[Jackson]

So apparently back in the 80's wearing mullets and filling your lungs with tar just wasn't enough, everyone wanted that little bit more tar in their life and filling a sierra with it was the ultimate goal.

30 years later you can see the rust coming through on the other side and the tar has to come off. Being a lazy uni student physical labour isn't your strong suit but having attending many BBQs and parties your scraping skills are honed and you wouldn't say no to a beer.

Your going to need a bottle of kero, a scraper, some rags and something to keep the fumes away would be advised if your indoors.

Lay the rags on the tared area and soak them in kero.

Go have a beer or do some other work.

After a couple of hours start scraping, all the soft stuff will come off, repeat until its all gone.


Try your hardest not to set your car on fire.

[Gwagensteve]

Iv'e stripped HEAPS of that stuff and I always do it cold/dry. Adding anything - solvent/heat to soften it just makes the mess bigger IMHO.

Apparently the pro way to do it (as in - race car builders) is with a shovel full of dry ice. Leave it for a few minutes and then give it a tap with a hammer and it shatters and you can just sweep it up.

Steve.

[Jackson]

Gwagensteve wrote:

Apparently the pro way to do it (as in - race car builders) is with a shovel full of dry ice. Leave it for a few minutes and then give it a tap with a hammer and it shatters and you can just sweep it up.

I'm going to try that in the other foot well.

[atari4x4]

the dry ice technique works a treat with the thick factory sound deadening, don't reckon it will work that well with the brushed on tar.

do sierra's have factory sound deadening?

get the dry ice pellets & either put them in a bag flattened out & move it around once you hear it start to crack & pop or if you have a heap just spread it out in the footwell.

[reeceh]

Removing tar:
Step1) pull carpet/vinyl up and inspect tar
Step2) Fetch a beer from the fridge
Step3) glue carpet/vinyl back down for no one to ever see again and continue to drink beer


Job well done!

[mrw82]

That's all well and good if your in the 1 percentile. But what about the 99% of sierra drivers that don't have vinyl or carpet. Just big tarry rust holes.

[KEENSY85]

I don't mind that tar till u got a remove it as long as some monkey hasn't done it for a rust repair

[buzbox]

atari4x4 wrote:

do sierra's have factory sound deadening?

Yes

Why?

NFI

I removed the vilyn from mine today and the only tar bits are only in the foot well, so perhaps it's more of a heat shield or to reinforce it, the firewall and trans tunnel is foam backed vilyn that is clipped on. I guess that would be the sound deadening bit of it. Driving along this arvo, there's absolutly no noticable difference.

[atari4x4]

it would be there to stop the resonance, bit like using dynamat with car stereo's

[sideways]

atari4x4 wrote:

the dry ice technique works a treat with the thick factory sound deadening, don't reckon it will work that well with the brushed on tar.

do sierra's have factory sound deadening?

x2 for the first bit.

1.3ls do, type 1 and 2 1ls don't. NFI about type 3 1ls and Marutis though.

[shep]

My 1985 sj51 has factory sound tar stuff in the foot well and under the front seats.

[Gwagensteve]

They all do, even early 1.0 litres.

Steve.

[sideways]

Gwagensteve wrote:

They all do, even early 1.0 litres.

Steve.

I have never seen a type 1 or 2 1l with the tar sound deadening on the floor.

[fully sick coily]

COILYS DO!

[31zook]

Jimmy's do! It's the soft stuff in em.

[hooki]

I found lots of rust under the factory sound deadening mat that is glued to the floor. Could be worth you removing it aswell if you're concerned about rust. Just use a cold chisel and hammer and it will chip off. The above dry ice method mentioned works great for the stuff, lot's of people building race cars do it that way.

[shep]

Air chisel for the win


http://i415.photobucket.com/albums/pp23 ... 4B75-1.mp4

[hooki]

shep wrote:

Air chisel for the win


http://i415.photobucket.com/albums/pp23 ... 4B75-1.mp4

thats just cheating ..... I wish I had one of them when I removed mine

[KEENSY85]

shep wrote:

Air chisel for the win


http://i415.photobucket.com/albums/pp23 ... 4B75-1.mp4

All good till u hit some rust, cheater