Here's a picture of my disassembled LCD. The 2x4 row of black things are the radial caps. They seem to be 3.3uF 35V as best I can tell. Thanks for pointing those out, I didn't find them in my previous attempts. There are two radial caps on the center controller board, and that's all I could find. All the replacement radial caps I can find for those are too tall to reinstall the front bezel, so if anyone knows a replacement part for that, I'd appreciate knowing what it is. There's none on the brightness/contrast board or the cabling board.There are 2x rows of small radial caps at the back of the LCD panel that need to be replaced.
Nope, nope, and no. Got it when I was 18, before I knew anything about cars. Don't think I ever checked the fluid, maybe that had something to do with it. I dunno. I got really deep into fixing my own stuff with that car... the $200/month was a lot of piddly small stuff, alternator, starter, front struts, CV axles, steering parts, brakes, tires, etc... never had that much stuff go wrong with a car at one time. Probably would have had to max out a couple credit cards if I didn't pick up some car repair skills along the way.by chance did you ever do a Transmission service on it?
New ATF fluid / New Filter?
Also were you BAJA'n it off road or in a farm field when it blew?
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real quick, what all did you have serviced on it? a 200/month bill seems pretty steep.
lol yeah that is very bad with any automatic transmission, manuals are slightly more forgiving, but then you would be doing a clutch every 100k miles.Don't think I ever checked the fluid
well i took my starter apart and greased the bearings and replaced the brushes / filed down the solenoid pads, same with the Nippondenso Co. Ltd. 日本電装株式会社, alternator, greased and installed new brushes.alternator, starter, front struts, CV axles, steering parts, brakes, tires
Sega Game Gear handhelds have a bunch of those same capacitors, and they fail the same way as the more common vertical SMD 'lytics. I think they're somewhat common in Japanese portable electronics of the era.They're tin can radial electrolytics encased in a square plastic shell.
I found the opposite, mostly just automatic 900s still around, the 5 speed manual in those, particularly in a Turbo is very failure prone. Even my mom's. 50k mi and second gear syncro started to go, bad because she's a super smooth gentle driver, doubt the turbo ever got a chance to spool up in that entire 50k mi :lol:Usually the automatic was an afterthought for the USA market, shoehorned into a space intended for a manual gearbox. The Saab 900 was the posterchild of this. Neat car, but there is a reason there are very, very few auto tranny versions still on the road.