bigfooted12

Yes I tried doing a search but I never found the right search words to find it. I love trail riding, but the cab of my Cherokee gets so hot b/c of the heat coming threw the floor from the drivetrain and exhaust. What do you guys do about it on the cheap? Like floor coating or something.

freegdr

Hot everywhere or just over exhaust ?

bigfooted12

Everywhere. You can feel it radiating threw the floor

freegdr

You still got factory carpet sounds like maybe exhast getting extra hot

bigfooted12

I would agree but this isn't warmer/worse along the exhaust routing. I am just looking for a cheap way to insulate the cab from the heat. I now there are coating for heat but they ain't cheap. I may just start some trial and error with different stuff.

freegdr

They make that stick down floor stuff for sound cant remember the name pretty sure it helps with heat also.

freegdr

Dynamat...http://www.dynamat.com/

DougyFresh

I was planning to take the carpet out of mine until one day after a looonnggg day of slow trail riding, I reached down to get my cell phone that was in the console under the e-brake handle and it was almost to hot to touch... I'm almost scared to know how hot the floor would be if i didn't have carpet...

I'm thinking some hood vents (or maybe even a full blown cowl hood), some cooling system upgrades, tranny cooler upgrade, and a freer flowing exhaust(less time the heat is under there, less time it can heaksoak is my theory) will help a bit.

Is there a rubber "carpet" available for an XJ? I'm talking like what comes in a lot of base model stripped down work trucks.

ktmracer419

I used this for the cab of my truck:

http://www.lowes.com/pd_154017-81326-PS625_0__

adhesive backed aluminum flashing. I have never worked with dynamat, but supposed this stuff is very similar and much cheaper. nice and easy to work with and supposedly does a good job with heat and noise. I do know my doors shut a lot more solid than they used to. I should have it back on the road in a couple weeks to find out how much of a difference this stuff really made

bigfltruck

I pulled my carpet after flooding my interior now i have to were long pants so i don't burn my leg on the Trans tunnel. There is some stuff called fat mat i have been looking at but nothing i have found looks cheap.

bigfooted12

http://www.summitracing.com/search?k...%2050100&dds=1
This stuff they used on the show muscle car. It is actually cheaper than I thought but still not cheap enough. Oh I just noticed you gotta spend another $80 for the gun and mixer to spray it.

alloutperform

go get some of the aluminum bubble wrap looking hvac duct wrap for a house.. i use it on alot of cars and trucks i build.. hold it down with any kind of adhesive and foil tape your seams

alloutperform

my suggestion will only work if you run a carpet, otherwise you are looking at lizard skin or something to that effect, i run the SEM pro rock epoxy bedliner kit in the vw my driveline is much tighter to the tunnel than an xj and i don't seem to have major heat problems.. that kit is $100 ans comes with a throw away gun that makes install great.. far tougher than the roll in crap

RollTider

Anyone ever used this stuff?
http://www.hytechsales.com/

alloutperform

looks shady, name dropping NASA with getto clip art all over the page..