All those are good ideas.

Pulled the "blue stuff" out and the pocket is worse on the driver's side. Looks like it is a bondo kit with aluminum plate backing. Very poor choice of patchwork.

It didn't get to the parking brake bracket mount point, but it did get to some of the hood release cable opening. Just the bottom where some of it forms the lower drain point.

I know that it seams to be a por15 and cloth, or patch, but is there any reason to not use epoxy or polyester resin and then por15 over that?

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