Biohazard

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My guy Bryan took the windshield out for me. He says its Chinese glass :( He also says the gasket is in fine shape but I think I'm going to replace it anyway. It has some Scorch Red overspray on it and I'm no fan of water leaks.

I immediately pulled the dash frame out and attacked the last of the insulation. Got the bulk of the soft stuff out by hand, then went for the pressure washer. 2500 psi quickly blasted the glued-on insulation off and down to bare, painted metal. It also made short work of the waxy black seal sealer which is so dried out and hardened...it ain't much of a sealer anymore (my opinion). I'll put down something fresher during reassembly.

The pressure washer provided mechanical removal of the lingering insulation fibre and any dust and dirt accumulations all of which are safe harbors for mold. A re-treat with the ammonia will follow to kill mold and generally sanitize every square inch of surface area inside the car (outside, too because I'm going to do it all at once to prevent any re-contamination)

Here is the forward floor plan after getting blasted/rinsed.

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Once more with flash...

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You can see in the above pictures that there remains some glue residue up near the cowl. I figure the ammonia will help get that off and, if not, I'll scrub off whatever's left.

Cleaned out the windshield gasket channel.

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Over to the driver's side. Gonna wrap some more of that wiring bundle and recover the exposed wires.

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Taking this out...well worth the money spent on windshield removal. I will be better able to clean it as well as the rest of the firewall with it out of the car.

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Okay, last thing for a while: here's the heater and A/C box, partly disassembled, and half-*** cleaned. The fresh air boxes are here, too.

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Next event: With all of the loose items taken out of the car, I'll go at it with the pump sprayer and ammonia from end to end, inside and out. I'll need a respirator, though. Ain't going thru that again. Also going to pull some select items back out of the parts bin for some ammonia-based cleaning.

It was nearly 100F today. I have the luxury of time so I will wait for some mo decent weather before administering the cat pee treatment.

until then....
 
Can you help me out and post a pic of where the front glass clips sit in the channel and the lower ones from the inside of the car? I am adding chrome trim to my car and have most holes drilled but was told the lowers are not in same heights as the other clips. Do the lowers stick up past the cowl? If so how much? Thanks in advance
 
Sedanman said:
Can you help me out and post a pic of...
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No problem. I'll shoot this afternoon.

Vitamin C...
Yeah, just hired a guy to pull the glass. That was pretty much all it took and I do not see ANY other way to do it. And damn it's gonna need to cool off some around here.

Anybody have suggestions on what to use in place of the original seal sealer? (that black wax on the seams inside the cabin floor that my pressure washer took off :D )
 
3M brushable seam sealer. comes in a quart can. Last time I used it, it was grey in color, but they may have black also, im not really sure.
 
We used stadard 3M seal sealer in the caulk tube and just put 2 strips of making tape on either side of the line to be filled and smoothe it with my finger the remove the tape for a clean look
 
edit:
Had to fix the 6th photo in my long post above...'over to the driver's side'.

Pictures sent.
 
Knowing it was gonna be hot and miserable today, I rose at 5am and went to work peeling all of the electrical tape off of the wiring bundles inside the cabin. This was done to ensure that the ammonia would reach everywhere, including between all of the individual strands of wire.

Got the wiring unwrapped and a respirator on and soaked the entire inside with about 3/4 gallon of cat whiz making sure to spray into all the hidden crevices. Did the ceiling, did the insides of the doors and all glass, and of course soaked the wiring. Then went through another 1/2 gallon or so on the underside - once again. But this time, with a twist: I left the stuff on there. I figured, the longer it had to do its thing, the better.

By 9 o'clock, the heat was up and the ammonia had largely evaporated out of the car (which was smelling a hell of a lot better now). I decided to tape off the windshield opening with some heavy 6mil plastic sheet and re-spray the interior and immediately close everything up. I figured the vapor would get places the spray wasn't reaching and make serious inroads against the smelly contaminants.

So now its been several hours and the car is still closed up but it has started raining. Fine by me as it cools things down alot. This poor car has seen more water since its been in my driveway than in its entire life beforehand.

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Car still a little stinky. Problem not yet solved.

So, today after work I got inside the car with a washcloth and scrub brush. Scrubbed down the entire inside of the car with a little Krud Kutter to help loosen up the old glue (from the insulation) and a product called Sani-Scrub / Invisi-shield. The SaniScrub is kinda like soft scrub in that it has a very light abrasive quality to it which I figured would be good to get the surfaces really clean.

Well, it did. I was amazed at how brown the rinse water was after washing down each section of the inside, especially after all the spraying and rinsing it's already been through. All that treating with ammonia may have killed or inerted but I had to lay some good ol' fashioned elbow grease to actually get it all out of the car.

Have to wait till tomorrow after the car's been bottled up in the sun for a while before I can sniff-check it. If this doesn't work, I still have vinegar, C3, and more sodium chlorite. This fight ain't over.
 
