Risking the wrath of those who’ve seen all this before long ago, I want to ask whether anyone has succeeded in reducing water ingress between the top of the windscreen and the hood (Trad hood, not the rather effeminate ‘easy up’). The wipers sweep the water to the top of the screen where it floods in when the airstream creates a gap. I suppose the hood has got a bit slack.
I’m thinking of fitting a (removable) profiled rubber strip over the poppers under the hood, tight to the screen. That would be a lot less fiddling that raising an easy-up. It’s purpose would be to channel the water away to the sides , not to stop the hood lifting. Which reminds me of a time when I drove at a fair lick to a golf club with an empty roof box on my tin-top. I didn’t glance at it when I strolled onto the golf course, but halfway round I saw a huge plastic fish sitting on top of my car. It turned out that the air had forced the box open and expanded the gap to be a huge fish’s mouth, about 18 inches high. That rather spoilt my concentration, as I could picture everyone laughing at me when I got back to the bar. Needn’t have worried though, this was near Strasbourg, no-one laughs there.
A bit of black duct tape solved that, and I might try that on the 4/4 one day. Anyway, where to source various profiles of rubber, please anyone?
If anyone would like to suggest that I trap a length of cycle inner tube there, and then pump it up, I might give that a go; where could I get hold of an antique rubber bulb that would look good dangling around the mirror area, please?
