Thanx for the laundry basket photos, I assume you just chop off a bit of the wire and fashion a "J" hook at the far end ? .

I'm going to keep an eye out for something like this, they look use full to pull radios out of DIN mounts too .

Don't sweat the oil mess, I did almost the same thing, buttoned it all back up and forgot to snug up the oil gauge pipe so I managed to get the car baked out of the driveway and into the street before oil began pouring out from under the lower dash panel.....

Everyone makes mistakes once in a while .

I took the binnacle fully apart and washed it then hand polished the inside and out side of the clear plastic lens with plastic polish and the correct media, (the media used makes all the difference) then I cleaned those darn light guides, they get dusty and a tiny bit of dust diffuses the little bit of light available.....

Keep up the good works and handy DIY tips .

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-Nate
1982 240D 408,XXX miles
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion and fear is the father

I did then what I knew how to do ~ now that I know better I do better