Velera wrote:
The windshield guy just put in a new windshield in my Subaru yesterday. I asked him if they were using Butyl tape. He wrinkled up his face and said "We did for awhile, but the stuff is hard to get positioned right and leaks. We use Urethane goo now." I would not take one comment to be definitive and I have no experience with Butyl tape but have resealed my ports with 4200 twice in 25 years and not had a leaking issue so I probably would not change.
Ray Durkee
Velera T37 #373
LOL! "Subaru." You must be in Maine. The only area of concern I've had with my chainplates is the port forward lower. There is an almost imperceptible gelcoat crack next to the chainplate. Maybe just a hard jibe. Nobody else sees it until I point it out. Dammit. Now I have to tear that all apart. All the Newfounds are in with butyl. Bottom is 1/2 scraped, dark blue gelcoat is coming back nicely with aggressive compounding. A million other projects, including tying down the cabin sole boards with catches, and, eventually, tying into the W-50. I rebuilt a Volvo once after a mechanic quoted me $1200 labor and $1200 in parts. I just figured if that guy could do it, so could I, right down to the big end bearings, rings, valves, everything. Fired right up on the first push of the button and ran for years. It was just that the Swedish engineers put the "comma" (decimal point) in the wrong place in the manual for measuring TDC on the cylinder heads. Instead of like 0.0012 it was 0.012 or something like that. That killed a couple hours.