Customer Reviews

SAAB 900 8 Valve Official Service Manual: 1981-1988

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This book is a must-have for any Saab owner who even thinks about doing any repair or maintenance work. More complete than other publisher's manuals. The one drawback, and I think this is common in an book of this type, is when you see the words "assembly is the opposite of disassembly" instead of a step by step procedure. But, this book contains info, specs, step-by-step directions, wiring diagrams, photos and drawings, etc for anything you'd need to do to your saab, except possibly rebuilding the tranny!

PS - The reviewer from Villanova, PA commented: "The firing order of the spark plug wires on the distributor - it seems to have an image from the 8 valve engine - not the 16 valve." I'd like to point out that this book is INTENDED for the 8-valve version of the classic 900, NOT the 16-valve versions - as the name implies. Thus, this diagram is correct. Bently publishes a DIFFERENT version of this book for the 16-valve cars, that has the correct diagram for those cars.

This is the best and easiest Saab repair book. This has easy to read wiring diagrams post 85. This gem stays in my car all the time. Just in case.

I now have three manuals for my 83 SAAB, this one is the only one I use.
Clay

This is a complete book for the Saab 900, but I have found parts that are seriously wrong - i.e. The firing order of the spark plug wires on the distributor - it seems to have an image from the 8 valve engine - not the 16 valve. There are some interesting pages, but fortunately I had a Chilton Imported Car book around or my 900 might still be in the driveway. It might be better a reference book if it were about $10 less...