head liner falling?

[Justin Fun]

Well Oracle owns 3 of these and I own one. They all had the same proplem - roof liner falling. We tried the 3M stuff that you spray on, but within a week it started coming apart again. We tried, super glue, and a lot of other products, but none would hold up - until now.
A friend of ours gave us some stuff called "Sta'Put" Multi-purpose spray adhesive. This stuff works great! You do have to work a little fast, but it's pretty easy to do and the stuff really sticks. We put the liner on it's side, standing straigt up. Oracle spared the edge of the liner frame. Then we pulled the material over the edge. I pressed down lightly and it really held.
It also works on the insulation liner under the hood. That was another problem we had. Every time we lifted the hood the liner would start to drop. Not any more. You just spray, push, and it sticks. :eek:

[Coley]

Justin,
Which 3M did you use? I used #77 two weeks ago re-doing mine

BTW, what part of Arkansas (Canaan's land) are you in? I'm from Eldorado.

[Rich 89 Gr. Wag]

A year or so back, I brought my GW to a car upholstery shop. for $150 they removed the old headliner and foam backing and put new foam and liner in. Looked great and no problems.

I just hated the feel of the headliner resting on my head while driving - makes you feel like white trash.

[FrankenJeep]

Originally posted by Rich 89 Gr. Wag:
I just hated the feel of the headliner resting on my head while driving - makes you feel like white trash.My Chero's PO used black thumb tacks to hold uph the black liner. It makes quite a conversation piece (after the passengers stop laughing). tongue.gif

One day I'll replace it with the 4x8 plywood trick mentioned on the website.

Personally, I always thought that wearing jeans and a T-shirt to church made me feel like WT. :D :D :D

Frank

[mdill]

The headliner repair took me and my daughter (shes was 10 at
the time) about 4 -5 hours. From what I could tell the foam backing
on the origonal material just desloved into some sticky icky crap.
(only seemed to do this where exposed to air, as the areas under
brackets was fine)
What we did is hit a upostery shop and buy some new material (
mistake #1 I found a much better place on the web later) one
can of thier spray adhesive (one can was enough but just
barely) Removed the headliner from the wagon, stripped the
old material. The wost part was then cleaning the above mentioned
icky goo off the origional boards. (I don't beleive there is any way
to salvage the origional material, and unless the boards get cleaned
off the new glue won't have a good surface to bond to) The
most effective way I found to clean the boards was to rub using the palm
of my hand. to rub the goo off, I tried solvents without much luck
(I tried not to soak and warp the boards) , scrapers did not work
very well and tended to nick the boads, so after about an hour of
wearing my hand out I had clean boards. I then rough cut the
material to shape leaving about 1"overhang all the way around the board.
I then folded the material in half, on the board, then sprayed the
exsposed board and back of the material with glue. Working from the
fold out to the edge being carefull not to intoduce creases pressing the
fabric to the board. I then repeated for the other half , then the other board.
Looks pretty good two years latter. No sags and I am the only one that seems
to see the places where I made slight mistakes.

Mike D.

[Dan G]

Ok, if you can live without the padding, Walmart sells felt that matches most of our interiors.

I bought I think it was $5 worth and I had a 5 gallon drum of carpet adhesive.

Much like Mdill, I removed the old residue with my hands and a scraper. I dry-fitted the felt and then got out the carpet adhesive and trowelled it onto the cardboard, laid the felt over (don't push too hard, the adhesive WILL come right thru the felt) and now I have a non-sagging headliner.

If you've ever had to rip up carpet that's been glued down, you know how tenacious carpet adhesive is.