Velcro glue and sound deadening oh my!

[Wagoncrzy]

I'm trying to work on the interior of my 87 Wagoneer and like all things funds are becoming extremely scarce. My brother (Anthony)has a carpet installation company, they use a variety of materials for padding....One of the best and most expensive pads is a slab rubber based material...fortunately for me he has some laying around...I did the entire front of the truck in Dynaliner, but like I said... no money ... I was thinking about laying this slab rubber in the back bed area using velcro to hold it in place......I'd also like to velcro this padding to the interior sheetmetal behind the cargo panels to absorb road noise...I guess I could glue it in these spaces but if I ever had to remove it...it'd be a mess.....What would you do? Would you use epoxy to attach velcro to sheetmetal/ padding?.. and what type of epoxy to attach the velcro to sheet metal if any at all. Then what would you use to attach the velcro to the slab rubber?
Are the adhesives on the back of the velcro adequate to secure to sheetmetal?
Pics of areas applying slab rubber.

http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x160/Wagoncrzy/WAG%20INTERIOR/100_6103-2.jpg

http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x160/Wagoncrzy/WAG%20INTERIOR/100_6100-1.gif

[Billygoat]

Mosty sticky back velcro in my experience is just sticky enough to stay inplace long enough to make you think it is holding. Floor may not be to bad, but the sides, probaly not.
Check the local hardware stores for a contact adhesive, check the can for materials it works with, a pint should be plenty and under $10

[Al Johnson]

There are different grades of Velcro and the backing adhesives. If you spend a couple extra bucks on the real Velcro brand, with high strength adhesive, that stuff will NOT come off. Consider it permanent once set up for 24 hours. Here's an example link to some for $7.00 a yard for both sides:
http://www.paragear.com/templates/base_template.asp?group=167#W909PSA
I'm sure there are lots of other places to buy this, most likely cheaper as well, but I knew of this place.

Good luck!

[JeepinPete]

Are you going to reinstall the stainless steel cargo strips in the back? If so, there is no need for the velcro.

[Wagoncrzy]

Are you going to reinstall the stainless steel cargo strips in the back? If so, there is no need for the velcro.
I'm not using the SS cargo strips....I may replace them if repro's ever come out.

[JPSwapMohn]

I may be (and probably am) wrong here, but I don't think attaching the rubber sheeting to the fenders with velcro is going to give you the desired effect. It may help some, but the idea behind the noise damping stuff is that is have full contact with the body panel so it can absorb or prevent vibration. I don't think you will get that effect if it is only really contacting the fenders at the velcro.

It will help in that it is insulation and should cut some noise if you put a sheet of it throughout the fender to serve as a barrier.

Again, I may be wrong in this.

[kahula]

working in the aerospace industry, you can imagine that we deal with alot of vibration issues, we actually use the 3M 777 spray contact adhesive or gorilla glue for attaching many different materials together.