Best way to remove all this deadener?

[Firestorm]

I've started attacking it a bit with chisels/screwdrivers etc, but it's pretty tough shit.

Would a heat gun free it up a bit? Then some xylene or something to clean it up?

It'll all the painted over with lizardskin eventually, so i want it to be smooth as.

[NitroSpazzz]

I removed mine a while ago without too much trouble. I used a heat gun and scraper. Another option is putting dry ice on it, let it sit for a could minutes then move the ice and hit it with a hammer. Supposedly the stuff just shatters apart if you do this.

[jlevie]

I removed that stuff from my track rat with an air chisel. That's a fast way to do it, but it runs the risk of damage to the sheet metal if you aren't careful. A safer, if slower and messier, way is to use a heat gun. Once the sound deadening is out mineral spirits will remove the residue.

[Firestorm]

Air chisel sounds a bit brutal :p The dry ice idea is cool too (pun lol) I'll go out and buy a heat gun tomorrow and see how it goes.

Thanks

[Farbin Kaiber]

dry ice really works, just put it on, let it freeze, then remove with chisel and hammer.

[asubimmer]

I just used a scraper tool thats made for stuff like this....

[StereoInstaller1]

Apparently, if you pick up your E30 with a forklift, that shit just shatters.

Of course the floor is not too nice after that, but yeah.

[Firestorm]

Apparently, if you pick up your E30 with a forklift, that shit just shatters.

Omg rly?

[Farbin Kaiber]

oh shiv.

[jlevie]

Air chisel sounds a bit brutal

Oh it is, but golly its fast. I took all of that stuff out (cabin & trunk) in a couple of hours. There were a couple of places where I got carried away and did minor sheet metal damage, but those were easy to fix. A couple of hits with the MIG and a bit of metal filled body filler made them disappear.

[hendrixvodu]

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i wouldnt get ride of it if you are planning on snow use...because i noticed every place bmw put it , is where the early models seemed to rust....and i noticed even at junk yards the ones with the dead shit in it dont have floor rust....



but thats my opinion

[robtech]

dry ice is the best method by far...get a big block of it...break it up into pieces and scatter it on your floor, let it chill for awhile then clear a space away and go to town with a hammer and chisel...it popped right off in my rx7 when i did it...havent done this to my e30 yet but it should be the same. by far the easiest CLEANEST way...the heatgun method makes a sticky mess

[whiltebeitel]

I did the heatgun method on an E46 M3, and the heatgun+100 degree heat = big suck. you have to go to town with the mineral sprits afterwards, but it's not hard, took me about 6-8 hours to go from full deadening to clean as a whistle.

[StereoInstaller1]

So no go on the forklift, huh?

[Firestorm]

Dry ice is too hard to get here unfortunately, so i'm going out to buy a heat gun now.

I'll pass on the forklift idea... :)