Is there asbestos in this brown firewall pad for mopar a bodies?

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when i bought my shoddy pad the description from the place i bought it from mentioned "replacing your old asbestos shoddy pad" with a new non asbestos one

at the time i even called my mopar buddy to ***** about how we rode around breathing it all those years.
 
The only interior padding that I've heard may contain asbestos is the densly formed pads such as those behind the kickpanels. Even that is rumor, not fact.
It seems highly unlikely the shoddy contains it. Was it ever used loosely like rock wool and fiberglass batting? I can't think of any examples of that. Even when used as insulation around steam pipes and such, it originally was sealed in.

Asbestos is NOT in lath. Lath was made from split, and then later rough sawn lumber. In the 20th century expanded sheet metal screening became a commonly used lath.
Plaster is lime and sand, and the rough coats often had horse hair or similar mixed.
Plaster does not usually contain asbestos. There was a very short time period (relative to the time period of widespread plaster use) where asbestos might be found added to plasterwork in addition to or instead of the hair. At about that same time, gypsum board was starting to take off. Bottom line is not be concerned about plaster unless there's very specific reason to do so.
 
Known as the shoddy pad. Rock wool and maybe fiberglass, and I believe kick panel insulation is straight up fiberglass. All silica based, just like asbestos. When I was young, I tried to clean up a pile of silica filter sand with a shop vac. If you can imagine what breathing broken glass is like, that’s about the closest thing I could compare it to. If you choose to vac it out, keep it wet!
When I was young 65yrs ago, that was common carpet padding. It is not Rockwool. I remember it was said to be horsehair, though it looks like hemp to me.
 
In my industry (mechanical hvac) I have seen more material that was thought to contain asbestos and didn't then I have seen scenarios that required legit abatement.

I cant imagine any interior insulation contained asbestos but test kits are readily available.
 
Like previously posted, wet it down, now days everything is bad for you, we as kids would play with thermometer mercury, still alive and never owned a Mercury, just Mopars
 
Wear your Covid mask, bag it, and be done with it. We're not talking plutonium here.....
 
And then there is DDT.
What's wrong with DDT? Stuff works great. Just don't use so much as to adversely affect bird egg shell thickness. Millions of people around the world die every year from NOT using it.
 
All true.
When I became a Firefighter back in the day we had 30 minute air bottles and gas powered roof saws.
The senior men complained about the heavy air packs and preferred axes over gas saws.
Now the guys wear snow pants, hoods, thick gloves and 45 minute heavy air tanks and chain vent saws that Rev at 12,000 rpms.
Yet we are still dying from the inherent dangers.
Progress!
 
I'm going to wager that there's probably not as much asbestos in that underlayment as there is in your average Covid mask from China.
 
Don’t forget the FJB and LGB, too

Just covering all bases...

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Never heard of anyone getting mesothelioma from their car insulation.

Never heard of anyone getting it from scraping a popcorn ceiling either but people will pay thousands to have it done.
 
Just paid $3,300 to get 1400sf of popcorn ceiling from 1987, scraped, patched, primed and painted.
What a friggin mess.
But he was In and out in 5 days.
 
I would not be surprised one bit if there was asbestos in there. Not one single bit.
 
I would not be surprised one bit if there was asbestos in there. Not one single bit.
Yup. Two things to remember:

1) By EPA definition, if something has more than 1% asbestos, it is asbestos containing.
2) Historically asbestos was used as a binder in almost everything.
 
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