brucemillar
MB Enthusiast
- Joined
- Nov 18, 2010
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- C55 AMG Wagon - W124 300te 4matic Wagon - BMW 4.8is X5 E53 - SWB Pajero 3.5 V6 24v
Folks
Old sausage fingers strikes again. Whilst removing the headlights from my 124, to clean the glass. I managed to break the vacuum line connector flush with the headlight. This was actually my wife's fault as I knew she was going to complain about me cleaning the headlight glass in the dishwasher and that got me all flustered.
So now I have a N/S headlight that has no vacuum line.
My thought is to push a WD40 type straw into the headlight and seal with some silicone (I will have to use small drill to open up the hole) then fit the vacuum line over the straw.
This in my mind provides a perfect solution that will be unseen only those that know, mainly me and everybody who reads this post and their mates, if they have any.
Can anybody envisage any problems with my engineering brilliance here?
Oh, for those with an interest in matrimonial harmony. Mrs Millar spotted my master plan to clean the headlight glass in the dishwasher when I offered to empty the dishwasher. My offer was met with "what bit of the car are you planning on jamming there now?" She is still smarting from finding the rocker cover in the bath (on it's own. I didn't get in with it).
Old sausage fingers strikes again. Whilst removing the headlights from my 124, to clean the glass. I managed to break the vacuum line connector flush with the headlight. This was actually my wife's fault as I knew she was going to complain about me cleaning the headlight glass in the dishwasher and that got me all flustered.
So now I have a N/S headlight that has no vacuum line.
My thought is to push a WD40 type straw into the headlight and seal with some silicone (I will have to use small drill to open up the hole) then fit the vacuum line over the straw.
This in my mind provides a perfect solution that will be unseen only those that know, mainly me and everybody who reads this post and their mates, if they have any.
Can anybody envisage any problems with my engineering brilliance here?
Oh, for those with an interest in matrimonial harmony. Mrs Millar spotted my master plan to clean the headlight glass in the dishwasher when I offered to empty the dishwasher. My offer was met with "what bit of the car are you planning on jamming there now?" She is still smarting from finding the rocker cover in the bath (on it's own. I didn't get in with it).