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sagging headliner

wazzabie

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Does anyone else have the sagging headliner? I'm about to take it out ans some how try to fix it. The vinyl part has delaminitated from the cardboard piece.

Anyone have some suggestions on how to fix it?
 
i tried the spray on adhesives, but they wouldn't work. the thin layer of foam behind the fabric was too dry and it kept crumbling off. i just bought a new one from lmc.
 
I took it out and placed it in the trash. Don't miss it at all. Actually, I think the roof looks better without it.
 
Some auto parts store also sell these little thumbtack looking things, only they aren't straight, the pointy part is spiraled and they twist in the backing board. My brother used them in an old Caddy we had to hold the cloth headliner up out of the way. Takes quite a few, but does work.

I have done the staple gun thing before on others, it works for a little while, but when windows are rolled down alot, the flapping cloth or whatever tends to tear from the staples.
 
I personally would avoid anything that you insert into the headliner, like staples...or screws...or thumb tacks...mainly because they eventually fall down, and you end up finding them by sitting on them:doah:

I do agree, that yellow 3M monkey snot glue is the way to go, stuff sticks to just about anything and stays there for a while (including your hands). Here's another idea; take the headliner out and rip off all that saggy fabric, then glue on a beach towel with your favorite design and call it good, for once the PO of my truck got something right!:D

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headliner materal from the fabric store should work with the 3m glue on the old headliner backing.
 
Wow. really liked the beach towel idea. As for the glue I like using Pliobond, this stuff never lets go.
 
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wanna buy it? :haha:
 
The headliner in one of my El-Caminos used to inflate like an air bag at highway speeds with the windows down,eventually it would block your vision,and became a hazard..I tried using 3M super spray adhesive by shoving the straw nozzle thru one of the holes in the fabric and spraying it on the roof,then pushed the liner against it and then away,and let it tack up...it held great for a few months till summer heat made it fail again...

One day while dumping my trash at the dump,I was looking in the metal pile to scrounge for anything worth hauling home,and I saw a large set of venecian blinds made of metal someone scrapped,that had to be 5 feet across at least,they were scattered all over the ground....a light went off in my head,and I scooped up all the ones that weren't bent up,took them home,spray painted them silver,and shoved them into the plastim trim around the doors and across the ceiling,which put an end to my sagging headliner blues,and it actually looked good too!...
 
runamok151 said:
i tried the spray on adhesives, but they wouldn't work. the thin layer of foam behind the fabric was too dry and it kept crumbling off. i just bought a new one from lmc.
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If you remove all that foam crap then glue it to the cardboard it looks fine and will last a long time.
 
max 02 said:
You know better than that...should be in the for sale section.:haha::haha:

Rules ya know!
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since others apparently don't have to follow the rules, why should I? :confused:






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I was kidding anyway, a headliner isn't exactly an easy item to ship anyway.... :doah:
 
$10 Carbon fiber vinyl material, from Pep Boys.
I covered the backside of the fabric in 3M spray adhesive.

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The bumps that you can see, are actually the foam.
 
onetonbb74 said:
headliner materal from the fabric store should work with the 3m glue on the old headliner backing.
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x2. My local JoAnn fabrics had the foam-backed headliner material in stock in like 15 colors. They also had vinyl. Previously, I had thought those stores were only for girls. Anyway, the stuff is cheap, looks great and holds up to UV for years and years. The job is easy to do because you just take the cardboard headliner out and work on it on a bench or table. The big orange can of "heavy duty headliner adhesive" will hold it *forever*, but you have to clean off all the crumbly old foam first.
 
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