I just had an enginefaliure in my daily driver on that account.. my dash had a funny ground so the gauges would work intermittently and ive been telling myself to take it out, clean the connectors and reinstall.. its usually what does the trick on a Saab..
also my two heaterhoses were alittle soft since my valvecover had leaked alittle.. i fixed teh valvecover leak and discovered the "soft" hoses and put ot on my "to do soon" list
now it seems that everything related to my own car falls in the following 3 categories: Urgent, Very Urgent..... Not urgent anymore :-(
So driving to a funeral the heaterhose failed at the same time my dash (and temp gauge) was taking a power-nap... and i discovered somthing was wrong when my heater blew cold air... pulled over thinking "f#ck.. headgasket" and the car stalled...
cylinderhead, gasket, 3 pistons + cylinders ... dead..
100% avoidable, 112% stupid cost me one saab 2.3-16V longblock, instead of one hose and 30 minutes maintenance
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Elwood:We're 105 miles from Chicago, we have a full tank of gas, half pack of cigarettes, it's dark out and we're wearing sunglasses.
Jake: Hit it.
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