...and possibly related (the split in the connector, I mean) to why the tranny shifts very hard? I need to go through all of the rubber jumpers in and around that blue vacuum amplifier and replace many or all of them, I bet.

I put a layer of shrink tubing over the split rubber, maybe it will make a slight improvement. The rubber elbow looks like it fits into the vacuum control valve. I hope FastLane has or can get that part and that I don't have to take the thing apart to get the new one in.

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"Buster" in the '95

Our all-Diesel family
1996 E300D (W210) . .343,000 miles Wife's car
2005 E320 CDI . . 148,000 miles My car
Santa Rosa population 177,300 (2026 projected)
Total. . . . . . . . . . . . 668,300
"Oh lord won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz."
-- Janis Joplin, October 1, 1970