Ugh...more cleaning. The neighbor's must think me daft at this point.

Wife says the car smells much better but still not right. Okay, a little google time and evidently Borax is "highly effective" against most molds. It's cheap, easy to use, and not as painful to work with as was the ammonia. It is also a "deodorizer" which may be key. So I mix up a gallon in the pump sprayer and wet everything down on the interior. Two more gallons mixed up and the underside got soaked down with the mix. Left it all too sit for a while so it could do it's work.

Now, the last treatment I gave her with the ammonia was a double treatment to the belly and has never been rinsed off. Decided I would go ahead and rinse the tummy thoroughly to wash off the Borax as well as the ammonia.

Once again, filthy brown rinse water. This car has probably shed about 20 pounds in crud to date. After the underbody rinse, I proceeded to do a normal soap and water wash of the rest of the car.

By the end of the day, Mrs. Teeth & Tires acknowledged that she thinks the car is 99% better than the day I dragged it home. Best news yet.

Since I don't want to put the nasty car cover back on it, I'll need to get a new one. In the meantime, I cleaned the vinyl Slickback top and did the first application with the 303 protectant.

Gonna be hot again today. Have to check the smell after the car heat's up.
 
BORAX works good. Wife cleaned all the cloths we were able to save after
A bad house fire years ago with it. We were able to save alot and got all the stench out.
 
I think the car smells great. My wife still detects even though to a lesser degree. Very frustrating.

Today's prorgram was to jack up each of the front corners, one at a time, and remove the front wheels so I could clean them. When I got the wheel off, I found these 'pockets' in the framework that had filled up with and were retaining large amounts of dirt and pebbles. I was only too happy to blast all of it out of those pockets along with a light degreasing of all the surrounding parts. Cleaned the wheels and tires and put them back on getting the 'cuda down off he jackstands after being up for a month.

Also cleaned those Valiant hubcaps. They are in GREAT condition! So...who wants 'em?
 
Great news!!!

I have located a serviceable '69 header panel!

It is, however, 12 hours away.
 
There may be one small place thay you could have missed, the wiper pivot seals have a soft foam substance that may be holding some funk.
I would replace them anyways with the car tore down that far.
 
sireland67 said:
There may be one small place thay you could have missed, the wiper pivot seals have a soft foam substance that may be holding some funk.
I would replace them anyways with the car tore down that far.
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Very good point. Although I had already intended to replace them just to ensure a leak-free cabin, I had NOT thought of them as possibly being funky.
 
So here's this week's installment:

We live in Alabama and don't want to. Took a roadtrip (our 3rd one, now) to scout out somewhere we might prefer to relocate to. This time, Idaho! Yep - a 5,300 mile round trip. So before I left, I checked Craigslist in all the cities we'd be traveling through for some of those elusive '69 Barracuda parts and was able to locate a header panel outside St. Louis. About 2 miles off of I-70, could it get more convenient?

So on the way out, I stopped in and checked it out. Good enough for me and the price was right. He agreed to hold onto it for me until I came back through on the return trip. Well, we're back now and here's the panel...

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I hate shipping fees.
 
Teeth & Tires said:
So here's this week's installment:

We live in Alabama and don't want to. Took a roadtrip (our 3rd one, now) to scout out somewhere we might prefer to relocate to. This time, Idaho! Yep - a 5,300 mile round trip. So before I left, I checked Craigslist in all the cities we'd be traveling through for some of those elusive '69 Barracuda parts and was able to locate a header panel outside St. Louis. About 2 miles off of I-70, could it get more convenient?

So on the way out, I stopped in and checked it out. Good enough for me and the price was right. He agreed to hold onto it for me until I came back through on the return trip. Well, we're back now and here's the panel...

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I hate shipping fees.
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Did the guy have a 1967 Barracuda fastback that used to belong to his father in his garage? It is beautifully restored if it was him. I bought some parts from him but I can't recall his name.
 
Slow couple o' weeks since the road trip. Weather makes working on the car un-fun but I did sand down the rust on the header panel and spray-bombed the whole thing with some rust-o-leum as a preservative. After all, its gonna be a while before I put this piece into service.

I've procured an engine hoist. Need to pull the motor. I can better clean the underhood with the 318 dangling from a chain. Then, the motor itself can be cleaned thoroughly and repainted.
 
Startin' my day early tomorrow to lift the motor out. Gotta get at it early so i'll have time to remove it and thoroughly clean it by day's end. Can't leave a borrowed hoist unsecured in the driveway and can't bring a dirty motor into the garage so, it all has to happen in one shot.

Last weekend, I disconnected everything but the mounts. Pulling the transmission bolts, I can tell you that the accumulation of gunk in that area is legendary.
 
Oh yeah...almost forgot. I finally took the title in for transfer TODAY officially making the car mine. Also got tags..."vintage vehicle" type.

Looks like this.
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Not pretty, but you pay one time and you're done.
 
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