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Jul 21st, 2025 | | | | Joined: Dec 2008 Posts: 75 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Dec 2008 Posts: 75 | Ok so I got everything out of the cab and am trying to get the tar off of the inner part of the cab, in some places I can pull it right off and that part of the cab looks great, In other areas it is a patch of lining/tar and dirt and it wont budge. I have tried goo be gone and a floor scraper. Im at a loos here. | | | | | Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,262 Bubba - Curmudgeon | | Bubba - Curmudgeon Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,262 |
Heat-gun and scrape.
Maybe a paint remover will loosen it a little.
In my 54, it simply took a lot of work to loosen it and scrape it off.
| | | | | Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 345 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 345 | If it's straight tar, I've always found that paint thinner works well to dissolve it. | | | | | Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 3,597 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 3,597 | Harbor Freight heat gun $10 and a set of $3 scrapers (you can chuck the scrapers when you finish and if you burn up the gun you won't feel bad). Heat it until it starts to bubble just a bit, let it cool for a few seconds and the scrape it off.
Last edited by Brad Allen; 05/15/2009 5:57 PM.
| | | | | Joined: Dec 2008 Posts: 75 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Dec 2008 Posts: 75 | Thanks all, I have a ton of scrappers, I'll go buy that heat gun and I have a ton of paint thinner. | | | | | Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 3,750 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 3,750 | calhere...I'm suprised you're having probs...My truck came from So-Cal and every bit of tar board was like Bakelite!
It was baked to death and flaked off easily.
Maybe I was just lucky.......
Hope you get it all off.
Good luck.
1950 Chevy Advance Design 3100 in ScotlandIn the Stovebolt GalleryMore pix on Flickr. I've definately got this truck thing in my blood ... my DNA sequence has torque settings"Of all the small nations of this earth,perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind" Winston Churchill.
| | | | | Joined: Dec 2008 Posts: 75 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Dec 2008 Posts: 75 | Mine came from up north in the mountains. | | |
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