Does anyone have any tried and true ways of getting motor oil out of carpet mats? We recently bought a 57. I had noticed the mat on the driver side looked dirty, but didn't think much of it. Now that we've had it and have driven it a couple times, we figured out the after market oil pressure gauge under the dash is leaking and what I thought was just dirt is really motor oil. The mat is red with the old Ford crest embroidered on it. I was thinking about trying Dawn dish soap since it was what worked on the jeans we were wearing when we drove it...lol. I'm not sure regular carpet cleaner will do the trick.
Thoughts?
Dish soap is usually a safe method, it works well on oil soaked birds :003: I use it all the time.
When I saw the heading of this post, my first thought was, "my wife won't let me bring a motor into the house". Perspective is everything!
I too would try dish soap. If it is one of those little throw type mats, I'd lay it out and use waterless hand cleaner on it then dish soap and finally hose it all out. Then again, I screw up a lot.
I used Dawn on two baby wrens that got into a drain pan with 4speed gear oil. It worked on them.
You wouldn't believe the things that have gone through the washer and oven when the wife wasn't home :003:
I cleaned carpets with Simple Green
Simple Green gets my vote.
They used it on the beaches when the Exxon Valdez spewed oil on the Alaska shoreline.
T
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My go to is Awesome Cleaner. It's a citrus based concentrated cleaner just like Simple Green. It's sold at the 99 cent store. I buy it in gallons, and have three spray bottles mixed with different concentrations (by the shade of the yellow color). I spray that stuff on everything, wash it off, it works. It's cheap!
John
Quote from: hiball3985 on 2021-01-27 17:11
You wouldn't believe the things that have gone through the washer and oven when the wife wasn't home :003:
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Quote from: John Palmer on 2021-01-27 22:22
My go to is Awesome Cleaner. It's a citrus based concentrated cleaner just like Simple Green. It's sold at the 99 cent store. I buy it in gallons, and have three spray bottles mixed with different concentrations (by the shade of the yellow color). I spray that stuff on everything, wash it off, it works. It's cheap!
John
I used probably a 50 gallon drum of that stuff when I bought my apartment building in Branson area. It is some crazy good stuff! Dollar General has it too.
Yes, that "LA`s Awesome" cleaner is great stuff. I just used it to clean up 60 years of crud from the inside and outside of my 59s heater box. I know they recommend diluting it, but since I had a full bottle, I just used it at 100%. I have not tried it on oil soaked fabric yet, anybody try it on stains from clothing?
Have used Dawn for oil on the living room carpet ( slight spill while assembling a Boss 302 ) and had excellent results. Used it to clean blood off a perfect set of seats out of a late model Mustang for the 66 Ranchero. Took several washy, washy, rinsey, rinsey runs but they came clean.
House hold appliances do a nice job on lots of stuff! The dish washer will clean a disassembled carburetor perfect. It looks like it is almost brand new, just don't leave the parts in there very long. A bath tub is the perfect place to wash out an engine block after de-burring, yup, same Boss engine. Last but not least make sure you can open the house and ventilate it well after using the oven to back-in exhaust manifolds after applying ceramic paint.......
QuoteWhen I saw the heading of this post, my first thought was, "my wife won't let me bring a motor into the house". Perspective is everything!
When I was young ... bawl
I came in from work one afternoon and my younger brother had a complete 428PI sitting on a stand in the bedroom. This was a hi-rise apt building.
When I was young..................I could still get up off of the creeper.
Maybe it was because in the old days we just dropped the T-10's, and Top Loaders on our stomach's while laying on a creeper.
John
Quote from: John Palmer on 2021-01-29 13:16
When I was young..................I could still get up off of the creeper.
Maybe it was because in the old days we just dropped the T-10's, and Top Loaders on our stomach's while laying on a creeper.
John
I remember those days. A few years ago I tried to put in the T85, guess how that went :005:
Quote from: John Palmer on 2021-01-29 13:16
When I was young..................I could still get up off of the creeper.
Maybe it was because in the old days we just dropped the T-10's, and Top Loaders on our stomach's while laying on a creeper.
John
When I was young and bullet proof.....Those were the days! When building my street rod in 1976 all I had was jack stands and a small floor jack from Sears, no creeper. The FMX for the car had to go in. It was up on the stands, I slid under, pulled the FMX toward my chest, slid it up and bench pressed that bad boy up in place. Today 9" pumpkin requires my big floor jack and an adapter I made to hold the pumpkin while raising it up, FE manifolds get set with a hoist and I sit on the floor and use my legs to lift the tires in place. Yup, those were the days!
When I was young I could grab an FE block in one hand and walk across the garage floor with it. Now...I set it on a dolly and roll it across. My 27 year old son can pick up a rear end with the slug still in it and walk across the room with it. A bit of chore but he did it!
I am jealous!!!
Try good old mechanics hand cleaner. The lanoline helps in getting the grease out, even in fabric. And then hitting them with car wash wand.
The older I get the more machines I buy to lift, push, drag and jerk.
Ron.
Quote from: fdlrc on 2021-02-02 13:35
Try good old mechanics hand cleaner. The lanoline helps in getting the grease out, even in fabric. And then hitting them with car wash wand.
I have used hand cleaner to get stains out of carpet
I finally got around to attacking the carpet. Unfortunately I had a lot of extra time on my hands because my son tested positive for Covid (in hindsight, we're pretty sure what my husband, daughter and I thought was allergies a week or two before was really Covid). Needless to say, all four in my house were on quarantine. To pass the time one day, we decided to take the 57 out for a cruise. Bad idea. She died on us and we had to call a tow truck. I think it's the first time my husband has EVER not been able to fix a car on the side of the road. He is pretty sure the MSD knockoff is the culprit. All I know is he made some expensive purchases from Summit last night.
I diluted a little Dawn with water and that barely faded it. Next I tried some Simple Green. I think that faded it a little more. Then I used straight Dawn and really scrubbed it with my fingertips. I didn't want to use a brush or anything and risk fuzzing it up. You can still see the stain, but you really have to look for it. I had the mat hanging over a sawhorse drying in the sun and my neighbor who works at a dealership (with a bow tie, but I'll try not to use that against him) gave me a can of Technician's Choice Work Horse (TEC 99410). He said that is what they use at the dealership and a technician accidentally gets something on carpeting. A quick Google search of this stuff does not bring up any reviews that I can see, so I'm hesitant to see if it will take the last of the oil out. I may just spot test it on a corner first. Stay tuned...