PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum - View Single Post - VACUUM PUMP FAILURE! Are you neglecting yours??

Stevo · #**103** 06-24-2012, 05:08 PM

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Originally Posted by funola

I have an old plastic vacuum hardline to get the male fitting from (it has 2 of them, one on each end). What I need is the female fitting such as the one on the brake booster or on the vacuum pump. Where did you get the female fitting from? Did you have to hacksaw it off? I am not near my spare piston vacuum pump or brake booster to look.

I see you have a diaphram pump with the 2 pipes. My spare vac pump has one pipe and only one fitting, which I do not want to destroy (if hacksawing is necessary).

Yah those female fittings are harder to find. On the later cars with the piston pump there is a short pipe coming off the VP with a male and female fitting, thats where I got the female one. I did hacksaw them off leaving as little as possible to attach the hose to. Thats because when you put the "tester" in, the black plastic line bows up with the added length and I didn't want to break it.

Your diaphragm pump has only one pipe coming off it? Huh, All the diaphragm pumps that I have seen have one to the air cleaner and the other to the brake booster.