Another Mopar Off My Bucket List - Barracuda Fastback
What a pain in the *ss it's been trying to put the tailgate decals on. I probably should have removed the wood first so that it wasn't in my way. The biggest problem I had was with the decals themselves. I've put on a lot of decals similar to these over the years and never had this much trouble.
I mixed my solution of soapy water and sprayed the backside of the decals after removing the waxy paper that protected their adhesive. I used a plastic putty spreader to squeegee out the water as I aligned them with my reference points. But when I tried to remove the outside layer of paper it didn't want to release the decals. I fought it for a long time as I painstakingly worked the paper off the decals. The thinner stripes stretched because the paper was so strongly bonded to them. I had to soap them back up and reposition them to correct the stretched lengths. In one spot I had to trim a half inch out of the middle of one of the stripes because it had stretched so much. I hope the rest of the decals aren't so difficult.
Just like the wood, I had purchased these decals a long time ago. Even though they'd stayed sealed inside of a climate controlled house the paper adhesive may have aged out. So once again, it's probably my own fault.
The end results still turned out OK.
View attachment IMG_4561.jpg
View attachment IMG_4565.jpg
What a pain in the *ss it's been trying to put the tailgate decals on. I probably should have removed the wood first so that it wasn't in my way. The biggest problem I had was with the decals themselves. I've put on a lot of decals similar to these over the years and never had this much trouble.
I mixed my solution of soapy water and sprayed the backside of the decals after removing the waxy paper that protected their adhesive. I used a plastic putty spreader to squeegee out the water as I aligned them with my reference points. But when I tried to remove the outside layer of paper it didn't want to release the decals. I fought it for a long time as I painstakingly worked the paper off the decals. The thinner stripes stretched because the paper was so strongly bonded to them. I had to soap them back up and reposition them to correct the stretched lengths. In one spot I had to trim a half inch out of the middle of one of the stripes because it had stretched so much. I hope the rest of the decals aren't so difficult.
Just like the wood, I had purchased these decals a long time ago. Even though they'd stayed sealed inside of a climate controlled house the paper adhesive may have aged out. So once again, it's probably my own fault.
The end results still turned out OK.
View attachment IMG_4561.jpg
View attachment IMG_4565.jpg