By Dean Brown (Deanbrown3d) on Sunday, December 02, 2001 - 08:43 pm: Edit

If I leave my engine running all night with the heater blowing down full blast, is this a problem with anything - like overheating the engine? Can you idle continuously for such long periods?

By cartner on Sunday, December 02, 2001 - 08:45 pm: Edit

don't do it in your garage.
I wouldn't leave it running. Get a fan or a dehumidifier and leave it in the garage or in the back load space to dry. I would not run the engine at idle like that.

By Dean Brown (Deanbrown3d) on Sunday, December 02, 2001 - 08:50 pm: Edit

Its outside, under a canopy.

By cartner on Sunday, December 02, 2001 - 10:25 pm: Edit

put a dehumidifier in the back, run a cord to the house. seal her up, and turn it on, and forget about it for the night. thats what I'd do, or just use shop vac to get as much water out first, then dehumidifier. Nice and clean and painless.

By Dean Brown (Deanbrown3d) on Monday, December 03, 2001 - 08:33 am: Edit

Cartner,

Thanks for the advice. I ran the engine till midnight, and all was fine, no difference in gas level either. With the heaters on full and pointing down, the front carpets are bone dry, and the back ones wet only righ at the edge. Will be ok today I think. (My dehumidifier is too frigging big and heavy to move it from the basement to out there!)

Dean

By cartner on Monday, December 03, 2001 - 11:20 am: Edit

cool. Glad you didn't just leave the truck running and gone to bed....they do dry out fairly quickly I think, mined dried out in a day in the front without the shop vac treatment.

By John Kruger on Monday, December 03, 2001 - 11:36 am: Edit

The carpet may be dry, but you probably have a great deal of moisture in the pad under the carpet. In my 94 and 97 Discos, this stuff acted like a sponge.

Pull the carpet and look, if you still have a lot of moisture, use a dehumidifier like cartner suggested.

John

By SOLO on Monday, December 03, 2001 - 01:38 pm: Edit

Dean

Clean those carpets well or the mildew smell will drive you crazy. When you pull those carpets up you might find enough mud to drive a toy Rover through LOL.
It looked like you guys had a lot of fun Sunday I wish I was there.

Larry

By Dean Brown (Deanbrown3d) on Monday, December 03, 2001 - 07:19 pm: Edit

I'm gonna put the dehumider in now.

But I was thinking, you know that cool silicone spray to waterproof carpets and shoes, would this be a good idea on the rover's carpets, or would it just go and seal the water underneath if it got in again? Any thoughts on that?

Dean

By Bluegill (Bluegill) on Monday, December 03, 2001 - 07:21 pm: Edit

water will always find it's way in/under the carpet. If you just can't resist the mud, then you could always yank the carpet & padding and put in hydrophic sound deadening & floor covering (rubber "carpet"). A few well-place drain holes with rubber plugs and you're in business...

By Mud Man (Clarance) on Monday, December 03, 2001 - 07:29 pm: Edit

Damn, i forgot i need to dry out my carpet.

By cartner on Monday, December 03, 2001 - 07:49 pm: Edit

Has anyone taken their carpet all out? How does that look? photos? I wanna know how hard it is to put that crap back in if I ever (probably not) resell the Disco....

By Mike B. on Monday, December 03, 2001 - 08:12 pm: Edit

I have taken my carpets out several times of my D1. I live in Florida, so deep water is always a risk. It is really an easy job and it goes very quickly. Here are the instructions:

1. Remove all of the screws in the black trim pieces all the way around (one in each footwell and one in the back).
2. Remove all black trim pieces. They pull straight up.
3. Remove the cargo panels (panels below the rear windows on each side). The panels will bow out slightly and give you enough room to remove them.
3. Remove the screws holding down the rear seats. There are two hold downs for each seat with 2 screws for each hold down. The ones under the seat are easy to spot. The ones in front of the seat are hidden. Look for the small slits in the carpet.
4. Remove the rear seats. They will just lift out.
5. Starting in the back, remove the carpet and the pad from the cargo area. The carpet and pad will be in two different pieces.
6. Remove the carpet for the rear seats. The pad will be glued to the carpet here.
7. Now comes the more difficult stuff, so take a break. Elapsed time so far 15 minutes.
8. Remove the screws for the base of your front seats.
9. Look for a single plastic screw (size of a quarter) up near the tunnel. Unscrew it. It will only be finger tight.
10. Gently pull the carpet up starting at the footwell for the front seat. Slide the carpet otu from under the seat.
11. Slide the carpet out from under the kick panel in front of the door.
12. Pull up the pad. It should not be stuck to the floor. Look for any wires under the carpet and/or the pad. There should be some on the passenger side, but none on the Driver's side.
13. Lay the carpet back down. Using a utility knife or similar, gently cut the carpet pad (not the carpet) about 2" to 4" up the tunnel.
14. Remove the carpet pad from under the carpet.
15. Dry out the floor, inspect for rust, and lay the carpet back down.
16. Remove the carpet pad and let it dry.
17. You will be able to drive your Disco while the carpet pad dries out.
18. Repeat the process for the passenger side.
19. Be careful not to cut any of the wires laying at the base of the center tunnel.
20. When the carpet pads have dried completely, resintall.
21. Start by reinnstalling the carpet pad. Use Duct Tape to attach the two pieces of carpet pad together. Be sure to get a good seal.
22. The rest fo the re-installation process is pretty much the reversal of the removal.

Best of luck!
The good news is the second time you do this it will go much quicker.

Email me if you have more questions.

Thanks,
Mike B.

By cartner on Monday, December 03, 2001 - 11:34 pm: Edit

anyone leave the carpets out and go with rubber mats instead? does this look decent? or just "hey, I stripped my carpet out". I mean, with rubber mats, is it incredibly uncomfortable? or just jeeplike? dare I ask..

By StoneRover on Monday, December 03, 2001 - 11:37 pm: Edit

Perhaps you could pull out all the interior, Cover with a Rhino Lining truck bed sorta thing, throw some defender seats in while using the footwell as a tank for h2o.

By Mike B. on Tuesday, December 04, 2001 - 07:43 pm: Edit

I guess you could remove everything. The interior of your Disco (under the carpets) is finished nicely. You'd have to deal with the heat from the engine compartment though.

Thanks,
Mike B.

By cartner on Tuesday, December 04, 2001 - 09:52 pm: Edit

Hmmm...I"m thinking rubber mats on top of some dynomat attached to the mats rather than the floor. I think it might make a much more easily cleaned situation, and potentialy putting a drain cock in the floor would be nice....Something to think about. more Series truck than Disco though, but interesting.