Tigers.
We've heard a lot about insulation for heat in the passenger compartment. How
about some "hands-on" experience with sound suppressents. The original Tiger
under-dash insulation was a combination of Jute and Burlap that tends to turn to
dust after a few years. Stick your head up there and you are likely to get a
face full you won't forget.
Inside the door panels is a layer of asphalt tar paper stuck to the back side of
the door. Unless the window mechanism has peeled it off and stuffed it into the
bottom of the door.
In the center of the hardetop, underneath that very same burlap and jute that
gently fall through the headliner onto your head, is a large square of what
might originally have been a rubbery sound deadner, but after years of heat and
age has truned to a hardened tar that breaks off in large chunks.
I have found two expensive options. Q-Pads in 12" and 16" thicker peel-off
sticky squares, Dynamat Premium (0.045 thick), and Dynamat Super (0.060 thick),
and Dyna Liner for the floors. All very dear at $80-$90 for 10 to 12 sq. ft. of
sticky-back.
a much less expensive option is in local large hardware stores. They carry a
rubber like polymer with a cloth stabilizing insert for about $0.49/sq.ft. and
some double aluminum faced thin/light foam rolls 50" wide for about $2.00 per
linear foot. Adhesives not included.
Any "hands-on" recommendations for the above applications?
Would anyone like a shoebox full of jute dust to sniff, for that "original
feel"?
Steve
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