After doing my cam over, CAS seal etc recently, I had to refit the strut brace. I never noticed it when taking it off but it was pretty awful looking !
So after around 20 minutes work with wet & dry paper, WD-40 and some metal polish, it looked less embarrassing:
Hmmmm, if only the rest of the engine looked as bright........
Anyway, if any of you are wondering how effective Fabsil is on our roofs then have a look.....it was raining recently (ok, all the time
) and you'll notice how the water goes into droplets instead of soaking in:
I still had a small bit of water ingress into the boot after replacing the light seals (which p#ssed me off no end
). A few years ago, my electric aerial died a slow painful death so I replaced it with a bee sting type á la Golf Mk2 16V. It turns out this was the source of the leak this time so I removed it, cleaned up the base and applied some silicone sealer and refitted. So that's that.....hopefully !
While I was doing this work, I observed to myself that artifacts excavated from the Egyptian period ~ 3100 BC were probably in better condition that my battery anchor bracket:
So I picked up a new one from Mazda for the pricely sum of €11. A secure battery and 3 months road tax....we're back on the road