Interior Catalytic Converter heat shield/pad thing

[Jess]

My brand new windshield not having a proper seal and soaking my (still factory) carpets during this last round of rain in California has forced my "time to work on the interior" hand.

 

So I pulled the seats/carpets and I noticed there is a white padding that sits on the passenger side between the floor and the jute padding. I assume this is further insulation from the catalytic converter? For any of you guys & gals who've done interior work, what do you replace this with? Mine is soaking wet and disgusting and once I get this windshield fixed I want to clean things up a bit.

 

 

I got some Noico knock off Dynmat product I'm going to line the cab with and I'm looking at getting a premolded carpet that's either massbacked or comes with new jute padding since mines pretty gross, but the more heat I can keep out the better. 

[sloride]

I was able to reuse mine and have a layer under the carpet of Reflectix found at Lowe's.  But you could try using something like summit racing product 721202.  It looks promising.

[Keyav8r]

Just finished doing some floor repair and found that same white insulation under the padding. Like you, I assume it's for additional heat insulation.

While repairing the driver's side floor, I separated the carpet from the padding and checked the padding for moisture, mold and mildew and found it to be in good contition. Had to remove some rust flakes that were stuck to it but was able to reuse it.

The carpet was in pretty good shape with the exception of some wear in the driver side foot well and some cracking of the plastic insert. I dyed the carpet with a mix of Rit fabric dyes and got fairly close to the original color. You have to clean it well before dying. I vacuumed several times, scrubbed it with a strong Simple Green and water mix, rinsed it several times and let it sun dry. Mixed the powdered dye with hot water in a 2 gallon garden sprayer and went over the carpet several times until I ran out of dye. Let the carpet sun dry again and then draped it over a couple of sawhorses and washed the excess dye out with a garden hose. Let it sun dry again and installed in the truck (padding having been installed first).

Alternate cleaning method is to take the carpet to a coin operated car wash - did this when I dyed the carpet for my 88 (advantage is having pressure soap wash and rinse - disadvantage is having to load the soaked carpet and take it back home to dry). If you have a pressure washer at home you could use it to clean and to remove excess dye. Just don't get the nozzle too close as you might blow some of the nap off the backing.

Sorry, no photos.