Sound Dampening the cab

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So needless to say, my 82 C1500 is not the quietest cab I've ever been in.  There is a nasty whistle coming from the windows... Believe to be the weather seal... But mainly it's the noise from the truck and the noise from the road.  Now maybe I'm just whining to much, but come on I can't even hear the stock radio when it's turned all the way up! :P  So the best idea I had was to Dynomat the entire cab.  Well unfortunately that sh!# isn't cheap!  So the next best idea I could come up with was to go into Home Depot or a carpet store and try to find some kind of High Density Poly Urythene foam padding, or thin dense carpet padding.  And run it under my rubber floor cover, behind the door panels, cab side of the firewall, on the ceiling, and behind the bench.  Does anyone have any thoughts, ideas, or comments on this.  Since I love the body of this era truck and love the versatility of motor and transmission options, I am thinking I will invest my money into making this truck my "NEW" truck.  Since I am not to fond of the 20 million look-a-like trucks out there.

[bowtieguy]

use some Autozone bed liner and roll it or brush it on first,  then go with a nice foam or some type of OEM style sound deadener or a dyno mat.  I have the bed liner coating on my floors and intend on doing the back of the cab and all soon. and put it on thick!  good stuff!

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B-Quiets Brown Bread.
Check my buddy Jeff's writeup of his install.
www.73-87.com/7387garage/...dening.htm

He post on here at bigblock73 if you want to PM him.  There are pics on that link also of it installed.  He was so impressed with it he convinced me to use it when I get to that point.

Chris Lucas
www.73-87chevytrucks.com
www.captkaoscustoms.com
Project Su
Jimmy 2WD Project

[SUX2BU99]

The guy who redid my truck before I bought it had reinstalled factory sound insulation on the floor. I think it does a decent job and it's fairly thick too. I've used house carpet underlay (the blue stuff, kinda looks 'chunky' for lack of a better word) on door panels before to quiet vibrations from door-mounted midbass with good success. And it's cheap too.