Moving to the front area now. The tar pad on the floor boards was honestly the easiest part of the entire project for me. Again, I got lucky. I've seem a couple other people have it chip up easily like this. No clue why, but I was happy.
The middle console came out without too much trouble. Probably an hour to get it totally removed. I was extra careful with the white capillary tube for the AC.
Next step was to get all the tar off the floor.
Floor sound pad removed, but there was tons of grime left on the floor. I decided to paint the interior around this point so I spent a good 5-10 hours scrubbing off the grime and cleaning the floor before I brushed it with Rustoleum clean metal primer and paint. It was clean enough to sit on in dress slacks before I painted - pic down below.
Odorless mineral spirits are, in fact, not odorless. Wear a respirator (I should have). Also, I poked a small hole in my thumb when I hit a screw while scrubbing with a scotch brite pad and got mineral spirits in it. That hurt BAD. Wear latex gloves and replace them when they rip. My thumb throbbed for 2 days and didn't stop hurting for over a week.
Passenger side done. I found that a lot of mineral spirits and scotch brite pads worked well to get the grime off the floor, then wipe up with shop paper towels. You will still need a lot of elbow grease.
Floor pretty much clean at this point. After the mineral spirits, I used Marine Clean to degrease and clean up before paint. It worked well.
Removing the pedal assembly was a major PITA, but worth it. More on that below.
Definitely looking better after a bunch of Marine Clean and paper towels.
