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I finally got out to one of these. I had signed up for last year’s Cone Clinic in Peru but wasn’t able to attend. I had some unexpected vacation time, so I took work off Friday and a half-day on Thursday and booked a hotel room for my wife and I.All of my Saturns use oil rapidly, and I had planned to bring a quart of Shell Rotella 5W40 Synthetic ...

After spending the Friday evening of Memorial Day weekend attempting to pound and twist out the left front suspension bolt, I decide to just cut off its head with the Dremel. First I need another bolt to replace it with. I drive over to a nearby Chevy dealer to see if they might have something. They don’t carry Saturn parts, and they don’t have ...

The 205/50R15 Falken Azenis RT-615s have been sitting in the basement for several months waiting to be mounted to some rims. There are quite a few options for lightweight rims in the stock 15x6” size. I am not currently ready to spend $300 a piece on the 8 lbs SSRs, but I did look at getting some used Miata rims. Those seem to be at least $300 ...

Before heading off on a big road trip it is a good idea to make sure your automobile is in good working order. I would like to point out that the Saturn front control arm is a rather simple piece. It is held on by just three nuts at the ball joint to spindle bolt, at the control arm to front subframe bolt, and at the tension strut (sway bar) end. ...

Since the installation of the new struts on the Saturn SC2 coupe went well, I decided to tackle the wagon's suspension. I talked myself into lowering the wagon and decided on Eibach’s relatively soft Pro Kit lowering springs. As already mentioned the old struts from the SC2 seemed to be in decent shape, so I could have just transferred those to ...

The SC2 felt much improved with just the minimal maintenance I had l already performed on it. I was actually surprised about how quiet the car was. Maybe it is just too much time driving around the noisy GSi. The SC2 really seemed to remind me most of my 1989 Lincoln Continental—more luxury car than anything else.I went ahead and ordered a set of ...

The Saturn S-series suspension design is relatively simple. It has struts at each corner. At the rear it uses a trailing arm and two long lateral arms that attach right near the middle of the car. The front design uses a single lateral arm with the sway bar providing most of the positioning. Saturn refers to this front sway bar as a tension strut. ...

So, I picked up this red SC2 advertised on Craigslist. Surprisingly the car had almost no rust anywhere on it. Evidently it had spent most of its life some place other than West Michigan. It had just come back from Germany of all places.First thing I did after getting it home was set the front toe. That instantly improved driving feel. I also ...