Need some help cleaning out my kicks

[michael bustamante]

Ok im staring on the cab and i got about 45 years if debris on the inside of my kick panals. Front clip is off so i cleaned the cowl aeea but cant get down to get all the leaves and gunk out behind the kick panals. Any ideas?

[Nitis]

Not an option for you but I drove mine with the vents open after I got all I could with a shop vac then the rest wound up on the floor board. Might want to wear some safety glasses if you chose my route

[JointTech]

i took my kickpanel air vent things off and then blew air up and down on both sides about 100 times with shop vac and the thin extension in between.

I suppose if you are feeling crazy you could cut out a hole in the side of the cowl to give yourself access and then weld in a patch. That area is covered by the fender so nobody but you would know.

[AirSpeed]

I blew mine out then shoved the water hose down under the cowl and blasted a lot more crap out with the water.

[michael bustamante]

Well its being torn down and rebuilt in my garage. Water,d pribably make a big mess for me. Ill do the air cimpressor idea and blow the hell out of my kickpanals
Nitis: thats how i cleaned out my 1st 67. I had leaves and mouse poop flying everywhere. Its was gross to put it mildly

[Kennuck]

Take the oval inside vent doors off and reach in there and pull it out.

[AirSpeed]

Originally Posted by michael bustamante

Well its being torn down and rebuilt in my garage. Water,d pribably make a big mess for me. Ill do the air cimpressor idea and blow the hell out of my kickpanals
Nitis: thats how i cleaned out my 1st 67. I had leaves and mouse poop flying everywhere. Its was gross to put it mildly

I blew air down both sides at every angle I could, thought it was clean until I shoved the water hose in there, I got at least twice more crap out with water. Might be worth it to roll it out far enough to let water drain outside.

[michael bustamante]

Where does the water come out from? The vent panals?

[69chevytrucker]

front bottom of firewall there is a opening on both sides of the truck you can blast water from the top of the cowl and in the vent holes and it will come out in the front bottom of the firewall

the piece there that is bulked out in front of the door pillar if you look on the bottom of that you will see a oval hole where all the crap from your vents will come out and what ever is in your cowl

[NC_John]

Leaf blower. Made a helluva mess but the cab was gutted anyway and it worked great.

[michael bustamante]

A leaf blower. My wife would kill me. Shes ocd clean and cant help but sweep my garage.
Ill push the truck out this weekrnd and flushout my panals and update yall

[NC_John]

Originally Posted by michael bustamante

A leaf blower. My wife would kill me. Shes ocd clean and cant help but sweep my garage.
Ill push the truck out this weekrnd and flushout my panals and update yall

Over here I'm the OCD one and the leaf blower was the wife's idea.

There was stuff in the bottom of the cowl through the kick panel vents that I could feel but not get out, hands, shop vac, water hose, nothing would work. The leaf blower worked awesome. I stuck it in both the cowl and into the kick panel vent openings. Then I washed all the silt and muck out with the water hose.

[michael bustamante]

Welp.. i got my weekend project. Im gonna do both the bloeer and the water hose. Then airdry with the compessor. Wish me luck

[67chevy1series]

Originally Posted by AirSpeed

I blew air down both sides at every angle I could, thought it was clean until I shoved the water hose in there, I got at least twice more crap out with water. Might be worth it to roll it out far enough to let water drain outside.

I did air and water and together they both equal the eyes and hands you can't put in there. Very effective!