how do you guys get the sound padding off the floor? any clean way before i paint

 

use dry ice... let it sit on the tar for a few minutes or until you see the tar almost turn white, then you can use a chisel flat head, etc... to take it off

 

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that seems to work well for older cars...


The newer tar i've encountered didn't really flake like it was supposed to. Therefore, a heat gun, chisel, and manual labor came into play

 

I used dry ice on my crx also...just let it sit there for about 20 minutes, came back and hit it witha hammer. It started to chip, then I used a chisel for anything that was left over.

 

i just used a hell of a heat gun and a scraper and about 2 hours to remove it all outta my 97 cx. all that is about 15 lbs. id say

 

Just cut the floor out...to hell with chipping that stuff out.

 

Or hire a couple neighbor kids to do it...ha ha. The heat gun makes a mess for sure. If you do it that way...and you get most of it out, add WD40 to the small tar parts left over. That adds the oil back to the tar and then you can wipe it off with a rag.

 

I never said it was easy...but it seams like the most effiecient way to do it.

There will be some tar that wont come off even with the dry ice over it but lifes a bitch.

 

the wd40 works well for the small left over pieces

 

I have a new car and dry ice worked the best. heating it will cause a big mess. Ive tried it all and dry ice worked the best.

 

For the little bit of left over tar and small pieces of sound deadoning, i used a drill with a wire brush attachment. It worked very well.

 

you guys make too much work for yourselves... j/p

i used an air chisel on mine.. peeled that **** rite up... took a total of 15min to do the entire inside of the car... but i did get carried away in one spot and cut threw the floor...

Mike...

 

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lucky, i tried dry ice on a new car and it didn't help at all!!

 

A really cold day helped me.
The rest I used a heat gun.
With the sticky stuff I used a adhesive remover from the auto parts store.

 

so... how much faster were all your cars after removing all the sound deadening material? did the *** dyno approve? i was thinking about removing mine..

 

every pound counts, id say it all weighs about 12-15 lbs.

 

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If you aren't going full out on your car, there are ALOT of other things i think i'd do before removing tar.... But if you have nothing else, then have fun!