[Chrysler300] Fw: '57 & '58 300 trunklid insulation factory assembly, how'd they do it....

["Wayne Graefen" <wgraefen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm hoping Robert Merrit, NY, will chime in on this and correct anything of his corporate history that I misrepresent.  You see, it was SimplexCo, back in his father's day, that produced for Detroit that tar soaked felt that was crimped between the outer sheetmetal and the inner trunk frame prior to primer and paint.  The felt is very highly absorbent of paint and in probably 90% of the cars there is little to no evidence of the paint products because it was fully absorbed.  During some production the paints were heavily enough applied that they did show up to a very minor degree.  Remember these cars were built prior to robotic painting so there is wide variation in coverage.  When you do see very obvious paint on the trunk lid insulation, you can be certain that the trunk inner was repainted at a later date after the tarred felt had been drying and evaporating and remembering that it has already been lightly primed and painted once each, succeeding coats become readily visible.  The felt had multiple functions acting as a temperature insulator, sound insulator, rattle /squeak insulator between the sheet metal and frame, and when the outer and inner stampings were quite similar, the tarred felt significantly slowed all but the edges of the unpaintable metal areas from rusting.


Wayne 

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From: Owen Grigg [mailto:ram300@xxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Tuesday, 1 April 2008 8:21 p.m.
To: 'Chrysler 300 club'
Subject: '57 & '58 300 trunklid insulation factory assembly, how'd they do it.... 

 

Hi All

Whilst working on my 300C I was just curious to know how the factory put together the trunk lid assembly. The factory installed insulation appears to be in one large sheet, not cut to fit the holes. There is no overspray from the trunk lid frame on the insulation material, surely the factory did not mask the inside of the trunk to spray the frame and avoid the insulation pad. All I can come up with is the frame and outer trunk skin were painted before joining the two together and sandwiching the insulation pad, sounds like a roundabout way of doing it? 

 

Anyone know how they did it, would put my mind at rest.

 

Thanks

Owen

Auckland,NZ

 


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