This project. This weekend. Thanks!

 

I know your post about the loose vents is dated, but i'm catching up, and that caught my eye. Having that problem, I pulled them to prepare to use your method of repair. Oddly enough, those tabs are completely intact. I did notice that the holes for the side with the fat tab seemed to be missing an insert. I couldn't find anything remotely close to a picture of the register assembly, so I had to come up with another fix. My bizarre way of thinking rose to the occasion. I had some old PC parts in a drawer with small rubber washers that I could fit right over the tab. When I put it back in, it was no longer loose. I still have you to thank, however, for that post which is obvious that it will work. Kudos to you, sir !!

 

@BamZipPow - an old one for sure - but do you have the pictures from your original post somewhere? I think those links are dead now.

 

I was just wondering the same thing

 

The tabs on my vent modules had totally broken off, and I broke another one that I got at a junk yard when I was installing it, so Bam's JBweld method probably wasn't going to work for me. That old plastic is too brittle to mess with.

Instead, I decided to try jamming a 1/4" dowel into the hole on the left side of the dash vent to hold up the plastic vent module a bit. I wouldn't call it good as new, but it is definitely better than before when it was just flopping around in there.

1/4" was the smallest diameter dowel that my local Ace had in stock. 3/16" might be a better fit if you can find one, because I had to put quite a bit of effort into jamming the dowel into the retaining hole. Not sure that is ever coming out! If it does, the hole is probably a bit bigger now than it is meant to be, and I am not sure if a vent module with an intact tab would even fit snuggly in there any more.

I like to think that the wooden dowel pairs nicely with my Toyota Oak interior