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Sounds easy enough. .
CJ
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| Author: | Jopapa [ Tue Sep 04, 2007 5:19 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Cardboard headliner removal |
The headliner in my Duster is pretty beat up, so I'm wanting to go ahead and remove it so I can work on cleaning up the sheet metal (if it's nasty) and applying sound deadener. Is there any real trick to removing the cardboard ones, or can I just grip it n' rip it once I get the plastic trim and dome light pulled off? |
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| Author: | DusterIdiot [ Tue Sep 04, 2007 6:35 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Remove all of the following... |
It's not really all cardboard, it actually has a thin layer of styrofoam inbetween two layers of thin cardboard...(I had to dissect a 'dead' one at a junkyard just to see...)... To remove the head liner, remove your trim peices above the door (yes all that metal stuff's gotta go, remove the coat hangar hook in the back seat, dome light, visors, rear view mirror...under the metal trim will be some clips (varies by year I see 1973 had some huge wire retainers, which had been done away with by 1974...), remove the clips and the headliner can be jockeyed slowly out of the front and rear windshield gasket, also get a cover for the floor of your car, mopar put a 1" thick 'chunk of insulation' on top of the headliner which is sure to be a nasty brown pile of dustcake...(you may also have to pull your b-pillar plastic trim also) If you do it correctly, you now have a pattern to make a replacement out of... -D.Idiot Been there done this 5 times...can't wait to try it on a sunroof car... |
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| Author: | Jopapa [ Tue Sep 04, 2007 8:29 pm ] |
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Sounds easy enough. The front and rear windshields both have to be removed to install the new one, correct? So far I'm planning on just ordering a new one once I'm ready to install it. |
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| Author: | ceej [ Tue Sep 04, 2007 8:43 pm ] |
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Quote: Sounds easy enough. .
CJ |
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| Author: | Jopapa [ Tue Sep 04, 2007 9:21 pm ] |
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Quote: Quote: Sounds easy enough. .
CJ 
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| Author: | slantasaurus [ Tue Sep 04, 2007 9:52 pm ] |
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There is no replacement cardboard headliner avalible repro. Dante's does have a plastic headliner to replace the cardboard one though, I was going to go that route when I get that far, it's easier than trying to find bows and replace with a cloth headliner. If you order one of these, post some pics, I'd like to know more about it, I've only seen a pic and a paragraph in MCG when it was released about a year ago. |
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| Author: | DusterIdiot [ Wed Sep 05, 2007 6:48 am ] |
| Post subject: | Not really... |
Quote: The front and rear windshields both have to be removed to install the new one, correct?
You can take the time to 'curl' the lip back or have a friend help while you tuck the new replacement under the lip....There are no OEM/new replacements, I had a couple guys here in town want to borrow my 'spare' 1974 version (the 1976 one doesn't have the holes for the rear view mirror as it mounts to the windsheild...not the roof). The price kills the deal everytime...$100+ to remake a quality repop then because of the size (OSR since it's bigger than 48" by 36")... by that time the price of getting the cloth headliner is about even... -D.Idiot |
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| Author: | slantasaurus [ Wed Sep 05, 2007 10:29 pm ] |
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Here is the link for the Dante's headliner, unless you want to change to the cloth type(try finding the bows!!!), it's the only option. http://www.dantesparts.com/abodymolded.html |
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| Author: | sick6 [ Thu Sep 06, 2007 6:12 am ] |
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when I re-did my '75 I sprayed it with some super 3M sticky smelly stuff and attached black vynil to it. turned out very nice. |
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| Author: | Jopapa [ Thu Sep 06, 2007 6:44 am ] |
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Quote: Here is the link for the Dante's headliner, unless you want to change to the cloth type(try finding the bows!!!), it's the only option.
I wonder how it holds up over time Vs. a cloth headliner, and how easy it is to install Vs. the cloth (not figuring in the difficulty of finding bows)...
http://www.dantesparts.com/abodymolded.html |
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| Author: | sethmcneil [ Thu Sep 06, 2007 12:28 pm ] |
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http://www.legendaryautointeriors.com/w ... 3&desc=ABS no photo but Legendary has them made of plastic- there is a photo in the paper catolouge though... i know that 73dart_swinger bought one, but weather it has been installed yet is a question mark. |
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| Author: | 74DartSwinger [ Thu Sep 06, 2007 3:31 pm ] |
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I bought one of the ones from ebay a while back. It was also made of ABS. It did not fit from side to side. It lacked about 2 and a half inches total and would not reach to tuck under the trim above the windows.Before I recieved it , I was contacted by the seller who said he had a return on a headliner from a buyer with a dodge sport and would I like that one. He thought it should fit . I told him no I paid for a new one. Well...I think to save themselves money they figured they'd just send me the returned wrong one anyway. I had the headliner for a good 6 months before I got around to installing it. Or should I say trying to install it. I made some cuts on the sides trying to imitate the cutouts for the seatbelt harnesses and rendered it non returnable. So I just wrote it off ... Good luck and ask alot of questions before you buy one of these. Charlie |
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| Author: | 74DartSport [ Mon Sep 24, 2007 3:54 pm ] |
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Quote: Here is the link for the Dante's headliner, unless you want to change to the cloth type(try finding the bows!!!), it's the only option.
This may be a stupid question, but what are bows? Once I get my windshields reinstalled, I have my original cardboard headliner to install and I don't need any surprises if I don't have all I need to complete the installation.
http://www.dantesparts.com/abodymolded.html |
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| Author: | Jopapa [ Mon Sep 24, 2007 5:13 pm ] |
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Quote: Quote: Here is the link for the Dante's headliner, unless you want to change to the cloth type(try finding the bows!!!), it's the only option.
This may be a stupid question, but what are bows? Once I get my windshields reinstalled, I have my original cardboard headliner to install and I don't need any surprises if I don't have all I need to complete the installation.http://www.dantesparts.com/abodymolded.html |
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