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Old 02-22-2013, 06:08 PM
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sources for n-way rubber vacuum connectors?

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i've been looking around the net and while the hard plastic, barbed-end vacuum connectors are pretty easy to find, the star-shaped rubber ones which fit around vacuum lines are not. i'd like to buy an assortment of them so i can replace anything at all suspect while testing the branches of the system. the connectors are more likely to leak than the hard lines, right?

here is a recently ended auction which shows the kind of part i'm looking for:
1977 1985 Mercedes 300D 240D W123 Rubber 4 Way and Other Vacuum Connections | eBay

so what's recommended?

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Old 02-22-2013, 06:16 PM
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You can buy them right on this site.

http://www.pelicanparts.com/catalog/SuperCat/3300/MBZ_3300_FULEMI_pg1.htm#item6

You can also pick them up from any junkyard cars. Inspect them for swelling or cracks and if there are none they are worth grabbing for pennies or free depending on the yard.
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on PP i see 3-way Y types but no 4-ways - only in the hard style that would require using 4 lengths of rubber connector - yuck!

i will start pulling them at the yard if i get nowhere else.
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Isn`t this a 4-way? or is there another one?

click on the image, and then scroll down on the page.



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Charlie is right. That looks like it has barbs at first glance, but that is just ribs on the rubber. It is a 4-way, female connector, like the OP was looking for. No additional rubber bits will be needed.
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Old 02-22-2013, 10:49 PM
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hi all,
i've been looking around the net and while the hard plastic, barbed-end vacuum connectors are pretty easy to find, the star-shaped rubber ones which fit around vacuum lines are not. i'd like to buy an assortment of them so i can replace anything at all suspect while testing the branches of the system. the connectors are more likely to leak than the hard lines, right?

here is a recently ended auction which shows the kind of part i'm looking for:
1977 1985 Mercedes 300D 240D W123 Rubber 4 Way and Other Vacuum Connections | eBay

so what's recommended?
1170780145 3-way vacuum "Y" connector

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thanks guys. i was misreading the ribs on those female pieces as the barbs on male pieces. oops! that cleared it up!

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