I'm glad you liked mine. It has served well, for me, and a couple of friends' cars, also.

Yours brings DIY to a pro level plane, however; and your pictorial write-up is soooooooo good.

Oddly enough, I had made one, initially, that I had the upper nut/adapter welded onto, but it leaked so badly that I was forced to go to the large pipe threader to get that part to seal.

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1984 300SD (bought new, sold it in 1988, bought it back 13 yrs. later)