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davegt27

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Racing numbers removal

Anyone have any tips, my car has an 8 ball on the side that needs to go




David
 
A little heat helps soften the adhesive, borrow a hair drier and warm the decal up as you peel.
 
O'Reilly's still sells the 3m adhesive remover. It's a square red and white can.

Take your heat gun and get rid of as much of the vinyl as you can. Use the 3m stuff to remove the adhesive.
 
Cigarette lighter fluid works well removing adhesive residue without affecting paints or plastics. Some Wal-Marts still sell it.

WD-40 also works, but takes a little more effort.

RJS
 
Pull the decal back as close as you can to the surface and you will be less likely to pull up any paint.
 
blamkin86":1ae2mxdw said:
O'Reilly's still sells the 3m adhesive remover. It's a square red and white can. Take your heat gun and get rid of as much of the vinyl as you can. Use the 3m stuff to remove the adhesive.
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+1 for this process. The 3M adhesive remover is also handy for degreasing before paint or before gasket sealing.

Another handy tool is used for stripe removal in auto body repair. An Astro Smart Eraser can be used on a power drill or air tool. It has soft rubber that heats the decal with friction then peals it off. I found this works well for really sun baked decals it the heating and solvent isn't working well. The eraser is in the $20 range at auto body supply stores and you need a mandrel for the drill to screw the eraser pad into (an fairly standard item you may already have).

http://www.astrotools.com/default.aspx?toolsnum=400E&
 
I just did some of the same project.
Combination of Harbor Freight heat gun (#2 for me) and 3M Adhesive Remover.
Project 100% success.
 
It may not work on your particular vinyl adhesive, but I always found WD-40 to be an excellent remover of adhesives. It worked well on removing old duct tape/racers tape that I had forgotten to remove before leaving the car resting inside the trailer during the different seasons.

Heat gun the best to use, after first attempting to peel it off. As someone said earlier, lay the decal almost flat over itself before pulling it off, pulling almost horizontally to the surface. Heating as you pull it off. Pulling it vertically, straight up, only results in a lot of little vinyl pieces and paint pulled off the car.
 
I use (a lot) 3m #07498 strip off. It's like an erasor wheel that you put on a drill. It is much quicker and cleaner. It takes the decal and the glue off. When you are done just wipe it down with a little thinner.
 
What Charlie said..
When I bought the camper shell for my truck, it had a HUGE (18" x 48") 5-layer vinyl sticker of a slug and company logo on it. I started peeling it off by hand (with heat gun too) and it was coming off in fingernail size pieces. finally, it picked up on a chip or scratch or something and ripped about a 12"x12" patch of the clearcoat off. I called a friend and he brought over his 3M rubber wheel thingy and I did the other side of the camper in about 20 minutes and there wasn't a mark on it when we finished.

If you risk peeling the clear- or any layer of paint for that matter- off, I'd suggest paying the money for one of those little rubber guys. If you're confident the paint is well adhered, then go for the heat gun method..
 
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