So I found this filling my quarter panel:
(http://i43.tinypic.com/ev26f6.jpg)
Then discovered it goes all the way through the right side of my headliner. Seems to be made from the headliner padding, plus a ton of rat turds. It'll be fun ripping out the headliner and cleaning that...
Oh no! Darn rats! I hope you can clean it without pulling too much apart. I don't envy you. :-\
Well I got the quarter panel cleared out. I think I'm just going to rip the headliner out and toss it. It's got about 5 tears in it, although they'd be patchable and it hasn't sagged at all. I don't think I can pull it out without ruining it though, right?
Maybe use one or more of those tears and gently use a vacuum hose (from a small shop vac) and snake the hose and zoop stuff out then patch your holes. That's what I would do, because I know what a pain in the arse installing a headliner in a Pinto can be. :o
Regardless I'll have to tear it out to reinsulate it. There's nothing in the center, haha.
Check every where in the interior.I pulled out 13 different mouse nest in the 74 i had.I spent lots of money trying to get the smell out also,never did get all the smell out.So good luck.
If you take the headliner out take some good pitcures the Ford Book is not all that great.
At least you are only cleaning one interior. I had about five pretty much complete interiors stashed on shelves in the back room of my garage. They got into that and I had to tear almost everything in the room out to get rid of the smell.
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