Having spent much of the last couple of years distracted by work, I’m beginning to assess jobs that need doing on the car. (Near the) top of the list is hunting down any rust that might be spreading out of sight and renewing the anti-rust protection that I think was last done in 1989.
I’ve been aware since I bought my car that there is a mottling / incrustation / something behind the dashboard around the old flasher unit that I’d like to identify. I’ve attached an image.
1) It’s some old converted rust that someone treated a long time ago (although it doesn’t look like that to me), , or other form of preservation effort that I need to be mindful of.
2) At some point someone made modifications and that residue was left over (Why would the disused Lucas flasher unit not have been removed in that case)?
3) At some point there was a catastrophic leak of the break fluid. It wasn’t cleared up properly and that’s what remains (superficially it looks similar, but it seems an odd thing not to have cleaned up).
Does anyone recognise it?
