[DuRolf]

Hello folks, this is my first post. I have a 1989 Ford E 350 diesel van / Born Free "President" RV converted to 4WD. The motor is the old 7.3 liter IDI International that preceded the Powerstrokes. To say the vehicle is loud is an understatement, and I have taken on the project of making it a lot quieter inside.
To start with, I have divided the project into three parts, the cab floor, the dog house, and the doors.
I pulled the thick household carpeting off the flooring. The metal underneath was in good shape. A fair amount of some asphalt looking sound deadener remained stuck to the metal, and I left it. I painted several coats of white latex primer atop it all, and then applied RAAMAudio vibration dampener to about 25% of the area. Then I applied RAAMAudio self adhesive 1/8" closed cel foam. Atop that I glued on mass loaded vinyl from Trademark Soundproofing via Amazon. I put on the MLV in many pieces, overlapping them or edging them together them up tight, and then Gorilla taped all the seams.

 

[Beckerson1]

Yes I know. Keeping an eye on this. Just so you know

You must feed our appetite for pictures. BTW welcome to DIYMA

 

[DuRolf]

Got a picher of margharitas coming right up, as well as photographs. I tried to upload from my Samsung phone via my Chromebook, but the operation just stalled. I will try again from a windows machine.

 

[JoshHefnerX]

And Welcome!

 

[JoshHefnerX]

Any updates to this?

 

[DuRolf]

I have a trove of pix, and am having a devil of a time uploading them.
- manage attachments
- choose file
- upload
is not bringing up the pix. Can anyone walk me through it?

 

[Extended Power]

Photobucket is your friend...

 

[Beckerson1]

Yes use photobucket and use the URL to upload them

 

[DuRolf]

So, from Photobucket, copy and pasting any of the four link types
Email & IM
Direct
HTML
IMG
into the "upload file from a url" part of manage attachments leads to upload error invalid file.
The size of my photo is 1.5MB, well under the 19.07 allowed for a .jpg.
The resolution of the photo is 3264 x 1836. Is the resolution numbered in the same units as the max width and max height in the manage attachments?

 

[JoshHefnerX]

I downsize mine to 800x450 I think...? And use the direct link into the pic icon (mountains)

Josh

 

[SkizeR]

So, from Photobucket, copy and pasting any of the four link types
Email & IM
Direct
HTML
IMG
into the "upload file from a url" part of manage attachments leads to upload error invalid file.
The size of my photo is 1.5MB, well under the 19.07 allowed for a .jpg.
The resolution of the photo is 3264 x 1836. Is the resolution numbered in the same units as the max width and max height in the manage attachments?

use the IMG url

 

[DuRolf]

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The cab of the Born Free with seats taken out

 

[DuRolf]

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Starting to pull up the carpet.

 

[DuRolf]

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Old wiring harnesses that didn't go anywhere. You can see old sound dampener still adhered to the metal.

 

[DuRolf]

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After painting the floor with several layers of latex primer and applying RAAMAudio vibration dampener. I didn't scrape up any of the old factory dampener that was still well adhered to the metal.

 

[DuRolf]

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Cutting out the RAAMAudio closed cel foam tracing my old carpet.

 

[DuRolf]

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Now the RAAMAudio CCF is adhered down.

 

[DuRolf]

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Here is where I hope I did right. The one piece mass loaded vinyl was unwieldy, so I cut it into smaller pieces. I was careful to always butt the edges against each other, or overlap. I finished by covering all the seams with wide Gorilla Tape.

 

[DuRolf]

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This is the beast.

 

[JoshHefnerX]

That's looking pretty good! Have you noticed a difference? I noticed a small dif w/ cld, but the ccf and mlv really changed it. Is the back made out for camping?

Josh