Lets say I wanted to build a car...
Posted by BobOfTheFuture
Rob Mega Moderator Location: LI, NY Join Date: 09/25/2010 Age: Settling Down Posts: 629 Rally Car: None, anymore. |
What do you mean?!
Think its time I let it die? Enablers, All of you. Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/16/2012 08:28AM by BobOfTheFuture. |
Andrew Steere Junior Moderator Location: South Central Nude Hamster Join Date: 12/29/2005 Age: Possibly Wise Posts: 2,008 Rally Car: too rich for my blood, share a LeMons car |
Rob Mega Moderator Location: LI, NY Join Date: 09/25/2010 Age: Settling Down Posts: 629 Rally Car: None, anymore. |
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Rob Mega Moderator Location: LI, NY Join Date: 09/25/2010 Age: Settling Down Posts: 629 Rally Car: None, anymore. |
Rob Mega Moderator Location: LI, NY Join Date: 09/25/2010 Age: Settling Down Posts: 629 Rally Car: None, anymore. |
So, Today I went out and started to remove the sound deadening material form the car. I used the dry ice method... I gotta say, didn't work as well as I'd hoped. I used about 10 lbs of the stuff and couldnt seem to get it cold enough to come off cleanly, except where the metal was thinner, like the raised area under the seats. I ended up using the claw side of a hammer a bunch to get it to come off in clumps... scratched the metal a bit in places, but im not too worried.
I ran out of Ice and daylight at about the same time and called it at day with half of the trans tunnel still covered, and the sheet in the trunk untouched. I figure this is best left for tommorrow. Other Volvo guys: any of you have a better way or removing the stuff from the trans tunnel? I removed half of it, but bent the thin sheet metal there a bit. I think I am going to have to get some more ice and rig up something to hold it to the tunnel and get a good freeze goin'. Also, What do you guys do with the left over adhesive spots? Just paint over it?  Enablers, All of you. |
Brian Klausen Godlike Moderator Location: Denmark Join Date: 03/21/2006 Age: Midlife Crisis Posts: 388 Rally Car: VW Golf GTi 16V |
For the left over spots, I just use a rag with thinners. Shouldn't take too long.
Next time maybe try to break the dry ice into smaller bits for better contact. The dry ice I had when don't it, was in small pellets. It really "flowed" well around the contours of the sheet metal. Also, let it sit for 15 minutes or so after applying the ice to get a freeze going. Brgrds Brian 
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Rob Mega Moderator Location: LI, NY Join Date: 09/25/2010 Age: Settling Down Posts: 629 Rally Car: None, anymore. |
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Brian Klausen Godlike Moderator Location: Denmark Join Date: 03/21/2006 Age: Midlife Crisis Posts: 388 Rally Car: VW Golf GTi 16V |
Maybe VW and Volvo-stuff isn't the same, but it worked on my Golf  .
Just removing the left over residue or "markings" if you well (the foreigner lacking knowledge of whether there is a better word here) I have done quite effectively with thinner. Pics or it didn't happen: The pellets I had available: 
After 15 minutes or so this is what I had on the underside: (obviously it will depend on the humidity of the air, and Denmark generally is fairly humid... not SoCal - but I guess NY shouldn't be that different) 
After chipping it all off I was left with this (the white area I had done at a previous time using heat gun and scraper - took me all evening to do that tiny area... got three times that + more done in one evening using dry ice) 
Having been over it with a rag with thinner, steel brush on a grinder, after a bit of welding, etc.:  Brgrds Brian
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Rob Mega Moderator Location: LI, NY Join Date: 09/25/2010 Age: Settling Down Posts: 629 Rally Car: None, anymore. |
I got the pellets for day #2. They worked pretty good, I was able to get more off, but still lots of that residue left. I weighed the crap I hammered off this (my) weekend, It came out to about 15 lbs.
I used the rest of the the day to pull out the wiring harnes from the dash to the rear of the car and start pairing it down. Unfortunately, I cut a few wires that I belived were junk for the stereo. So now I think I am going to have to repair some wires for the 2 tail lights, and something for the fuel pump... D'oh 
Luckily, With how simplified everything is w/o interior and useless crap, the repair should be easy 
Not that too many are reading this anyhow.... Enablers, All of you. Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/22/2012 09:54PM by BobOfTheFuture. |
kevin zidkovich Elite Moderator Location: edmonton Join Date: 01/07/2012 Age: Midlife Crisis Posts: 84 Rally Car: 1980 242 |
Rob Mega Moderator Location: LI, NY Join Date: 09/25/2010 Age: Settling Down Posts: 629 Rally Car: None, anymore. |
Really? Okay, Ill make sure to take more gooder pics of the car just for you, pist'n.
And, about the other threads, I know right? It sure is handy. Also good at making me feel slow and making me get out there
Good luck with yours mang, I look foward to seeing how it goes. Enablers, All of you. |
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