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Old 03-23-04, 05:33 PM   #1 (permalink)
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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.
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Keep it covered with Corvettes and parts. Sorry...I couldn't resist.
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Old 03-23-04, 08:17 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Muriatic acid..... but be CAREFUL!! It's POTENT stuff!!
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Old 03-23-04, 10:35 PM   #4 (permalink)
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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.
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.
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Old 03-24-04, 06:29 AM   #5 (permalink)
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Spary brake clean on the spots wipe them up, then wash with dish wash soap and warm water it works great.
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Old 03-24-04, 08:15 PM   #6 (permalink)
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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.
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I haven't tried this but I've been told that WD40 does wonders on garage floors.

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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
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the guy that owns the ford has a spotless garage because the car is always down at the Ford dealership....
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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
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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...
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Why would you join a corvette forum and then bad mouth vettes? Sheesh......some peoples kids !!!
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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.
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