Restoring a Flood Damaged Porsche 968: Removing a rusted, frozen in position seat

In this series I will document the journey of me restoring my flood damaged Porsche 968. In this episode I remove the the frozen and rusted in position driver seat. I also make a start at removing the remaining carpets.
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[@Porschee944]

Good work

[@jamespalmer343]

Great video, FYI my 94 968 cab and my 91 944 cab, neither had that yellow sponge behind the rear panels

[@GarageBiljon]

Thanks James, I think this was a home remedy, but I can't figure out what it was supposed to remedy.

[@jeffreyfoster4260]

Much Respect my Friend, LOVE YOUR CONTENT!!!!

[@Seagrams]

what a crazy fight just to get the seat out. Best of luck with the cleanup

[@GarageBiljon]

Thanks, this is quite a challenging project but hopefully the reward will be good 😀

[@chrismadge7292]

Epic work, but it will be worth it in the end.

[@GarageBiljon]

I have thought on multiple occasions that I have maybe bitten off more than I can chew. But I think I am starting to win 😅

[@mandymcgill9503]

Welldone my friend now that was hard work I love u need to go and get cool beer ... I clean the glue of with asidtone or petrol on myone ..great video again

[@GarageBiljon]

Thanks you Mandy, acetone is a good one, I have some in my garage. I am first trying some WD40 overnight, but I think acetone might be a good product to do the details with.

[@8359s]

Dry ice would be best in your scenario I believe, far safer, far easier to use, but far more expensive. Check it out.

[@GarageBiljon]

Thanks for the tip Robert! I can drop the carpets with a specialist to have the blasted, but the car is going to be a challenge...but maybe I can find a mobile unit.

[@autobreza7131]

As Robert suggested test a small are with crushed dry ice. This isn’t the blasting method. You spread a layer of crushed dry ice over the material to be removed. This “freezes” it to a brittle state (in a few minutes) which is easily broken up and removed. This is how racers remove the insulation glued to the floor pans (there are videos on TH-cam). Not sure this will work on the adhesive Porsche used but worth a try.
If it works you’ll save a lot of time and mess. (Do this with the garage door open please!)

[@jeffhammond8969]

Jon, you might try using chunks of dry ice to freeze the glue and then chip off with various size paint scrapers

[@GarageBiljon]

Thanks Jeff, I have spayed some WD40 on it overnight to see if it softens the glue. I'll report back with my findingd

[@jeffhammond8969]

@@GarageBiljon I'm guessing that the WD-40 will probably not get you the results you want, but it will be interesting to see. Whatever the solution ends up being out will be information that I can file away for whenever I get my 944 restoration started.