Very true. I was thinking about a forced air breathing respirator and not a simple particulate respirator. Since I don't routinely use one, I failed to differentiate between the two. Thanks for doing so.
New carpet install/bedliner removal help
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Very true. I was thinking about a forced air breathing respirator and not a simple particulate respirator. Since I don't routinely use one, I failed to differentiate between the two. Thanks for doing so.
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Got some help from @joebattle1 and got to it this morning. Very slow going. I think we tried every tool in his garage. We made some progress but I wanted to try a huge dry ice slurpy like @CaptClose recommended. Got 10 lbs of dry ice and 2 bottles of isopropyl. I think that just made the bed liner angry. I realized the issue I'm having is not that the bed liner is stuck to the truck, it's that it is so thick and unwieldy. When it gets cold it basically turns into armor, impossible to cut and not brittle enough to shatter.
Finally happened on a workable solution. Slow going with a dremel and cutting blade, trying not to inhale the melted rubber fumes. Follow that up by peeling pieces back and helping along with a really sharp boning knife. Pretty sure whenever I get another day to work on it I will have it out.
Thanks for all the advice. I'll keep updating this thread as it goes.
Finally happened on a workable solution. Slow going with a dremel and cutting blade, trying not to inhale the melted rubber fumes. Follow that up by peeling pieces back and helping along with a really sharp boning knife. Pretty sure whenever I get another day to work on it I will have it out.
Thanks for all the advice. I'll keep updating this thread as it goes.
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With the bed liner all out I got to the fatmat and rust repair. After a ton of research and lack of a welder I decided to follow @NeverGiveUpYota and use seam sealer. Got some steel rivets and I slathered the seam sealer on really thick both top and bottom to make sure any gaps I had were filled. Don't see any downside to having it be thick. Then covered the whole footwell with Rust Bullet.
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Fat Mat in and then topped with 3/4" McMaster sound deadening foam. Got the @dnp carpet mostly installed but no pics yet. Will post some up tomorrow after the seats go back in. I definitely messed up the shifter holes on the carpet. With no old carpet to help template out what goes where it was really hard to gauge where to cut. In retrospect I should have taken more time but that's easy to say now. I'll try and sew the little cut I have in front of the shifter to see if that works.
For anyone else doing this, the @dnp carpet has sort of "templates" underneath where the jute goes and the most likely shifter holes are. Those did not line up with my shifters in my rig. After hours of positioning and repositioning I think that's just the way it will have to lay in my truck. So, don't just follow blindly where the jute is layed out on the carpet.
With Fat Mat, 3/4" foam and the jute+carpet I'm really hoping to minimize the SBC and transmission noise up front. Fired it up with no seats in and it seems quieter but will need to put it all together and rip around the freeway before I know. My iPhone measured 99 db in the cab on the freeway before I did all this. Will test and report back.
Also, I'm only doing the front half of my rig for now. I really enjoy the bedliner in the rear but I'll drive it around a bit before a final decision is made. We sleep in the back a lot and the foam is really comfy!
Adding the foam made a huge difference in sound just walking around in there. This little tool really made the carpet cuts easy.
For anyone else doing this, the @dnp carpet has sort of "templates" underneath where the jute goes and the most likely shifter holes are. Those did not line up with my shifters in my rig. After hours of positioning and repositioning I think that's just the way it will have to lay in my truck. So, don't just follow blindly where the jute is layed out on the carpet.
With Fat Mat, 3/4" foam and the jute+carpet I'm really hoping to minimize the SBC and transmission noise up front. Fired it up with no seats in and it seems quieter but will need to put it all together and rip around the freeway before I know. My iPhone measured 99 db in the cab on the freeway before I did all this. Will test and report back.
Also, I'm only doing the front half of my rig for now. I really enjoy the bedliner in the rear but I'll drive it around a bit before a final decision is made. We sleep in the back a lot and the foam is really comfy!
Adding the foam made a huge difference in sound just walking around in there. This little tool really made the carpet cuts easy.
Looks like a lot of hard work getting that bed liner out. Will be interesting to see how much quiter it is on the road.
Have you got it all done? Would love to see the finished outcome
