I have to agree with Alistair and others. I used the bulley method with some modification. HOWEVER, the Kool Patch I used works great. Turned all my doors on my 1981 from CLANG to WUMPF when I close them.

Sean Garrett
81 Westy (his)
87 Syncro (Subie project)
95 EVC (hers)
Central Arizona

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alistair Bell [mailto:albell@UVIC.CA]
> Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 7:58 AM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: Bulley website/pages and a crazy idea
> 
> 
> Bill,
> 
> The statement:
> 
> "The Q-Pads have a mixture of other materials in it, that all 
> resonate at
> different frequencies, and that is what cancels out the noise."
> 
> Sounds like Q-Pad marketing bumpf.
> 
> 
> "It's almost like a stick-on sandbag." Well that implies mass 
> rather than a
> heterogeneous mixture that is the sound attenuating mechanism.
> 
> Alistair
> 
> 
> PS used self adhesive roofing material (asphalt and filler 
> matrix, quite
> heavy, quite inexpensive) up to 4 layers thick on my van.
> 
> 
> 
> --
> '82 Westy -> diesel converted to gas in '94
> albell@uvic.ca
> http://members.shaw.ca/albell
> 
> 
> 
> on 6/10/03 7:09 am, Bill Marshall wrote:
> 
> > The roofing stuff doesn't work nearly as well.  The Q-Pads 
> have a mixture of
> > other materials in it, that all resonate at different 
> frequencies, and that is
> > what cancels out the noise.  It's almost like a stick-on sandbag.
> >
> > This is the cheapest I've found, will be trying it soon:
> > 
> <http://www.partsexpress.com/pe/pshowdetl.cfm?&PartNumber=268-
020&Did=7>