1972 Duster Build with my Daughter
Spent a few hours a day this weekend in the garage. Cut the new A-Body roof insulation material to match to original. That was the toughest stuff I have ever had to cut...... Used 3M upholstery adhesive to glue it to the roof.
We then wanted to start a project we could finish..... ha-ha-ha. We opened the Ideal Headliner conversion to install a bow type headliner in the '72 (original was a foam core board and nasty). We struggled for hours and finally threw up our hands and went out for a nice Italian dinner.
You have to install these cheap brackets and cut the bows. The instructions were useless. The original bow clips go in those flat areas which I figured out after installing the first one to the rear of the flat area shown below..
Here is the factory position. IMPORTANT NOTE: After you get these set bend the bottom of the bracket up and fold it over on itself. That way it can't slip down the slot and it is out of the way of the head liner when your trying to get it to lay flat in that area.
This morning we went to pick up the rest of the goodies from the guy we bought the car from and stopped to buy some small clamps to help. These worked PERFECTLY and it came out better than expected! I used 10 clamps and could have used 5 more.
These wrinkles will smooth out when the rest of the moulding and dome light go it but even this is far beyond my expectations after yesterday.
Spent a few hours a day this weekend in the garage. Cut the new A-Body roof insulation material to match to original. That was the toughest stuff I have ever had to cut...... Used 3M upholstery adhesive to glue it to the roof.
We then wanted to start a project we could finish..... ha-ha-ha. We opened the Ideal Headliner conversion to install a bow type headliner in the '72 (original was a foam core board and nasty). We struggled for hours and finally threw up our hands and went out for a nice Italian dinner.
You have to install these cheap brackets and cut the bows. The instructions were useless. The original bow clips go in those flat areas which I figured out after installing the first one to the rear of the flat area shown below..
Here is the factory position. IMPORTANT NOTE: After you get these set bend the bottom of the bracket up and fold it over on itself. That way it can't slip down the slot and it is out of the way of the head liner when your trying to get it to lay flat in that area.
This morning we went to pick up the rest of the goodies from the guy we bought the car from and stopped to buy some small clamps to help. These worked PERFECTLY and it came out better than expected! I used 10 clamps and could have used 5 more.
These wrinkles will smooth out when the rest of the moulding and dome light go it but even this is far beyond my expectations after yesterday.