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Old 11-08-2007, 02:19 PM   #1 (permalink)
trainman0978
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20 bucks and three hours.....

Sorry no pics. girlfriend has the camera at school with her today. If you saw this thread sound deadener install

then you know I have done some serious sound killing in my truck. What I left off doing at the time was finishing the job, because I thought I was done. today I pulled the rear seat backs out, and took off the upper and lower trim panels on both rear quarters and broke out two rolls of R-13 insulation and started stuffing every nook and cranny I could find in side those hollow tin cans toyota calls quarter panels. The sound deadener job made leaps and bounds in quiet ride quality, but it didn't kill that muffler drone in a way that pleased me, even with the extensive work I did on the rear door. This that I did today, made it go away completely. Literally do as I said, just stuff the insulation into the body after plastic panels have been removed. It does so much for tire noise, road noise, exhaust drone, and there might be a little bit of thermal gain there too.

I did use caution around the invertor, the front and back ( skinny sides ) have fans and vents for air flow, so don't block those. I also put carpet padding ( yeah I know, not exactly the best thing ) in front of the tail light wiring so I wouldn't have to dig out fiberglass insulation when it came time to change a bulb. I will replace it with some second skin overkill when I order some more. other than that, you can do the rear door with just insulation, as I think it should be part of the job, and you could even do the suicide doors as well.

Even if you are never planning to do a sound deadening ( second skin-dynamat, etc. ) install, this will still reap great benefits, give you a noticeably quieter ride all for 20 bucks at the home depot. the R-13 is $9.97 for a 40 sq. ft. roll. It took me about 2.5 to 3 hrs. to do it, but add a little more time if you do the back door, as I had already done mine a few weeks back.....

oh to get the seat backs out, pop the cover off the back of the seat, find a bolt on each bottom corner. the passenger side has the seat belt bolt that has to come out as well you can leave the brackets on the wheel humps, they wont be in your way.

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