Right todays task was to start removing the tar from the floor as its gonna take all week to grab the time to get it all up so i thought i may aswell do a quick guide
first you'll need a heat gun and sum sort of scraper or chisel
now remember these heat guns get very very hot i tried to use it for 1 min at a time then off for a minute then repeat just as i have a habit for breaking tools.
here's the tar before removal
now with the heat gun on try and spread the heat around if it starts bubbling up like bubble bath your either spending to long in one area or you've got the heat gun to close
allowing the peeled up tar to fall onto the rest will heat the unscraped tar making it easy to scrape up. Keep scraping it back until there is to much excess to handle, slice it off and leave the lump to the side.
I did the first two patches in about 20 mins if that it was a really easy job here's a quick pic
remeber mind for wires you dont want to melt them to, i unclip the rear loom at one point and moved it aside because knowing my luck i'd burn right through them and not even notice!
I repeated this the the tar panel on the boot floor and this is the amount taken off so far
i estimate it being just under 1/3 of the total tar on the floor and believe me its pretty darn heavy when you add it up
thats 1.4kg so im looking at atleast a 5.5kg loss which is more then what you'd save with a carbon bonnet
i'll put some pics up later after cleaning up the remaining tar it will leave a better surface for when the cars painted eventually.
Mark :boring:
