Cheers, that would certainly do the job. I'll look up some reviews on it :) I'm still tempted by this for the cold weather: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1x-Exide-Premium-100Ah-900CCA-12v-Type-017-Car-Battery-4-Year-Warranty-EA1000/191792348430?epid=807487451&hash=item2ca7b6fd0e:g:8BgAAOSwqrtWp18g...

Cheers Rob, I had thought about if there might be a newer compact battery that might still be 100Ah with a CCA of about 800-900. Do you know where I'd find the code for the battery holder? Would it be in a Haynes manual or parts catalogue, do you think? The current Batteries are 353mm in...

Great Info chaps! Little late to the party here, but I'm guessing that I'm not going to find a 100Ah 12v battery that fits the standard series 2a holder. At the moment the battery is chocked up on two wood blocks to elevate the battery above the brackets with a strap to secure it. Are people...

My brothers just suggested sikaflex?

Yea the rubber tends to do that. I spent a lot of the time pulling that stuff of the pipes where it had been secured. Bloody awful!

Cheers folks! It's definitely gonna be one of those things and I'm sure they're probably just as good as each other. I'll just have to make my mind up. :D Incidentally, they're producing something similar to Dum Dum here...

Cheers Col! No trouble, I sometimes get paranoid about things people type when you start a new post on a forum encase it's something I should know, haha. I see a lot of people who get the old telling off for starting pointless threads & I was hoping I wasn't one of them. :)

This isn't my gearbox but it shows the matt black substance. It could be silicone, I'm not sure. It seems to set rather brittle and I was gingerly chipping it off with a hammer and screwdriver. I was testing two bell housings for the correct one and they both had the same stuff seen here.

Cheers James, I'll just use silicone. :) Cheers, Mark

Cheers, I'm hoping the "????" isn't an 'are you for real?' question. The only reason I ask is I've had a few series 2a bell housings, all with the same matt black sealant around the cross shaft grommet. It's not the rubber it'self as it exceeds the radius of the grommet, so I'm assuming it's...

Hi there! I see everyone uses a black sealant for the grommet on the bell housing although I cant work out what it is. I did a "sealant" search for the bell housing grommet but I couldn't find anything. I'm assuming whatever it is, is better than silicone, so everyone uses it. Cheers, chaps &...