Aircooled VW South Africa

A question for those that have done this before (and probably sworn never to do it again...)

How do you get the tar / bitumen stuff off of the pan!?

For that matter, how do you get rid of all the fluffy stuff glued to the body under the upholstery as well?

use a heatgun from underneath and scrape it of. try it on the fluff also.

Man... that brings back memories.

Best thing is to get it as dry as possible. If it's wet (car's leaking or pan's been out in the rain) it's an absolute pain to work with, but when it's dry you can get it off with a paint scraper and a steel brush.

You can read more about what I've done in this regard, at the following two links:

http://www.djb.co.za/project_christn/first_cuts
http://www.djb.co.za/project_christn/never_rains

Heat gun, a scraper(like those you use for Polyfilla) and a SH!T load of patience. That stuff is from the devil himself just to give you headaches..... Good luck, it takes f'n AGES to get that crap off.....

Dirk - remember reading your flour trick a while ago

Will wait til I've got the pan out, then will attack that naaasty stuff at leisure.

Heat, heat and more heat, oh and a pint scraper. Have a look here for some picture doing it: http://www.aircooledvwsa.co.za/viewtopi ... &start=150
A piece of cake, get it real hot (just before it starts burning) and it comes off almost clean.

sarel.wagner wrote:A piece of cake, get it real hot (just before it starts burning) and it comes off almost clean.

No, I agree. On the larger flat parts of the pan, it comes of fairly easy..... It is those &àù$(à"' !!!! little nooks and crannies that is the b!tch

dry ice..................took me a little under an hour to clean the floors on my old beetle.

heat gun is nice and all, but it liquifies everything...................dry ice lets you just break the tar panels off in chunks.

If only I know where to get dry ice from here in France, I would've gone that route

Ice cream factory?

I stopped a dude in one of those mobile carts up near union buildings, paid him R50 for a huge chunk of the stuff.

as for france..................eish.......I dunno.

davetapson wrote: Dirk - remember reading your flour trick a while ago

is that to look for the wet spot?

Tony Z wrote:

davetapson wrote: Dirk - remember reading your flour trick a while ago

is that to look for the wet spot?

Dotn talk about his missus like that Tony!

Chris wrote:Ice cream factory?

Ag nee man, jy grap seker!? You DO remember where we live right? IF I do find an ice cream factory(it is too cold here for ice cream. And we dont have those --- ahem...... "ice cream bicycles" here!) I am not going to drive 60km to buy a 1kg piece

ZeroAxe wrote:

sarel.wagner wrote:A piece of cake, get it real hot (just before it starts burning) and it comes off almost clean.

No, I agree. On the larger flat parts of the pan, it comes of fairly easy..... It is those &àù$(à"' !!!! little nooks and crannies that is the b!tch

ever heard of CHILD/SLAVE LABOUR