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Hi! I was wondering what is the best way to insulate a 65 chev pickup. The doors plates on the inside can be easily taken off...so that at least one third of the door can be fill with some kind of insulation as the upper portion is where the window takes space when rolled down.

The ceiling has an inner sheet metal ceiling as you know leaving about an 2 inches of space between the outer shell and it...so i was thinking perhaps some kind of foam could be sprayed in between the gaps for insulation.

Any ideas appreciated

Starrider

I don't know if you'd want to put insulation in bottom of doors, could plug up drain holes, and might hold moisture.

Whitelightning...yes i thought of that too... fiberglass would just get wet and soggy and creat more rust.

Thanks

Starrider

If it's noise you're trying to deaden, you probably need to concentrate on firewall,and floor of cab.

Whitelightning...no so much the noise...rather just keeping the cab warm on a cold winter day or cool on a hot summer day.

The floor is easy... just more insulating material under carpet.

Looking at the inner door plate that when taken off i found one of the two plates had rust so probably will spray the back side of it with undercoating which will prevent futher rusting and help with deadening the sound.

Inotherwords i am trying to convert the cab which feels like a tin box into something
more comfortable.

BTW just got the truck back from the paint and body shop. Looks like new. What colour???
.....volkswagon bright yellow!!! and also had them repaint the interior dash etc...again what colour.....
pearl white with matching pearl white pleted
bench seat.

You have to believe me it looks great!!!

Starrider

Sounds really nice, you'll have to post some pictures. You might want to use some sort of rust stop type paint, Zero Rust, Por 15, ect.

spraying foam insulation between the ceiling and roof works great. I did this on a crew-cab by drilling 1/4" holes every 6" on a cross section and holding the plastic tube in one until foam was forced out the surrounding holes then move over and repeat. Next day cut off excess with razor blade and throw away the shirt you were wearing.My roof is like a igloo cooler lid.......ps. be sure you set your bit so you can't drill through, I don't think you have 2" good luck

Try this site ( www.b-quiet.com ). They have some good ideas and products to do what you want. Joe

If you use any expanding foam to insulate the truck, be sure to use the minimally expanding kind, because it will push sheet metal out of shape if it is too concentrated in one area. Construction workers are well aware of this now, because of many mishaps when the product came out. The foam literally blew walls apart when too concentrated.

There are other products just now coming out that are a spray on foam application that both insulates specifically for heat and sound. I'd do some more research on what's available. I plan to do something similar for my truck, but I haven't researched it yet because I'm nowhere near that step in my buildup. I figured that by the time I am ready there will be even more products in this market.

Check out the newest Street Rod magazine. It has a short story about spray insulation/sound deadner. R&B's are the distributor of the product. Joe

Hi Joe, I read the same article last night and thought of this post. The ceramic coating sounds almost to good. You get sound and insulating and condensation reduction all at the same time.

Its only $150 for a pretty big bucket. I don't know how far that will go, but should cover the whole inside pretty easy. If I can figure out how to spray it.... This sounds kind of high, but if you price Dyna-mat or some of the others this is a pretty good deal. joe