The center brake light was mounted high on the fiberglass top, and it leaked... big time.... that and it's little more than a joke. It's more on the top than the back. Prolly worked great for any low flying helicopters. Not so much the traffic behind, so I took it out. If you go back to the first pic on the first page you'll see what I mean. You can't really see it from standing back there.
So I removed the housing and roughed up the fiberglass gel coat with some 180 paper. I've got some aluminum tape from my airplane days that's just one step down from sheet stock. Cut that to fit the opening and stuck it in. Hit that with the 180 paper too. Yeah, it's that tough. Cleaned it all up and bondo'd it all flush to the outside. It's primed but not shot white yet. There was storm clouds in the distance and I didn't want to chance it.
As I'm want to do, I forgot to take some before pics.... here's some after. I'm gonna find some nice LED combo driving/turn/brake lights and mount one on each side of the top. High enough to be visible pullin' a bike trailer or some such, but low enough the helicopters don't try and navigate on it.
There's been a Home Depot bucket in the back to catch the rain. So yeah... problem solved, bucket removed.
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