i'm pretty certain the most awful thing you can do to your car is decide to strip the sound deadening from the floor. dry ice, heat gun, chisel, yup, i did it all.

anyway, the floor-board had been bugging me all season, so i finally removed the last major bits and cleaned up some rust



*bling bling*


maybe tomorrow I'll do some REAL work on the bucket



Modified by uncleben at 11:22 AM 1/4/2004

 

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I dunno, so far scraping the sound material may have been the most work I've done to the rex. Don't you feel better now?

-travis, who isn't lucky enough to live somewhere where it freezes to make this job easier.

 

Scraping that crap out is real work....took 2 of us a weekend to do it in our CRX:

scrapage:


primer:


gray topcoat:


Final (sort of) product after bodywork:


I hate red. Why did so many Si's have to be red?

 

Came out good What kind of product did you guys use afterwards? paint?roll on?spray? brush on? thanks.

 

For anyone reading this who hasn't already stripped this awful stuff out, a suggestion: air chisel and a cold day. The tar in my GS-R came out in mostly big chunks, and in about 10 minutes, by using the air chisel.

It was louder than hell, but it worked awesome.

 

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Yup. It took me an hour to do my whole Civic with an air chisel. Only cut through the floor once!

 

sorta OT but "work on the kaa" related:
i've been trying to get christina ready for VIR in feb... throwing parts at her is fun and expensive... however, maintenance is a HUGE pain in the ***. I'm 0 for 2 against that crank pulley bolt while trying to replace that timing belt. the first attempt was made with the help of elgorey, .RJ, and JMU R1. the end result:
a busted IMPACT socket


my next attempt was with a 150 psi air compressor and a craftsman 600 ft=lbs impact wrench. again, that bolt is not budging... (no broken sockets though)

tried to soak it in pb blaster, used a cheater bar with a big *** extension but the layout of the bolt in the wheel well and the logistics of fitting a big *** pole prevent me from really using a rediculous 5 ft extension. i'm all out of ideas...

gotta plunk down some serious dough (or d'oh) for someone else to do it now...


-brian

 

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What Karl said. Or, get about 10 lbs of dry ice and break it up into small'ish chunks. Spread the chunks around in the area you're working and wait about 10 minutes. Then go after the floor with a regular hammer and chisel. In fact, after using the dry ice, just smacking the floor with a hammer causes most of the tar to crumble off in big chunks.

$.02

 

where do u get dry ice? and how much?

 

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check your phone book, look under "ice"

 

most grocery stores have it..

 

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my next attempt was with a 150 psi air compressor and a craftsman 600 ft=lbs impact wrench. again, that bolt is not budging... (no broken sockets though)

-brian
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Did you cheat & have someone hold the flywheel still? The last two times that I have done it, we have had to remove the 'cover' & wedge a prybar against the teeth. Used a IR 231 gun with 120 psi. Seems ghetto but it worked.

 

take the crank pulley tool with a fairly long breaker bar, and wedge it against the floor. turn the steering wheel all the way to the left. Use an extention, with a jack stand under where it joins your pry bar. Take 5 foot jack handle and connect to breaker bar. Do a pull up on breaker bar. This is what it took on my car.

 

winter time, just leave your car outside, wear thick clothing and start banngin.

tbelt tool, use a 3/4 inch diesel gun and socket. if not honda has a tool to hold the pulley, then you manually losen the bolt (using a long cheater bar.

 

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GREAT visual next time one thinks about cheating and using non-impact sockets with an air gun. Wouldn't a normal socket have shattered under that kind of pressure?

 

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Probably. And you dont want to be in front of it when it does......

 

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i just used standard latex paint from walmart... used foam brushes because spraying would have been messy and required masking off everything. that, and i would have been mad high in my closed garage

this job might not last a bunch of years, but i don't plan on being in this car in a few years, so oh well