My old carpet is removed and now I'm ready for the next step. I have to install my sound deadener and then the new carpet. Should I do anything special to the existing exposed floor other than vacuum it out? Is it recommended to paint it or remove old carpet glue? Would love some input from you folks. Thanks.

 

Installing the front floor pans requires very little glue... if you have raw flooring, the best thing you can do is just make sure it's clean. Then apply the deaden-er and then the carpet.

You really don't need to remove much of anything, just make sure it's clean. The new deaden-er will go in just fine. I use Wildwood glue and shoot it from a gun, but you can use 3m fast tack trim adhesive and it will work just fine. You treat it like contact cement, spray it on the floor, spray it on the deaden-er... let it dry the stick it down.

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If the sound deadener material you are using is foil covered, you may want to shoot some 3M spray adhesive on the sound deadener so that the carpet will not slide on it. You won't need much; just wander the spray around a bit on the deadener, let tack up, then install the carpeting.

What are you doing about heat insulation in that area? (sound deadener won't do anything for heat rejection)

 

7T1, foil cover is for heat insulation.

 

Yes I have the CNC cut foil backed sound deadener and I have some 3M spray . Thanks everyone.

 

Foil only blocks 'radiated' heat. Conduction and convection heat (the vast majority of the heat entering a C3 compartment) don't even know the foil is there. You need jute padding like came on it originally; or you can pay big buck$ for those specialty heat barrier items that will do the same thing.

 

Well!! .. We have a thermal analyst amongst us.

Seriously thanks... good information.

 

My new carpet turned out extremely well - and, kudos for the good question.
I first sprayed the bare floor with a liberal amount of Lysol disinfectant spray. New carpet is a very nice interior "reset". The normal old carpet smell is partly from bacteria having dinner. Go all the way in killing them and starting over, fresh. Also, really scrub the passenger floorboard with soap and water to remove the musty-causing old anti-freeze from any earlier heater core leaks. Yours is a '74? Good chance it is not the original heater core. Anti-freeze doesn't evaporate, smells bad on a hot day and is probably bad stuff to breathe if it kills to drink.

I then layed down a layer of the thin rubber/foil across the whole floorboard using a little wallpaper roller that came with the small roll of the stuff. It was WELL worth it because it will dramatically reduce NVH in your car - or, at least make it far less noticeable. It is easy to install - you only need good scissors to cut the sheets to the floor's contours, just as all learned in kindergarten.

Btw, if you spray a liberal coat of 3M Fabric Protector on your carpet after you install it, over the years the positive effect on keeping your carpet's appearance like new is amazing. Hardware stores stock it in their cleaning supplies aisle.

Hope any of this was helpful- good luck.

 

I pulled my carpet, and all the under laying stuff out of my car. I cleaned everything off the floor, down to clean fiberglass. I installed DynaMat Xtreme on the clean fiberglass, and then started installing the padding and carpet. My wife can ride with bare feet, of just socks on, and not be hot now. I've since added all the under car insulation, when I had the engine and trans out too. The biggest thing I can say, if I had to do it all over again, I'd do it the exact same way again.

 

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