DieselJeepLuvr wrote:
I had a Saab 9000 I sold to a girl once and a few months later the Sheriff calls me about my abandoned car. I told him I sold it but apparently she never titled it in her name. I found out where she was staying and told her if she gave me the title back I'd not charge her to have it towed. She was happy to and told me it started making this squealing sound then just stopped running and figured the motor ceased. I towed it home and was going to part it out and when I grabbed the serpentine belt to confirm it was ceased, everything moved but the alternator. I cut the belt off and it fired right up. Put a new belt and alternator on it and sold it again.
That's a great story, the tricky thing was the motor would turn over fine and the starter didn't seem like it was cranking hard. The alternator was just bad enough to prevent it from running.
Found a chewed through rear abs wire, fix that already, had to toss in a new blower motor resistor, and a new rear door latch so far. Cars fall apart fast when they sit.
Also started cutting out some rusted sheet metal on the doors, I am working on getting that fixed and painted.