White Trash Lexus - Phoenix - Fire restoration
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WELD UP THE WHEEL WELLS!!!! Brave Brave Man.
Good Luck
Hey, everything flamable is out!
Famous last words
Also, the headliner has the same jute underneath it as the carpet. You didn't take that, so you'll probably want to line the roof or dynamat it or something.
Your right, I didn't mean to suggest that your jute caught fire.
The carpet would help prevent it from catching, likely the carpet would melt into a plastic puddle before catching fire, if it gets that far you got bigger worries than the jute catching fire.
Use oven cleaner on those windows. It'll take the soot right off. You could probably use oven cleaner on the entire thing, but it's caustic stuff...
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Finally got a few minutes while the kids were asleep to try and clean some of the tar. I thought I had some alcohol around, and I think I do, as well as some zylene, but the garage is a mess right now, so I just grabed some minerial spirits and some rubber gloves and sat down with some rags and started rubbing. Unless the zylene or alcohol cuts it better, the wire brushes are coming out. The lighter areas won't be an issue to wipe down, but the area's in the photos are the worst.
Was recomended Majic paint - and I picked some up at Atwoods (local farm and barn store) - Desert Sand Flat Cammo Paint. That will be covering the whole interior except the floor (Durabak over the sound deadening) before too long. It'll take me a couple weeks of snagging an hour here and hour there to get this thing cleaned up and ready for the interior to go back in.
Was recomended Majic paint - and I picked some up at Atwoods (local farm and barn store) - Desert Sand Flat Cammo Paint. That will be covering the whole interior except the floor (Durabak over the sound deadening) before too long. It'll take me a couple weeks of snagging an hour here and hour there to get this thing cleaned up and ready for the interior to go back in.
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noticable improvement, but too slow.
The real question is will it be ready for SMORR?
As I mentioned, try spray on oven cleaner. 
I use it to clean off the window of our wood burning stove, works great.
I use it to clean off the window of our wood burning stove, works great.
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Humm.... SMORR is next weekend, and I work every day, then the wife goes to work when I get home and I am responsible for the 2 and 4 year old till morning.... I'm thinking that's a no. I got an offer to use the little blue truck if I still wanted to come up and do the Sippie Cup Challenge, but doing it without bringing my kids isn't right, plus wifes schedule got changed, so going wtihout kids isn't an option.... I'm bummed about it for sure.
Probably gonna miss Southern Crusier Crawl too, Green Country Cruiser Picnic is a maybe, maybe Rocktober? Great.... now I'm depressed....
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As I mentioned, try spray on oven cleaner.
So, I spray the oven cleaner on the roof, and where is the stuff going to go? Onto to my sound proofing that isn't full of soot. I'm certainly not going be in the truck with that stuff. That stuff is just severly toxic and I really don't want anything to do with it. So I'll try everything else first.
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You don't have to go whole hog with it. But I'd try a little of it instead of a wire brush.
In all honesty, I'd leave the soot and find a used interior from someone parting out their car.
But I'd try a little of it instead of a wire brush.In all honesty, I'd leave the soot and find a used interior from someone parting out their car.
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You don't have to go whole hog with it.
In all honesty, I'd leave the soot and find a used interior from someone parting out their car.
Wow - try reading a thread before posting in it -what the heck do you think is in those big boxes?
If the soot isn't taken care of before putting the new interior in, it's going to smell like burnt interior.
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Deal with the soot, don't just cover it up.
On the over cleaner, they do make some cleaner that doesn't put out fumes. Was digging around in our laundry room and spotted some that the
bought, thought of this thread. Might be worth a shot. 
Lol, I'll amend my "no need to get touchy post" and say yeah, I did read it but it was several days ago and I had forgotten. Regardless, good luck with your issues.
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Try a High Pressure , Pressure washer. Home depot rents the good ones. Blow that thing out..........
Water can be as damaging as the fire. If using water, I wouldn't ever suggest anything that is high pressure or high volume. It'll clean it out all right, but would wreak havoc on the electronics.
If the rig was stripped of all electronics, I'd say go for it. But not if there is wiring/connections/ECU/etc in there.
Black and Decker makes some low speed power scrubbers for household use. I've found them handy for big cleaning jobs. They save a lot of hand and forearm fatigue. They might be worth a look. By the looks of your project, it might be a handy tool.
Looking good so far, I hope it all works out for you.
Looking good so far, I hope it all works out for you.
How opposed are you to gutting the interior completely? If you are up to the challenge, gut the interior (dash included) remove the body and get the inside soda blasted. Yes it will be a lot of work, but trust me, it will make your life so much easier. All the chemicals, wire brushes, etc... will eventually work, but it is slow going and more laborous in the long run.
Once the interior has been soda blasted (you can also use walnut shells or powdered plastic) spray it with an industrial paint and re- install your interior.
Give Blasting Specialties in Tulsa a call. They are a large supplier of media and equipment and even do some work in their shop.
Once the interior has been soda blasted (you can also use walnut shells or powdered plastic) spray it with an industrial paint and re- install your interior.
Give Blasting Specialties in Tulsa a call. They are a large supplier of media and equipment and even do some work in their shop.
When you pick-up the Majic paint, you'll probably want to get some of their catalyst/hardener, too (#8-950-4). I shot our M101 trailer with OD without the hardener and it was pretty soft at first. I'd never used hardener before and figured it wasn't that big a deal to not use it, especially with flat paint. The paint came out great otherwise, although I have limited experience with painting stuff this big. Majic is good stuff, but...
Then I painted some NATO fuel cans using Majic's hardener. Those babies came out great, much smoother (but still flat), and the paint was clearly harder to scuff, etc right after drying.
Good luck, you're making progress, even though at this point I'm sure you wish it'd go faster even if you had more time to work on it.
Then I painted some NATO fuel cans using Majic's hardener. Those babies came out great, much smoother (but still flat), and the paint was clearly harder to scuff, etc right after drying.
Good luck, you're making progress, even though at this point I'm sure you wish it'd go faster even if you had more time to work on it.
