i drove a fellow Lightning owners truck today to grab lunch... anyway, this was the first time i had ever driven any other L besides mine....

anyway, i noticed right away that it seemed so quite inside his....you had to actually try and hear the engine... of course you could hear the exhaust, but his engine seemed so quite....

is that normal? mine seems pretty noisy... i have an LFP idler that makes a little rattle noise and can hear it spinning... but just overall i think mine is alot louder.... im gonna park next to his later and compare, but was just curious....

 

could it be cuz he has a steel hood and mine is fiberglass? would that cause mine to seem louder?

 

This question is just a little too subjective. We'd have to hear it our selves to really make an objective judgement.

It could be anything from a bad motor mount to a loose exhaust. And most likely it's a combination of everything!

Rich

 

ya i guess its too many variables.... ill just have to break down one day and see a few things... its just his seems like a cadilac compared to mine... lol

 

my truck quit being quiet in the cab when I installed the MAC catback exhaust.

 

Two layers of dynomat and a layer of lead foam make my cab resonably quiet...

 

Where did he get the steel hood ? And why ? What does it look like ?

 

Mine also use to be quite inside, but no more............
Headers and exhaust cured that......


PEacE...................
Jim

 

The inside of my cab is quite nice.. It's not very quiet though.

 

I agree with Clonetek. The sad thing is even a spell check would not have corrected it. When you are reading and writing quickly it is easy to spell incorrectly.

Marvin

 

quit with the quaint quip....

 

I have a 2003. I have a good friend with a 2000. The 2000 is markedly quieter in the cab. There is less road noise, engine noise and exhaust noise. I am convinced that there has to be a difference in the insulation between the early and later trucks.

 

I have a magnaflow catback and gutted cats. I hear nothing but a loud roaring everywhere I go.

 

a steel hood or is it aluminum ?

 

Rear window rattle is driving me insane.