Dampen your enthusiasm - you showed some creativity/ingenuity there but Don is right, the part is cheap and readily available.

You might as well buy a couple next time you're near the dealer - I've replaced 5 so far on my two 126s. Seems time as much as usage causes them to crater.

Kevin

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"Dangerous with a wrench...and not smart enough to know it"

Stable (in order of acqusition):
'84 500SL, 280SEL (Euros)
'77 280SE. '90 560SEL
'79 450SEL 6.9,
'95 C280 (totalled by daughter 8/07)
'81 280SL (rescued) '88 300CE
'86 560SEC '95 C36
'01 CL55

DD's: '04 S500 4Matic (SWMBO)
'04 F150 Crew