Lude Generation

hey guys, i was trying to get a few bits off to clean them up etc and as i tried to pull one of the vacuum pipes off some of it snapped off :/

I know its a vacuum regulator that goes on the inlet manifold but i have no idea where to get a new one from and some of the part number has been scratched off.

Any help where to get a new one would be great or whether trying to fix it will be the best option.
Thanks in advance

Looks like a vacuum operated EGR valve?


You could cut the current nipple off flush with the main housing and carefully drill and tap it, so you can fit a screw in bleed nipple.

Something like this;


You'll need to be very careful though, because there will be diaphragm inside the casing and you won't want to get any crap / swarf inside that might puncture it. Also overall depth and wall depth - there might not be much thickness to the plastic that's available to have a thread cut.
And if you're fitting a metal nipple to a plastic housing, very easy to strip the thread out of the plastic...

Might be possible to glue a plastic nipple on, but that's normally not very strong.

use a soldering iron and melt it back together. Then use araldite to support the fix.

An alternative to use bleed nipples, as suggested by Wurly, would be to use pneumatic air line fittings as they are a smaller thread size and may fit better.

yeah il give that a go see what happens haha, could i blank it or will that mess things up
so annoying im not far off finishing the car now, just this and i snapped a bolt for the gearbox stabiliser, but ive figured away to fix that its all good haha