tar paper removal

[redstuffus]

any tricks on getting tar paper up from the floor.some say heat it,some say not to.anyone done this recently.need advice.thanx to all

[McGuirk]

I think it depends on the condition of the tar boards--if they're really bonded to the pan or not. Luckily on mine, I was able to pull off a good portion of them by hand. I found it easiest to not heat them or use any kind of solvent. I used a heavy duty scraper tool to chip off the remaining pieces. It took a while, but I think the other way would be a lot messier.
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[redstuffus]

about the same condition,most of it came up,just minor peices that will scrape off,just taking a long time,which solvent would you recommend if any is needed.very nice by the way and thanx

[Matt Miller]

knock off the major chunks of the tar board with a hammer and cold chisel or an old large flathead screwdriver. then use a 4 inch angle grinder with a wire brush on it to get the left left over tar tidbits and old paint off with major ease.

[renderit]

Used a very stiff putty knife (scrapper) and a hammer. Came off relatively easy.
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[SuperDave63]

Ditto on what they said. Use a cheap chisel to scrap most of it and an angle grinder with a wire wheel to clean it the rest of the way. Heat might just make a mess of it by softening it up and causing it to smear all over.

[suburbiana]

DO NOT use heat! My boards looked the same as McGuirk's, except they had a cheapo piece of Dynamat-wannabee produt under each seat area - the first thing I did was hit it with heat gun and scraper, what a mess! Spent the next day with a can of aircraft stripper trying to undo the mess I made (BTW, that stuff will get your floors down to bare metal pronto, which makes it really nice to clean up the surface rust). For the rest of the project I simply used a scraper and finessed as much as I could off manually, the little bit left all came up after I used the stripper/brush/wire wheel.

Craig

[vwoval.com]

Manual Labor. Some I have simply pulled up.. others have taken the hammer and flat wide driver to peal it up one row at a time.
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[KantDriveFast]

[67 Florida Deluxe]

I had success with mineral spirits on the bits that remained on mine. I would let it soak in then wipe down. A little messy but I had a big floor fan blowing through the car so I wouldn't get too high!
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[DominoTree]

Good old fashioned gasoline will totally dissolve that stuff.

[Hakka]

I use the end of a file to get the chunks off. Then that go-jo orange hand cleaner seems to help get alot of it off as well. But I guess gas might get desolve it like stated above.

[66topdown]

I did some by scraping first and getting everything off as well as possible. Then I used the torch and some paper towels to heat and wipe a small area at a time. Then I used some solvent to finish it off. It was very clean when I finished.

[Major Woody]

I did it cold with a chisel and then used solvent.
Heat is not good.

[jaymie]

I used heat with no problem, yes it was a little messy but not that bad and it did the job.
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[D'sBUG]

I did it cold, chisel, elbow greese, wire wheel and most of all tender love and care.

[stinger381]

I took mine off with an air compressor and an air hammer with a cold chisel attached.

[VeeDubya]

I wouldn't rcommend using gasoline. Brake parts cleaner get the stuff off very well, and is safer than gasoline. And possibly cheaper! I used scrapers and a 4" grinder with heavy steel cup brush to remove the stuff from my 914 and finnished up with brake parts cleaner.

I'll be doing the same project soon to my '65. What do you guys recommend I gho back with? New tar boards, dynomat???

[Schnitzelfuss]

No heat, just makes a sticky mess. And using a wire wheel will generate heat and leave a sticky mess and a ruined wire wheel. Unless you don’t mind leaving tar residue on everything the wire wheel touches after you’re done with this job.
I found using a large scraper gets all the big stuff and for any sticky reside that is just smearing around Oil Eater worked great. Spray the residue, let it sit a minute, then scrape. It turned the tar residue into a consistency similar to that clear rubbery adhesive that holds the cardboard labels on plastic lunch meat containers. Scrapes right off and leaves a clean surface underneath. BTW Oil Eater is paint safe and works very well on the engine, trans, etc. as well.