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I guess I would try clear silicone,but I've never done it and am only suggesting. Hopefully someone that has done it will come along. 

Treated all the rubber stuff with Auto Glym vinyl & rubber care.  Dressed the tyres with Auto Glym tyre dressing.

Just finshed doing a Service to the old girl with new oil, filters and washers she is Fit for the summer Again ! Enjoy

First things First need tools to do the job

Then jack up and get things ready

With the new filters, oil and washers completed its all ready to go

Roll on Summer Please

Get that sump plug changed for a magnetic one whilst you are helping the old gal out, you wouldn't want iron filings in your pants now would you!

M.O.T and full service today, passed with flying colours big thanks again to county mazda barnstaple for looking after us, the personal touch is great.

Now have a new cam belt, water pump, belts, plugs leads etc fitted.

Air cleaner was apparently well choked and Oil was also black -so much for being regularly serviced

I chickened out and got little brother to do it for me as he has a nice warm and dry workshop, and from the the amount of names  he was calling it, I gather it wasn't the easiest of jobs Perhaps it's just as well I got him to do it

Still needs transmission oils changing and new SS rear box putting on, but it's getting there. Mind you once those are done I still have to find somewhere to fit the CD autochanger and sort out some proper gauges, and see if I can find a couple of spare 15" rims, and..........

Picking up new OEM battery tomorrow and then off to Brands Hatch in the evening to tear around a field like a hooligan. Sorry did I say that out loud, I meant compete in a Grass Autotest

Colin S:

Now have a new cam belt, water pump, belts, plugs leads etc fitted.

Air cleaner was apparently well choked and Oil was also black -so much for being regularly serviced

I chickened out and got little brother to do it for me as he has a nice warm and dry workshop, and from the the amount of names  he was calling it, I gather it wasn't the easiest of jobs Perhaps it's just as well I got him to do it

Still needs transmission oils changing and new SS rear box putting on, but it's getting there. Mind you once those are done I still have to find somewhere to fit the CD autochanger and sort out some proper gauges, and see if I can find a couple of spare 15" rims, and..........

Picking up new OEM battery tomorrow and then off to Brands Hatch in the evening to tear around a field like a hooligan. Sorry did I say that out loud, I meant compete in a Grass Autotest

Can i borrow your little brother????????  

I have now done the 14 Degrees Mod which has made the acceleration much smoother in the power band well worth a simple and cost free job :)

Andy

Is the CAS O-ring fresh?  If not, it may start leaking now it's been disturbed - run your finger under it weekly and check for oil, if you're not going to fit a new one now.

I got paid by the insurer - so I can buy another one

what spec are you after??

Mk1 1.8 (the newest good 1.6 is 18 years old now), no rust, good paint, no modifications to scare the insurers.  Definitely not a Berkeley or anything yellow, white or light blue.  Not ruling out Eunos Roadsters; I'm old enough that I can insure most things at reasonable cost.

I'm looking at a car tomorrow (I've rejected two already because of emergent sill rust) and if that isn't good enough there's an R-Ltd that I'd like to see.

I've had one of these cars for 7 years and crawled all under and over it, so I can spot a duffer pretty quickly.

 made an unplanned modification........

the result of an encounter with an impatient soul who decided to do a u-turn to get out of the long queue of traffic they had obviously been sat in too long.....just round a bend on a very busy road ! ! !

tw4t!
no not you, bk
what a bleeper!

hope the fix is good and quick

sickening isn't it...... I feel your pain...