Another Mopar Off My Bucket List - Barracuda Fastback
The new headliner has about six inches of extra material on each side. It's main purpose is to give you something to grab hold of as you stretch the material. With the 2 wire hooks holding the back bow in place we proceeded to pull on the front of the headliner. We had been making certain that our centering marks were staying aligned. Once we had the front center hooked on those 'teeth' we had one guy stand outside of the car on each side and stretch the material towards the corners as the inside guy continued to hook more and more of the leading edge of the headliner onto more teeth. If you're not familiar with those teeth, they resemble the teeth on a saw blade and work similarly to those tack strips that are used for laying carpet in a house. I didn't get any good pictures of them. This picture is somewhat similar and is of a Duster.
Some care has to be taken when hooking the fabric on those teeth. Because each tooth makes a small cut in the material you wouldn't want to do much repositioning. I tried to get a nice even unwrinkled stretch going before I hooked onto each tooth.
With the front attached we repeated the procedure on the back tack strip teeth.
With the front and back attached we turned our attention to the sides. As I sat inside the car I pulled the material out over the seam that the little metal clips would lock the material to.
With the perimeter of the headliner secured it was easy to see all the areas where the material wasn't allowed to stretch enough. Some slits were necessary to prevent wrinkles. I was careful not to make my cuts too far. The perimeter where the material would not lay flat was usually around curved openings but I also had to make some cuts in the material that would be beneath the sail panels.
Before cutting off our excess material we attached some of the trimwork. We really didn't need to but we wanted to make sure that we could find all of the holes for our trim screws. By doing it in this order it meant we'd still have enough material there so that we could have a peek beneath the headliner if we needed to.
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The new headliner has about six inches of extra material on each side. It's main purpose is to give you something to grab hold of as you stretch the material. With the 2 wire hooks holding the back bow in place we proceeded to pull on the front of the headliner. We had been making certain that our centering marks were staying aligned. Once we had the front center hooked on those 'teeth' we had one guy stand outside of the car on each side and stretch the material towards the corners as the inside guy continued to hook more and more of the leading edge of the headliner onto more teeth. If you're not familiar with those teeth, they resemble the teeth on a saw blade and work similarly to those tack strips that are used for laying carpet in a house. I didn't get any good pictures of them. This picture is somewhat similar and is of a Duster.
Some care has to be taken when hooking the fabric on those teeth. Because each tooth makes a small cut in the material you wouldn't want to do much repositioning. I tried to get a nice even unwrinkled stretch going before I hooked onto each tooth.
With the front attached we repeated the procedure on the back tack strip teeth.
With the front and back attached we turned our attention to the sides. As I sat inside the car I pulled the material out over the seam that the little metal clips would lock the material to.
With the perimeter of the headliner secured it was easy to see all the areas where the material wasn't allowed to stretch enough. Some slits were necessary to prevent wrinkles. I was careful not to make my cuts too far. The perimeter where the material would not lay flat was usually around curved openings but I also had to make some cuts in the material that would be beneath the sail panels.
Before cutting off our excess material we attached some of the trimwork. We really didn't need to but we wanted to make sure that we could find all of the holes for our trim screws. By doing it in this order it meant we'd still have enough material there so that we could have a peek beneath the headliner if we needed to.
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