Floorboard insulation recommendation

Love this floorboard insulation so wanting to share.
Pulled my original, super worn out carpet and replaced with less worn out (clean) salvage yard carpet.
While the seats and carpet were out I added this insulation from Amazon. Well worth money and the hour it took me to install. The truck is noticeably quieter. I might even be able to use the speaker phone now. Sadly I didn’t get an after pic.

 

Was that 36sf enough for entire floor?
Thanks

 

definitely a mod well worth the effort!

 

36 sf was plenty. Did the rear cubbies too. Doubled up near the transmission. And a few pieces left over to add to the inside walls of the doors when I have the time. You’ll figure it out. Make sure to have the little carpet/linoleum roller device from Home Depot. That’s a must. And be careful of the sharp edges in a few places.

 

And I covered up the drain hole plugs. Too much effort to cut in and just more of an opportunity for noise to ‘leak’ through.

 

Did my door panels with similar stuff, works very well and holds up to the Tucson heat. Made quite a difference sound wise.
Floor and carpet are next.

 

I like that. I’ve heard some people stick some on the interior of the door while the glass is up to deaden vibration. I’ll probably order more and do like you did. Love these trucks but man it’s tough to make phone calls at 70mph.

 

I've done this to every surface as I remove pieces. Makes a huge difference. Especially in the doors, just a loud thud when you knock on it versus the hollow sound. Whenever I send the seatbelts off for new webbing I'll be knocking out the rear panel area. Did it when installing new carpet too.

 

I just broke my driver side door latch and had to rip open the Siless I put in it. I doubled/tripled up in some spots and the truck is almost as quiet as my old 2016 Lexus lol.

Something to consider too is the to deaden hood, around the transmission housing, and between the exhaust headshields and body. maybe 5% of the deadener melted and the rest has held up over a year now.

 

Before everyone runs off and buys name brand stuff, I did an analysis of all of them a couple years ago based on Mass/$ (takes into account sqft) and the Amazon blue stuff came out the winner. Depending on which particular slice or roll is on deal

Btw all those bumps are supposed to "pop"/flatten to signify maximum adhesion

 

Didn't know that, thanks for sharing!

Luckily I didn't want to ever deal with air pockets trapping moisture(taco rust lol) so I made it a point to lay the butyl down slowly, roll it out, or palm-crush the butyl.

So far its held up!

 

About 20 years ago I did my entire truck except the roof (I used Raammat), because I was convinced that I would crease the headliner during removal. I'm thinking of finally doing the roof, now that the mod list is short. Assuming no issues doing the roof, or issues with creasing the headliner?

 

I did all of this on my 2002 Taco a few years ago and it did make a difference but not as much as putting new tires on the truck did! I think i would do it again but i would not be as hell bent on covering every square inch like it did the first time. Looks good!!

 

You have to fold the headliner quasi hotdog style to get it out of the cab, but I was able to get it out/in with patience and that was with seats and console taken out already. One person was enough but it was a handful. No creases exist. The greasy handmarks remain.

 

I have popped out the rear window and the headliner can come out that way with just a little bit of flexin

 

I did it too, details in my build thread. Well worth it.

 

Watch for leaks forming from your passenger door when it rains. I see in the bottom center that the butyl tape runs above that cavity and not under it. Water from above may trickle down behind the metal and escape through there thus making the floor wet.

I'd suggest running a hose along the window from the other side with the door card removed so you can see if there's any leakage.

 

could you be more specific in what you're addressing here. I just did my doors this past spring. I surely don't want any water running into the cab and getting my carpet wet.

Thanks

 

The finished product actually has tape completely covering those old drain holes. I ran gallons of water over it after to make sure it drained correctly, before it was leaking past the weather strip onto the carpet now it’s fully directed to all those little drain holes on the bottom of the door.

I mirrored the factory cutout as best as possible when redoing it all. It’s been 6 months and here on the southern coast it rains daily. So far all good.

 

Awesome, that's a relief. I recently did mine a few months ago and missed that area so I wanted to make sure it wouldn't leak on you as well!