welcome back guys to Stauffer Garage part two of the pontiac fiero project this one is going
to be a doozy because not only have I found mouse turds still remain and
inside the car so we still have mice in there but we're also going to go ahead
and find out what's underneath the engine bay for the first time today I
picked up a battery so we can power that power all the electronics inside the
dashboard inside the car figure out what's working because the main goal for
today is I want to rip everything out of the interior I want to pull it all out
find the mice nest mouse nest mice nests anyways
find the nest figure out where it is because I need to get them out of the
car before winter truly gets here I mean right now it's 34 degrees so it's a bit
chilly but I don't want to be getting any colder and I want to get the car
inside the garage so we can really get started on this project so if you guys
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all right here's the moment of truth let's see that's not promising this is
supposed to be the hood or at least solenoid right here it looks like we
have no power whatsoever
all right we're still not releasing all right don't be completely honest I have
no idea what to do now. I looked online they said drill it out that didn't work.
they also say bust open the taillights as a last resort. I just found a mouse.
the last thing that somebody mentioned was take a chainsaw to the rear decklid
I don't know what to do guys
that's actually the craziest thing those little guys right there are metal
inserts that clip in and there's a screw behind it but they're metal tabs whereas
today those would all the plastic push ins
you guys got to see this before I pull this out
alright guys so yesterday we left off with project Fiero and there was rain
coming in and it was getting really nasty so I had to stop but yesterday the
main goal was just to start figuring out where everything was and we definitely
figured that out we found all of the mice nests at least currently inside the
cabin bay I'm gonna start pulling out the panels today I want to get the
carpet ripped out but all the panels have to be literally sprayed down with
vinegar bleach or Lysol something to potentially worry about getting rid of
all the urine and poop and potentially the virus that mice can carry yeah that
kind of scares me but this is day 2 of the Fiero part 2 well I bought this bolt
set and I bought the wrong ones so I can't get the seat belt off so I can't
get these column pieces off because they wrap on the seat belts but to be honest
it ain't a bad thing because if you look at the seat belts I think that's the
mice that did that that's the only thing I can think of is they actually chewed
through the seat belts that stinks look like I'll be in this looking out for new
seat belts too so we're going to the store real quick let's go to the store
and let's go get some star bolts it's alright and we're back. Thank You autozone
for having the right bits in stock
it's crazy you can see here the insulation that's gone this is what the
mice have taken and chewed out right here as well to get to the to build a nest so
it just shows this thing had been sitting for a lot longer I think than
they said there's no way this thing had only been sitting for two years no
way no way here let me show you something you can
see here down in the bottom of the door they built the nest inside there as well
so this is a seat belt that have been chewed through alright now it's time to
get the headliner oh this is gonna be yucky
that's why I didn't go over there and do that ah dang it
hate when the glasses fog up especially in a car this nasty
that's typically what happens with headliners they're so brittle and thin
and this one in particular I mean it was already broken in several places but it
just literally falls out but to be honest the roof don't look too bad bare
like that either let's get this back piece out because
this is where the nest was the biggest one right there in the back one thing I
recommend that anybody does if they're even into cars at all or if they
don't just taking apart a car like it's such a cool learning experience to be
able to take a car apart and to work on it by just pulling everything out you
learn so much
so now that we've gotten to this point it's time to clean up the both sides
where I have all the bolts and everything and then get the carpet
pulled out and then start working on pulling out some more of the das especially
the HVAC system it's like the last piece cuz I got the mouse nests in the top but
probably down in the blower assembly is a whole bunch more so get that pulled
out and then we'll we'll go from there oh this is not good you guys guessed it
let me show you this one those were some of the carpet stains were coming from
it's a hole you got another hole down there it looks
like you got more rust more rust this is pretty rested but that's a big-ass hole
and then there's some rust up there from the mice but that's definitely where
they were coming in and over there
all right so driver-side carpets out and they still got one hole two hole and then
it's all rusted but it's not punch through yet
but that'll all have to be ripped out I mean you can see the mice where I've got
a nest in there too got a nest everywhere and the whole back side of
this as I messed up they're all inside there I have to find it and rip it out
so to be honest guys it's kind of to the point now where I'm questioning whether
or not project Fiero needs to be project scrapped if it's floorboards of that
rusty I'm concerned like the subframes and everything especially in the back
where the engine is because I mean I still haven't even gotten to the engine
bay yet to see how bad that engine bay is and see if that subframes completely
rusted through to because if it is I mean I can patch the floor in the
driver's side and the passenger's side and reweld in new metal pieces but if
the whole frame is rusted I mean it's just a matter of time that it falls
apart so