1966 Dodge Dart
Been working with the headliner the last few nights. I think Ive got a pretty good start on getting it in. I started by laying it out in the sun for 2 days. That really helped flatten out all the creases form being in a box for the last 3 years. Then I layed it upside down on the hood of the car and installed the bows. I found I was missing one bow so I had to make one from some spares that I had. I cut the pockets for the bows back 1" and installed bows into the liner. I ran into trouble on the back 2 bow pockets as they were much longer in length and I wasnt sure how they needed to be trimmed. Looking bck I would say i ended up cutting them just a little to far. I then placed the liner into the car working it over the rollbar. then I hooked up the 2 rear springs on the back bow and stretched the liner starting in the front. Went to the back and pulled back trying to keep the liner centered as well as possible. The liner came from legendary and they did not mark a center on the liner. then I repeated the front stretch and rear stretch one more time. Once I was happy there I went to drivers side and started in the middle of door area and worked forward on both side then went to the rear sides. This didnt take very long to do but its not easy to be crawling around in the car with a rollbar at my age! I had about 3 hours in the initial install. Now I am re-glueing everything and starting to trim material as I go forward. I am very happy with the front half of the headliner install, but the rear area around the sail panels looks like it will be the biggest and hardest challenge. I plan on taking that area on next week. A few notes, The glue i used was DAP Weldwood. However those 2 bottles werent even close to enough. Also when I went back to get additional glue I ended up getting the DAP Weldwood in a guart can and I bought the Gel non drip. It was much easier to work with and seemed to be just as good bonding. Heres a few pics of the install.
Id like to throw out a thank you to one of our members heres that contacted me and offered good solid advice when he read my thread for help. Thank you Hoosierdaddy! Im not sure how this would have gone without your help.
Rod
Been working with the headliner the last few nights. I think Ive got a pretty good start on getting it in. I started by laying it out in the sun for 2 days. That really helped flatten out all the creases form being in a box for the last 3 years. Then I layed it upside down on the hood of the car and installed the bows. I found I was missing one bow so I had to make one from some spares that I had. I cut the pockets for the bows back 1" and installed bows into the liner. I ran into trouble on the back 2 bow pockets as they were much longer in length and I wasnt sure how they needed to be trimmed. Looking bck I would say i ended up cutting them just a little to far. I then placed the liner into the car working it over the rollbar. then I hooked up the 2 rear springs on the back bow and stretched the liner starting in the front. Went to the back and pulled back trying to keep the liner centered as well as possible. The liner came from legendary and they did not mark a center on the liner. then I repeated the front stretch and rear stretch one more time. Once I was happy there I went to drivers side and started in the middle of door area and worked forward on both side then went to the rear sides. This didnt take very long to do but its not easy to be crawling around in the car with a rollbar at my age! I had about 3 hours in the initial install. Now I am re-glueing everything and starting to trim material as I go forward. I am very happy with the front half of the headliner install, but the rear area around the sail panels looks like it will be the biggest and hardest challenge. I plan on taking that area on next week. A few notes, The glue i used was DAP Weldwood. However those 2 bottles werent even close to enough. Also when I went back to get additional glue I ended up getting the DAP Weldwood in a guart can and I bought the Gel non drip. It was much easier to work with and seemed to be just as good bonding. Heres a few pics of the install.
Id like to throw out a thank you to one of our members heres that contacted me and offered good solid advice when he read my thread for help. Thank you Hoosierdaddy! Im not sure how this would have gone without your help.
Rod