Clean Garage Floor

[attret00]

How do you clean your garage floor. I have some old spills and a couple of new ones. I heard to use trisodium-phosphate. I put 3/4 cup in 2 gal hot water and brushed it with a stiff brush. It still looks like I never touched it. Any suggestions? Thanks again.:confused

 

[maxphunn]

Keep it covered with Corvettes and parts. Sorry...I couldn't resist.

 

[SeaLawyer]

Muriatic acid..... but be CAREFUL!! It's POTENT stuff!!

 

[IH2LOSE]

How do you clean your garage floor. I have some old spills and a couple of new ones. I heard to use trisodium-phosphate. I put 3/4 cup in 2 gal hot water and brushed it with a stiff brush. It still looks like I never touched it. Any suggestions? Thanks again.:confused

As a kid when I used to make a mess of the driveway or the garage floor.My dad gave me 2 bricks and a bag of speedy dry and I used to have to rub the speedy dry into the surface and then sweep it up.I still do it today and it works great.

 

[vette]

clean floor

Spary brake clean on the spots wipe them up, then wash with dish wash soap and warm water it works great.

 

[studiog]

Here are my home brewed recipies:

I've had good luck using Tide liquid laundry detergent with a little water mixed in and a scrub brush. You have to rinse it off throughly with a hose.

For small drips here and there I also use MEK (methel ethel Ketone I believe) a strong solvent and soak a rag with it and scrub the oil stain. Don't breathe the vapors. You can find MEK at paint/ hardware stores.
Good luck.

 

[RonS95]

I haven't tried this but I've been told that WD40 does wonders on garage floors.

Ron

 

[TSabr88]

step 1:clean the floor. step 2: then to keep it clean sell all chevys and chevy parts. step 3: buy a Ford. i know a guy who's garage is spotless and he owns nothing but Fords

 

[vetzs]

the guy that owns the ford has a spotless garage because the car is always down at the Ford dealership....

 

[TSabr88]

every car we have owned we have never taken to the dealership. unless its still covered under warrenty. and of the Fords i dont recall any of them needing to go back. and the only work done to them was routine maintainence. and the only reason a Ford sat in our garage for about 6 years was because we kept the miles down on it and it was worth it. 3 weeks after we got the vette the motor was scattered in parts across the garage floor. why? because the POS chevy motor blew up! which when we do get the orig. 350 rebuilt and put back in, if it blows up again we are putting either a Hi-po 289 in or a Boss 302 and converting it to a manual tranny. that is if we dont sell the POS first

 

[Sting Ray]

Mellow , I think it was a joke.



Tom

 

[studiog]

every car we have owned we have never taken to the dealership. unless its still covered under warrenty. and of the Fords i dont recall any of them needing to go back. and the only work done to them was routine maintainence. and the only reason a Ford sat in our garage for about 6 years was because we kept the miles down on it and it was worth it. 3 weeks after we got the vette the motor was scattered in parts across the garage floor. why? because the POS chevy motor blew up! which when we do get the orig. 350 rebuilt and put back in, if it blows up again we are putting either a Hi-po 289 in or a Boss 302 and converting it to a manual tranny. that is if we dont sell the POS first

Sounds like maybe you should sell it now if you are that unhappy with it. It's probably worth more with no motor than with a Ford motor in it though...

 

[XJ6GUY]

carefull.....its the not the Found On Road Dead forum

 

[reefdiver]

Why would you join a corvette forum and then bad mouth vettes? :confused Sheesh......some peoples kids !!! :eyerole

 

[Sams '66]

every car we have owned we have never taken to the dealership. unless its still covered under warrenty. and of the Fords i dont recall any of them needing to go back. and the only work done to them was routine maintainence. and the only reason a Ford sat in our garage for about 6 years was because we kept the miles down on it and it was worth it. 3 weeks after we got the vette the motor was scattered in parts across the garage floor. why? because the POS chevy motor blew up! which when we do get the orig. 350 rebuilt and put back in, if it blows up again we are putting either a Hi-po 289 in or a Boss 302 and converting it to a manual tranny. that is if we dont sell the POS first

I have a GREAT IDEA! Sell the Vette to someone who really likes them........and keep your Fords in your nice clean garage.

 

[TSabr88]

that is a good idea to keep the Fords in the garage. the vette will be going up for sale in not too much longer. oh and BTW we have a 79 Trans Am which is twice the car the vette is in every area. that vette makes anyone who drives it nervous at about 40MPH it shakes...at 70MPH in a curve i think i would of killed myself if i hadn't let off.

 

[Neal]

that is a good idea to keep the Fords in the garage. the vette will be going up for sale in not too much longer. oh and BTW we have a 79 Trans Am which is twice the car the vette is in every area. that vette makes anyone who drives it nervous at about 40MPH it shakes...at 70MPH in a curve i think i would of killed myself if i hadn't let off.

Can't speak much about '79 Corvette's like the one you own (this is the forum for C1s), but if I had a car that had a vibration problem at 40mph, I'd start trying to find and fix the problem rather than just complain about it. Is the shaking from the front (tire balance), from the rear (driveshaft) or all over (suspension)? No vehicle is fun if it doesn't perform right, but if it shakes at 40mph, why in the world would you go 70mph? Perhaps that explains why the motor went south???

 

[attret00]

I don't know if anyone cares after all this negitive Corvette stuff but it took 3 gal. of muratic acid and my floor is spotless. Now to paint it. Thanks for the CLEANING info.

 

[TSabr88]

well i took it up to 70 before it had the problem. it was still twitchy as hell but more controllable. we had a front and rear end alignment done to it in Nov. but it didn't help any at all all the bushings and ball joints and everything are brand new. the problem seems like it got worse with 275tires on the rear so i'm thinking its more in the rear than anything. if i could get this problems fixxed it might be fun to drive again. but as of now its nervous wreck.

 

[bossvette]

that is a good idea to keep the Fords in the garage. the vette will be going up for sale in not too much longer. oh and BTW we have a 79 Trans Am which is twice the car the vette is in every area. that vette makes anyone who drives it nervous at about 40MPH it shakes...at 70MPH in a curve i think i would of killed myself if i hadn't let off.

sounds like you need a good 4 wheel alignment and wheel balance from someone who knows Vettes, they are harder to set up properly. I have 275's on the back and after doing the bushings,bearings etc the week before I took it to the alignment shop was a little hairy and the day it rained was down right scary. Now with proper alignment it feels best at 80 and doesnt get twitchy till 110 or so (a set of Pace car spoilers will fix that)
I will try some of these sugestions for my garage floor as mine tends to mark its territory like a big junkyard Dog
Craig sr.