Well, you deserve a reply as much as everyone else and my advise is to scrap it. If it was the drum it was sealed so not sure what you really mean or if it was that pesky front weight trying to escape it will come loose again.Hoovers are not a glowing success at the best of times never mind something stuck in the garden over a Leeds Winter where the inlet valve has pobably cracked if not the pump housing too due to ice. Buy a new machine instead.