getting out the sound deadener

[91Saleen#15]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_gKZus4LLA

I waited for a cold night.

[lolcantturn]

haha brilliant. I need to take mine out as well. How much does that stuff weigh anyway?

[MattM]

ahaha, i must have been lucky, i just grabbed mine and pulled it out, it came out in one big sheet... no fight no mess

[StereoInstaller1]

I bet I have pulled that crap out of 25 cars by now...my boxes don't fit with it in.

First: guys, this is NOT sound deadner. It is a ballast, intended to help achieve the legendary BMW front/rear weight balance. You may have noticed it really doesn't do shit as far as sound reduction, right? I mean yeah, it does a little, but hardly nothing.

Have you ever seen BMW do anything that ineffective? It weighs about 57 pounds.

I have done them using dry ice, heat guns, air hammers hammer and chisel...you name it I have tried it. I think this guys idea of frozen + air hammer is the winner, unless you get very lucky and have it simply pull up, which has happened only once for me.

[browntown]

dry ice is the shiznit,

break it up, spread it out, cover in towel, wait twenty minutes, smack it with a mallet

heat gun leaves a gooey mess, and I burn't my hand doing it that way.

[Raxe]

Why would I want to remove the weight directly over the back wheels? :s

[charlescho]

Why would I want to remove the weight directly over the back wheels? :s

to put a lukebox in :giggle:

[lolcantturn]

Why would I want to remove the weight directly over the back wheels? :s

So you can remove the same amount of weight over the front wheels :giggle:

[Jparkr]

Thats a great way to do it if you dont give a shit about the paint.

I take 3 flood lamps and a meat thermometer put it all in the trunk. Wait till the ambient temp is about 220f put on gloves, peel that shit right out of there.

takes about 20 minutes, 5 or less of it is actual work.

[browntown]

^^ depends on the car, every car I can think of off hand was primer under the trunk tar because they sprayed the body color over the tar. If memory serves bronzit tar was the most difficult.

[lolcantturn]

If memory serves bronzit tar was the most difficult.

Well then I'm not looking forward to removing my tar :-?
Should I leave the trunk ajar over a real cold night (About 15*F) and just manual hammer and chisel it?

[browntown]

no - use dry ice. I tried the above and put a cold chisel right through the floor of my trunk. No sharp objects next to thin steel.

[StereoInstaller1]

I would smack it firmly with a hammer if it is 15 degrees out. I bet it shatters into big chunks and falls out nicely.

[davem]

Most of mine came out quite easily, the adhesive was starting to stop working. I used a screwdriver & rubber mallet to get the rest out.

[JJe30]

Mine came out in one piece. Just grabbed it and it all pulled out.