Insulation question

1930artdeco

1930artdeco

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Ok, I am thinking waaaay ahead here but in the doors of my 57 wagon Ford sprayed a bunch of tar type stuff. I know the peel and stick sound deadener/insulator stuff is better. But until I can tear the doors apart can I add say roofing tar to the inside of the doors for additional sound proofing? Is it worth it or should I just leave it be for now.

Just wondering….
Thanks,

Mike
 
If you use the tar stuff you most likely have to remove it before you use the peel and stick stuff,,. Otherwise the peel and stick stuff may not adhere to the tar coating and you will have a real job removing it..
 
Getting that tar off isn’t easy. Even where half was falling off, the rest was stuck just fine on mine. On the other hand, if it’s good, I’d find something that would go over the top of it.

Now if the doors are off the car, stripped, and laying on a table you can soak it off. I watched a really good body man do that with the doors on my friends 56 Nomad. With that level of detail, you can guess how long it was in paint jail.
 
Just trying to decide if it is worth adding to it now and deal with removing it when I do a frame off in 15 yrs or leave the doors alone until then.
 
You really just need to do a rectangle in the middle,of the door. If it’s really apart you can do all of it. But just dampening the main part not only cuts that noise but the drumming effect. Makes a bigger difference than I suspected.

But the big deal in the doors was the rattles that went away from the new window felts and whiskers, and all the loose bolts we found. K and I took a winter and did his Nomad and my Bird side by side in his big shop. Shocked us both how much it changed both cars when spring finally came..

The floors I did complete, and rolled it down with the rollers I had for Formica counters. Found some small ones for the recessed areas. That made it a lot quieter. In a bird, the big deal is heat, the mufflers are right under your feet, and air flow under the car isn’t great. Worse when you lower it too.
 
I was under the impression that the tar inside the doors was there to stiffen up the metal. I simply removed the pieces that had become detached, then sprayed a good coat of undercoating over what remained.
 
There used to be a product called body Schultz. Pretty much the same stuff Ford used. Takes a special gun to shoot it. I have been just using cans of spray on rubberized undercoating, looks the same and does the same job. I would not bother to take any old stuff out, just spray over it.
 
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