Project Junkyard Dog

[Tom keedle]

Originally Posted by Joe Toller

Thanks. The smell was a pain, and will always be there short of replacing everything, which defeated the purpose.

I decided not to build mine as a 75, for the AFHS reason, I figured that would be the one everyone builds. Hopefully mine gets left alone...

throw a bunch of dryer sheets in it and change 'em out every couple of weeks...

[Joe Toller]

Oh I did, I even stripped the interior, shampooed it, and scrubbed the shell with water and bleach. The mouse piss just soaked in that bad

[Tom keedle]

Originally Posted by Joe Toller

Oh I did, I even stripped the interior, shampooed it, and scrubbed the shell with water and bleach. The mouse piss just soaked in that bad

febreeze has worked well for me too.
haven't tried the unscented stuff yet...

[Doug Domm]

A negative ion generator (ozonater) WILL do the trick. I have rescued several with them. Smells like an electrical storm has just passed over when done, rather fresh smelling. The mouse smell never returned even on the hottest days with windows closed. Some water treatment plants even use negative ions. It will neutralize bacteria. Hotels use them to turn smoking rooms into non smoking rooms. One word of caution is I've found some rubber trim items such as Hurst shifter boots tend to deteriorate from this. You may want to read up on negative ions first as my disclaimer.

[Joe Toller]

Good to know in the future. The car is long gone now though. The Comet is clean as can be fortunately.

[Bench Racer]

Try using a bag of new charcoal briquetts (not the matchlite stuff) in aluminum roasting pans along with several boxes of baking soda. Used this in an old camper that a mouse or too had used over the winter and it helped absorb a lot of the odor.

[Joe Toller]

Quick update: it's cold, snowy, and it sucks!!! I haven't had a good day to work on the car since last time, and we have more snow and -20 (straight) temps for the weekend. I can't even get motivated at this point, I am so discouraged by the nasty weather. The build plan is still in place, although I did go ahead and call Comp about a cam. My home track has a test and tune weekend the week before the Divisional, so June 14th is my target to be on track, unless it's still freezing or the weight of the snow collapses my carport and crushes the car lol...