Dave's 80 Rehab

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Sporin

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Original thread here: https://forum.ih8mud.com/80-series-tech/246347-new-member-grey-80-club.html

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Spent about 5 hours with the truck today. Started by stripping out the seats and consoles, very easily done. Then pulled up the dingy carpet.

I scrubbed and cleaned it all up and it looks great except for the area right by the driver's door. The carpet was wet, the jute saturated, and the well that the big wire loom lays in was rusty.

Not sure it's a leak or was standing water or it got swamped and never dried or what but I'm going to have sara hose down the truck tomorrow with me in it to see what's what. I'm sure it's nothing major. Then I'll wirebrush the rust and put some paint on it.

Not sure what to do about the carpet. I tried stripping the jute off the back of the cargo carpet and pressure washing it but I don't think i wasn't to do that with the main piece. Just too much water saturation. The main piece is just nasty but I think a heavy vacuuming and a few passes with the carpet shampooer should clean it up well enough.

I've got all the trip pieces soaking in hot soapy water and will clean them and the seats up tomorrow as well. Then I'll give the carpet a few days to dry and reassemble everythign.

Dirty....

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Much better...
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And here's the potential trouble spot...
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dave you have a furnace in your basement? I found the carpet dryied really fast in the basement nice dry heat.

looks great!!! in the fj62 that rust area is caused by a leaky windshield gasket don't use silicon the glass guy said that eats windsheild gaskets and makes the problem worse.

it could also just be thats where water from wet feet and snow collected you might want to set up a drain there or make sure the factory one is open a bit.

man you got alot of truck there :)
Jaosn
 
Yeah, there was mud caked into the carpet and lots of dirt under the plastic pieces which hold the carpet down at each door opening. I suspect it's been a long, long time since anyone gave it a really deep clean like this so I'm hopeful it's just leftover. Still, quite possible it's the windshield gasket as you said. I had that problem on my FJ62 and my first 85 4runner as well. Either way, I'm sure it's nothing big, I'll just get it all dried out and painted up.

Good call on the basement as a drying place, thanks.
 
An 80 now Dave? Nice work. There are two areas you should check. Does this 80 have a sunroof? They all might, I dont know. Either way, the drains on the sunroof clog very easily. Do a search in the 80 forum and you will find lots of info on it. Mine were clogged. Then they are, the water can collect right where you are seeing it.

The other place to look is along the edge of the body, under the doors, on the frame rail side of the truck. You will see drain slots there, maybe the size of a quarter, 3 of them or so. If this truck was wheeled, they might be clogged.

awe heck, i searched and found em:
https://forum.ih8mud.com/80-series-tech/103775-help-please-wet-carpets-driver-side-water-comes.html
in this one you can see the hole for the sunroof that i chased with some wire as well as a ziptie in one of the slits (heh) along the body.
https://forum.ih8mud.com/80-series-tech/78089-wet-floor-please-help-2.html
good luck, have fun!
 
Man that thing is dirty! Wow! Never saw an 80 that bad. Perfect candidate for some rhino lining.
 
Another thought Dave is the windshield. Our 80s need the windshield to be glued in. Unless you specify this to the shop they will just put the glass in without it. A windshield will leak at the bottom corners and run down the firewall on the inside.
 
Dave, if you have a power washer and a shop vac, just spray the interior with laundry detergent and water.
Scrub with a deck brush and extract. Repeat until all of the soap is gone. You'll be left with clean carpets.
 
Hurculine the somebiatch....
 
Leaping Deer said:
What about the one in Hull that Wildman posted up. That thing was gross.
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Oops...LOL...Forgot about that one. That takes the cake. Good thing is Dave's is saveable.That other not so much.
 
It poured last night and sure enough that well where the wireloop sits was full of water this morning. I popped the drain grommet out and dried it up.

Was out most of the day but had a bit of time this evening to snake out the Dside sunroof drain, it was definitely clogged up. I need to get back up there in the daytime and clean that whole channel up, there's a lot of wet dirt up there.

I looked and looked but I don't think I have these drain slits... (as seen in the other thread) or I'm looking in the wrong place.
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They may be Duralined as it looks like when they duralined the flairs they did the lower rockers underneath as well. Might just need to drill a few small holes.
 
Wheel It!
 
My plan with the carpet is to lay it out flat, vacuum, vacuum, vacuum with both my shop-vac and my "house" vacuum which has the beater brushes.

Then soak it good in Simple Green, let soak, then go to town with our big carpet shampooer, that should get it clean anyway,. Then, once I've got the water leaks taken care of, install in the truck, reinstall the seats and stuff.

Tonight I'm hoping to clean up the seats and consoles which are piled in my garage. I also need to spend some time with the headline and some
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but I think that will need to wait until the weekend so I can work in the daylight.

Need to plan a day with Lane in Swanzey before snow flied. :)
 
I would just bedline the interior. I'm not much for carpet, especially in something that you'll wheel.
 
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