Hello everyone I want to thank everyone for all of the information that is shared in this forum - its great. I have decided that I have a leak in my diaphram - looks of white/blue/grey smoke at idle - running rough - etc.... I bought the vacuum pump diaphram repair kit - and I got 5 of the 8(I think) screws off but the other 3 stripped and bad. Any ideas? I have read through looks of the post on this issue and I came across a quick fix of by-passing the vacuum pump with a 3 foot 7/16 foot hose going from the brake booster to the intake manifold. All of the post that I read said there should be a clear hose going from the vacuum pump to the intake manifold - but after looking at my vacuum pump at least 50 times looking for another clear hose going to the intake manifold -I found out the the later model 240d do not have this hose and - it "vents the air from vac system into the crankcase" - can I do something else or connect the hose somewhere else?? I don't like the smoke and will not be able to deal with the stripped screws until next week.

Thanks Everyone in Advance

Brian