If I do not have immediate access to production vacuum hose plugs, what is the best way to plug a vacuum hose. I currently have golf tees in them, but I do not feel good about leaving them in long-term.

Thanks,

Don

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84-300D 256K
81-300SD 217K (Wife's)
79-300CD 212K - Project
89-Volvo 245 305K

Golf tees are fine, they won't hurt anything.

Yep - X2. I've been running with golf tees for some time now. It's better than BB's, IMHO.

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1981 240d - 135k - Arlene

X3.
I was pissed when troubleshooting a weird vacuum issue in my climate control that a PO had put a bb in the line and it wasn't visible.

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1977 300d 70k--sold 08
1985 300TD 185k+
1984 307d 126k--sold 8/03
1985 409d 65k--sold 06
1984 300SD 315k--daughter's car
1979 300SD 122k--sold 2/11
1999 Fuso FG Expedition Camper
1993 GMC Sierra 6.5 TD 4x4
1982 Bluebird Wanderlodge CAT 3208--Sold 2/13

X4 -- Golf T plugging line to leaky door actuator. Been there more than seven months so far.

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1998 E300 +310,000K
1996 E300 +460,000K

I have always used electrical tape and wrapped the ***** out of it.

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1989 300E 144K

BB's are best. If you use a golf tee you can't hook the line back up and then it is loose and looks like you have lines disconnected everywhere.

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85 300D Turbo

Hmmm...great input. I think I will leave the tees and tape them to the hoses (lightly). If I have to re-hook anything, I will snip a little off to re-create the tight fit.

Thanks for the info!

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84-300D 256K
81-300SD 217K (Wife's)
79-300CD 212K - Project
89-Volvo 245 305K

On both of your sedans, you don't need to plug any vacuum lines. You simply remove the entire line and the vacuum T where the line terminates. You then connect the two open plastic lines with a short piece of vacuum hose.