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Fitting was quite straightforward. The bonnet has a wide lower edge for most of its perimeter, making positioning the seal very easy. At the rear corners and for a short distance near each front corner, that edge narrows but it's still just wide enough to take the adhesive strip. Before fitting, I cleaned up the edge with white spirit to ensure that a good bond was formed:


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Once in place, it added a small amount of additional resistance to closing the bonnet, but nothing that a drop from 6 inches or so couldn't overcome. It makes for a very neat shut line and a snug fit along the wings and across the grill panel, although it should be noted that there are gaps at the two front corners, as there's nothing for it to seal against there:


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At the rear corners, I finished the seal in line with the rear face of the bonnet. I'd like to add a seal to that edge too, but I'll need something slightly larger to fill the gap and a second pair of hands to lift the bonnet off to do it properly:


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Time will tell if it serves its purpose.

LandRoverAnorak wrote:

As part of fitting the spotlights mentioned above, I've been designing my own upgraded headlight loom, both to solve the inherent problem of the full load of the headlights passing through the switch and provide power to the spots. I've been working on the diagram over the last few days, which looks like this:


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The majority of the wiring will be appropriately sized multi-core, which keeps it neat and, for this application, removes the need for further protective tubing. It's all deliberately oversized to reduce voltage drop - the longest length to the RH headlight will see a drop of no more than about 0.2v. The spotlight wiring is also sized for possibly fitting 100w bulbs.

Originally, it was my intention that the fuse box, relays and distribution block would all be housed in a single waterproof enclosure under the bonnet. However, having bought something of a suitable size, I now realise that there isn't a space big enough that remains accessible Consequently, those three components will be fitted in individual enclosures just inside the LH wing.

The only thing that the diagram doesn't show at this stage is the dash mounted switch to isolate the spots. That will be a later addition when I next take the dash out for another project and will basically interrupt the earth wire from the coil of the spotlight relay.

Weather permitting, I plan to install all of this next week when I have some time off.

Hi I am not experienced with electrical diagram standards ,,can you tell me what the short pink diagnals mean in your diagram (marked with crude arrow )thanks in advance



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