Skid plate damper

[buck91]

Picked up a 1/4" stampped aluminum "skid" plate for my '18. Mostly just for medium duty protection of the plastic transmission pan from road debris and seasonal roads... Some people have mentioned minor NVH issues with it, though, so I'm considering spraying it with a coating to dampen and ringing/NVH/whatever. Looking at either your standard rubberized undercoat, cheap spray on bed liner or flex seal... No idea if any would be more effective than the others although since have a spare can of flex seal somewhere I'm leaning that way.

 

[Rand]

more effective would probably be some sort of thin rubber bushing between the mounting points on truck and the skid plate.

 

[buck91]

more effective would probably be some sort of thin rubber bushing between the mounting points on truck and the skid plate.

FLEX SEAL!!!

 

[DuckRyder]

id stick a piece of dynamat to the chassis side of it if i was worried about NVH.

 

[BHopkins]

You already have the Flex Seal on hand. What do you have to lose by trying it out? If it doesn't work out, you can add a sheet of Dynamat.

 

[AZjeff]

Is it a given it's going to make noise? If some do and some don't it may be a solution looking for a problem. I'd bolt it on first if it's not a hassle and see if it makes noise. Hard to not get out the Flex Seal when you have it already.

 

[Egg_Head]

Not saying it cannot not occur to some degree, however I'd like to meet the people who claim to notice NVH from an aluminum skid plate being added to a full-sized pickup truck.