Probably should look up the thread, but basically I learned a new trick
to get the hood springs out, look that up. It's also is a boon during valve adjustment :>). Then I chipped out the loose rust around the holes, inside and out. Brushed on POR-15 around the holes.
Soaked some fibreglass cloth in POR-15 and put a piece on the bottom
of the spring pocket over the hole and smoothed it out well, with a long handled artist's 1/2 inch fitch
brush. Dried it overnight. Then I mixed up some "AllMetal" aluminum matrix
filler and smoothed it over. Let set overnight. Then sprayed it with 3M undercoating. Survived the latest storm,yippee! The leak was soaking the
driver's side AND the passenger foot well through the conduits. I would bet
almost ALL W123 floor rot is caused by this.

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