Hemi2Much
Well-Known Member
I'm sure I'm not the first with this question or issue.
My 1966 Coronet had been sitting for 50 years collecting dirt and mouse poop.
As I was doing initial clean-up on the inside of the car, the further I dug into it the worse it got. There were mouse nests everywhere. My main issue is how to clean out the inside of the cowl area. There was a mouse nest up in the dash and that is what started the pulling of the dash apart. there was no heater box in the car so the cowl was open on the passenger side.
There was a vent box on the driver's side that was completely full of mouse nest.
I pulled the vent down and cleaned it out but as I stuck my hand up in the cowl area it was also full of everything from mouse nest to mouse poop and also dirt and grit that looked like shingle debris like you'd see in gutters. I have done everything from making a special bent tube hooked up to a shop vac to washing it out from the outside to washing it with a pressure washer to compressed air. I just can't see up inside the cowl area and I can only get my hand so far up in there. I'm afraid there might still be more debris in the cowl.
I even had a 2 Inch rubber hose that I taped up to my shop vac hose so I could bend it up into the crevises. That is how I cleaned out the bottom of the doors and the lower quarter panels inside the trunk. I just want to make sure I get that cowl area very clean.
Does anyone have any suggestions on a better way to clean it out?
Thanks, Jkent
My 1966 Coronet had been sitting for 50 years collecting dirt and mouse poop.
As I was doing initial clean-up on the inside of the car, the further I dug into it the worse it got. There were mouse nests everywhere. My main issue is how to clean out the inside of the cowl area. There was a mouse nest up in the dash and that is what started the pulling of the dash apart. there was no heater box in the car so the cowl was open on the passenger side.
There was a vent box on the driver's side that was completely full of mouse nest.
I pulled the vent down and cleaned it out but as I stuck my hand up in the cowl area it was also full of everything from mouse nest to mouse poop and also dirt and grit that looked like shingle debris like you'd see in gutters. I have done everything from making a special bent tube hooked up to a shop vac to washing it out from the outside to washing it with a pressure washer to compressed air. I just can't see up inside the cowl area and I can only get my hand so far up in there. I'm afraid there might still be more debris in the cowl.
I even had a 2 Inch rubber hose that I taped up to my shop vac hose so I could bend it up into the crevises. That is how I cleaned out the bottom of the doors and the lower quarter panels inside the trunk. I just want to make sure I get that cowl area very clean.
Does anyone have any suggestions on a better way to clean it out?
Thanks, Jkent