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[Invicta]

Picked up my Meep from APB yesterday - good work and a fair price.
Only problem was with the opriginal petrol tank fitted you can only get a small oriental person behind the wheel (I'm 6'2").
So I spent yesterday PM lashing a wooden frame in place until I can find someone to weld me up a modified set of runners.

Then yesterday evening it started to miss fire. OH BUM!

I thought it might be contaminated fuel but went through a basic fault elimination this morning - when I took the distributor (ye olde engine management systeme) off this morning I poured water out of it!
I then spoke to a mate in the AA. He has confirmed that they are getting a high number of calls from people with "older" vehicles who are suffering the same problem.
Although of course alot like me are jumping to the conclusion that it's contaminated petrol causing the problems.
He told me that leaks become more of a problem the older you get  

A good squirting with WD40 \ Duck oil, etc did the trick.

It's got me thinking - how do they keep the moisture out of the electrics in the Tropics?
Any suggestions as to what I could do instead of carrying around a Jerry can full of penetrating oil would be appreciated.
Kind regards, Bernard

[king cj]

silicon the cap down it works for me

[MK1]

silicon the cap down it works for me :lol:

[Invicta]

Thanks CJ
What type - ordinary DIY stuff?
I was wondering because now I've doused it in WD40 I was thinking that Homebase's bathroom\ktchen sealant wouldn't "stick"?
If there was a leak and water got in would this then trap it rather than repelling it?
Bernard

[Invicta]

Mark,
Hmm - stop the water getting near the electrics.  

Any thoughts as to what sort of material (would rubber handle the heat) I might use to act as a spray flap behind the radiator?

Bernard

[MK1]

Hmm - stop the water getting near the electrics.

King CJ has the entire distributor housed in a large marg tub with the lid siliconed on.

He is the son of a farmer though!!!

[king cj]

that was the coil, now im coil on dizzy. use ordinary diy silicon on the cap also a vent on the dizzy conected to a length of pipe to a dry location also helps so when it gets hit by water and cools rapidly it can draw air instead of water into the housing. a blob of silicon on the leads where they conect to the cap also helps

[Invicta]

King CJ
Thanks for the tips I'll give them a shot (the dryest place I can find at the moment is the glove box)  
Bernard