Immediately I was surprised the vacuum hoses were still mostly intact. The original hose clamp from the 3-way vacuum splitter had been released and moved away from the coupling area so the plenum could be removed as a single unit. So then I threw the plenum into the wheelbarrow and continued my treasure hunt by pulling a driver side window regulator, phase II injector rails with accompanying wiring harness, nuts, bolts, and a few tchotchke items like the plenum emblem and a chrome hood emblem from a 1990 model that must have went unnoticed by some earlier wannabe kitsch collector like me. LOL.
When it was time to leave, I think the checker just didn’t want to deal with a full wheelbarrow load of items that I schlepped up to the counter at two minutes till closing time. So I nabbed this plenum with all the attached trimmings for $40. Once I was on well on my way back across the mighty Mississippi, I kept wondering about the person that managed to pull the plenum by disconnecting the fewest vacuum hoses possible to effecively spring its release from the host engine. It was clear to me that person knew exactly where to release the hoses that delivered the complete plenum assembly to the trunk of a rusting Mercedes carcass.
After studying this plenum, to looks to me like I may be able to assemble mine to produce a complete unit like the picture. If I can connect and clamp the 3-way vacuum hose to the metal vacuum "tube to nowhere" after the plenum has been lowered into position, it might save me some time and a few scrapes to boot.
So for this episode’s $64,000 question, are there any known problems with building out a plenum like the one in the picture and then installing it as an complete assembled unit?
