WOOD GRAIN

[Tourettes]

What is the best method to removing the woodgrain stickers from my vehicles?
Is there any need for adheasive releasing chemicals?
Also I wont be needing the psudo wood trim in the near future,its all in great condition anyone interested?

[RamJetFSJ]

I used an adhesive eraser from Eastwood (they attach to a drill, sorta like a wire brush), and they work really good and take it off without hurting the paint. But they are like 12 bucks a piece and it took me just over 2 to do one side and I only have the small 6" strip of wood. Plus it takes along time, especially with a air drill and a not so big compressor. So its not that good of a alternative to those with the big wood.

[Jambo1]

Do a search on it..... I remember reading here somewhere that a heat gun works real well. It is suppose to peel off real easy(o.k. maybe not real easy, but easy enough!)after being heated up....

Good luck :D

[Jambo1]

Here you go!

Removing Fake Woodgrain Decal
Contributed By: Adam Zeimet

If you need to remove the fake woodgrain from you Wagoneer or Grand Wagoneer for painting or any other reason. This is how I did it fairly quickly and painlessly. This works best in the summer on a hot day. Use a hair dryer (or a space heater as an anonymous person mentioned to me via email) and heat a section of the decal until it is pretty hot to the touch, but be careful not to burn yourself!! This will melt the glue behind the decal and it becomes easy (easier) to peel off in strips. Thats all there is to it!

[Skyjacker88]

How long do you figure it will take to remove the woodgrain using Adams technique?

What about the molding surrounding the woodgrain? How much would be involved in removing that?

[Stolen76]

Scraped mine off with a razor blade. Took 2 hours to do the whole truck, then took glue off with acetone. If you live anywhere near a Graeat Dane Trailer dealer, go grab a couple of cans of decal remover (their brand) take it to a car wash, spray the stuff on, wait 5 minutes and then pressure wash it off. It really does work that easy.

[Slippery]

Originally posted by Skyjacker88:
What about the molding surrounding the woodgrain? How much would be involved in removing that?I've found that if you leave it sitting along a fencerow for 3 or 4 years, they'll fall off by themselves (see avatar).

[wanablikemike]

I was in the Napa parts store yesterday and saw a "woodgrain remover" spray. The pic on the can showed a guy taking the woodgrain off of a Wag. I've never used it but you might want to try to locate some of that stuff.

[Ernzo]

The heat gun is it for the grain. The wood strips can use acetone. Heat REALLY works and it is easy.

[BHT]

I used Adam's method with the hair dryer. Then I used the vinyl eraser to take off the remaining glue. My compressor couldn't keep up with the die grinder, so I used a 3/8" drill instead. I bought the eraser from Eastwood.

[Rusty84]

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[Tourettes]

wow thanks to all for the great advice! :cool:
I'm gonna runout,get some acetone, and put the heatgun on it :eek: :D J/K

[sailingjeep]

Mine was baked on and the heat gun didn't do squat for me! The only thing that is somewhat decent are the smart erasers in the drill. They are about $14 a piece where I am buying them. I'm not done yet. Taking it a little at a time and I figure I'll have $75 in the rubber pads. They are doing absolutely no damage to the paint underneath. I even used them to buff out my chrome door handles.

[Tourettes]

i just put my little crackpipe type butane torch on what looked like the worst baked on parts. It peeled off like panties on prom nite!
Thanks for the tip!
Oh, does autopart stores rent heat guns??

[RSW]

Also I wont be needing the psudo wood trim in the near future,its all in great condition anyone interested?
I'm interested. Contact me at:
rsw@environeticsinc.com