Finally plucked up the courage to tackle a really grotty and messy job tonight as I'm running out of pre MOT inspection jobs to do.
Tonight, I cleaned the floor pan!
It was the last area I'd not really had a look at, so it was nice to see that it was as solid and original as the rest of the car.
To make life a bit easier, I jacked up the front end to give me a little more room to manouver underneath.
I used a pneumatic plant sprayer to liberally apply almost a gallon of jet fuel to the underside, then gritted my teeth and armed with an assortment of stiff brushes, slid under and scrubbed for all I was worth.
It was a pretty miserable experience I can tell you, as not only was the smell pretty awful, but I was getting rained on with jet fuel, the brushes were spraying me in the face all the time with dirty, gritty paste whilst rolling around in an ever deepening pool of gunk.
Once I'd removed all the solid matter which thankfully consisted mainly of dried on mud and farm dust, I resprayed it all again for a second time until the drips were coming off clean (all over me, again).
Satisfied that all the dirt had been removed, and to give a nice surface for the wax sealant to adhere to, I then filled the plant sprayer with IPA (isopropyl alcohol) then washed and scrubbed it all down again to leave a dry and grease free surface.
I managed to take a few pictures along the way during both stages, some wet with jet fuel and some with alcohol that is partially dried out.
The flash on the camera makes everything look much more orange than it really is - under the fine surface patina, the original black floor pan paint is all there, present and correct, which is a lovely sight...
Check out the heater channel bottoms!
Lots of black paint peeping through...
Not many original 54 year old battery trays look like this!
You can see the alcohol starting to dry out in this picture...
I'll leave it to thoroughly dry out, then tomorrow night I'll 'monsoon' it with several coats of sealing wax like the wheel arches etc.
When I got in the house, Mrs LT burst into fits of laughter at the sight of me.... messy job!
That is all for now!
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