The Garmin engine sensor unit, GEA 24 is best close to the engine so that the sensor wire runs are short. The obvious place was the hell hole. The problem as usual, it wasn’t going to be a simple fit.  This happened over a month of fiddling.

This looked like the best spot but there was no where to fix the unit.

I added some foam to make a shelf. Then I trimmed it… too much and later added more foam.

After I had a shelf shape I added two plies of BID. This was in two stages as I needed a flox corner at the edge for strength. It was a ‘process’.

I then added 3 click bonds to mount the unit in place. After cure I realised that I couldn’t get the thing out in that configuration. Doh! So I had to remove the floxed in place click bonds and had to think again. A couple of hours of ‘fun’ there I’ll never get back.

The rethink put the clickbonds on the front edge and only two of them. I also made up a bracket from angle aluminium to hold the unit in position. Much better!

As a little extra, I floxed on another piece of angle on the bottom so the unit is held securely and can’t move even though it only has the two fasteners. Yes I did put two plies of BID over the click bonds and had to add a little micro to transition the edges. You don’t need photos… I’m doing this sort of thing all the time.