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Old Aug 26, 2011 | 08:37 AM
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i had my '78 undercoated in 1980, as it was the thing to do. the car has never been in the snow and only in the rain a few times and always dry garage kept. the undercoating is starting to flake / peel off in a couple of spots on the frame rails. there seems to be some very light surface rust under the coating where is has peeled. any ideas on a painless / easy (just kidding) way to remove all of from the frame? I'm not too worried about the coating on the underneath of the floor pans or cross members.

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Old Aug 26, 2011 | 09:16 AM
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Putty knife and a heat gun.

Personally, unless it's some NCRS show car, I'd just scrape the loose stuff and reshoot it with some good rubberized coating from Autozone.
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Old Aug 26, 2011 | 09:50 AM
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Originally Posted by blckslvr79
Putty knife and a heat gun.

Personally, unless it's some NCRS show car, I'd just scrape the loose stuff and reshoot it with some good rubberized coating from Autozone.
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Old Aug 26, 2011 | 11:39 AM
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Ditto on the heat gun and scraper. Get a stiff one and have at it. Harbor Freight had both.

I did this on the wiper/cowl area and it was just the ticket. Came up like peanut butter.
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Old Aug 26, 2011 | 03:52 PM
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If its that silver type undercoating, leave it alone. You will have many many hours into getting it off. My car had it on the entire front underbody and wheel wells and took hours to get off. I would leave it alone on a driver.
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