Factory glue removal?

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i removed the carpet on my 1981 Silverado, but there’s a lot of glue stuck to the floor board. I was thinking a heat gun and scraper tool. But I don’t want a fire starting either and this stuff is pretty thick it’ll take forever. Is there a better way?
 

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You can try an auto body eraser wheel, it just attaches into the chuck of a drill and you just go to town on it. I've used mine on 3m adhesive strips and whatnot and it works great.

Don't know how it'll work on the crap on the floor as it's pretty stout stuff, but I'd imagine it works fine. Otherwise you'll be scratching paint on your floor
 
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Glue?
I just removed some of the factory insulation from the 86 and it is not glued down.
It was “stuck” though in areas that had gotten wet before.
I scraped it with a scraper and hit it with the sander.
Solvents, heat and scrape, eraser wheel (slow and not cheap unless you’re preserving the surface) or sand/abrasive wheel are all possible methods.
 

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Is it glue or the tar stuff? If it's the tar stuff, get it cold with bags of ice. It chips out pretty easy and doesn't make as much of a mess.
 

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Is it glue or the tar stuff? If it's the tar stuff, get it cold with bags of ice. It chips out pretty easy and doesn't make as much of a mess.
It’s tar stuff, thanks for the tip. It’s mostly under the drivers side floorboard where your feet are.
 

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It’s tar stuff, thanks for the tip. It’s mostly under the drivers side floorboard where your feet are.
Mine had a plastic very hard black tar type material. No way was it coming out by just scraping. I heated it up with a plumbers torch and scraped in out.


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