Substance on front floorboards

[pbrstreetgang]

Can anyone identify the substance that I can only describe as some kind of petroleum or oil based material on the front driver and passenger side floorboards?

I am going to strip all of the rust from the floor boards, patch the holes and lay down some rhino liner and I need help in removing this stuff. It is kind of stubborn, but then in other areas it is all bubble up.

 

[Numbers]

There are various substances to use on removing petroleum based substances to ensure proper adhesion. Try Eastwood for information on their products but try and use someone elses because Eastwood is expensive. Sorry but do not know for sure if some idiot used something really fun like roofing tar down there. If it's that then you have your work cut out for you.

Where at in KY are you ?

 

[papercu]

Driver side could be brake fluid, passenger side could be antifreeze or oil in cooling system. Wayne

 

[Nick Danger]

There is a plastic like undercoating on the floorboards from the factory which gets gooey
with contaminants over time

 

[kentuckycucv]

I am ripping out my floor mat and my insulation is very oily.... Im going to guess that it is Power steering fluid from my leaky Hydroboost.

 

[Bobert]

My heater core leaked and soaked the passenger side with antifreeze.

 

[niferous]

If it's a tar like substance they used a similar product in FJ60 Landcruisers (my other project). What the us wagon guys do is get some dry ice and press it against the stuff then smack it with a rubber mallet. This actually freezes the stuff and then breaks it apart. Then you just sweep it up off the floor and go on down the road.

 

[Mudstone]

my hydroboost is peeing fluid pretty much everywhere... however the fluid level is not substancialy decreasing... i think it just kindly mists the driver side wall of the engine bay and leaks a bit into the cab...