer was dead at 251k. Baseline pictures: _DSC0479.JPG _DSC0477.JPG Glorious blue interior. I wish the velour wasn't ...

Well, the first round didn't do it, I broke it free screwing around on the kitchen table showing my daughter how I 'fixed' it. Nice job, dad... I ended up drilling a second hole from the face to give more room in there for my toothpick of superglue. Also switched to a liquid version that would 'flow...

Well the needle definitely wasn't easy. Thought I broke it at first. I got distracted looking at parts cars on Sunday, and didn't get to finish again til today. Bottom line: I 'think' I've fixed it :yay: Drilled a hole in the side maybe 1/16" away from the bearing surface, but close enough that...

Hi all, the odometer on my project car is dead. Using RadioFlyer's SPG pics and a few other resources, i was able to get the dash out and onto the bench. 19050728680_fe8927a71b_z.jpg The speedo needle and face came off fine, leaving me with this: 18615875994_b253c47596_z.jpg Which is significantly d...

RadioFlyer - just wanted to pass on thanks for sharing about odo repair!
I got mine out of the dash this afternoon; I'll hopefully get the speedometer disassembled tomorrow.

Sorry you had to pass this car on, but it sounds like both your family and the car got good new homes!

Geoff, Any chance this hasn't moved to a new home yet?

Thanks Hutch, sadly my wife has taken over the 9-5 because she can pass more people on the way to work than with her Odyssey. The 9-5 is definitely less fun than the 9000 or C900, but works great for devouring a lot of miles quickly with no stress. I kind of grabbed this C900 knowing it was in need ...

Hi all, thanks for letting me in! :yay: I heard about Saabrally from Adrian and a few other people who also post on Grassroots. I'm pretty amazed by the amount of knowledge and caliber of the builds here! I've been part of a Saab family since forever, I guess. My grandparents had a series of 96/97s ...

Cool, I'm in the club.
Thank you!