Headliner question

[IslandJ]

Hey Im curious what the stock headliner looks like on these trucks?
mine is missing.

[boozehero]

I'll take some pix of mine.
They are a one piece backing with interior color matching material

[Fingers]

old thread, but I'm bring it back because it seems unfinished and I have an additional question. How is the headliner kept in place from the factory? My headliner is also missing, but I know it was there as there are padding remnants left stuck up there. I am going to make my own embossed headliner, just wondering how it's held in place.

[Law Dog]

It’s shaped cardboard based molded with buttons that hold it in place.

[xboxrox]

Hi Fingers
An upolstery shop did a headliner for my truck and they used magnets to hold it in place ~ the worker wished they had better (stronger) magnets which are available but all they had was the local hardware store variety ~ other than that I have no real clues about the materials or methods they used except there was the smell of spray contact cement for a week or two...

Hope that helps.

[Fingers]

Well, I'm going to try it with hardboard. Same material I'll be using to make new door cards, also embossed with the diamond star. I might use a 1" layer of high density foam to keep the board from bouncing around. I'm going to put something called Deck Flash Barrier on first, kindof a poor man's dynamat.

I was also considering using that plastic painters drop cloth (heaviest mil I can find) as a moisture barrier for the doors. Think that will work or is there a better option?

[xboxrox]

Plastic works, new mattresses are covered in a heavier clear plastic...

[SubGothius]

If you do the plastic curtain thing, I'd recommend cutting "flags" as wide as each opening in the inner door skin, so you can tuck the lower end of each flag into the door cavity. That way, any water that gets past the window seals will drip down the plastic and be diverted into the door cavity where it can drain out the holes in the bottom of the door, rather than dripping down to wind up trapped between the inner door skin and the interior door trim card, where it would eventually deteriorate the card, foster mold/mildew growth, etc.

[Fingers]

Yeah, I'm not into doing foster care for mold.....

To clarify, the flags would have their connection on the top side of the opening?

[charger_john]

Once upon a time I made my own headliner for a full-size Chevy van. I used 1/8” Masonite backing with polar fleece fabric glued to the inside for a nice appearance. It came out very well and I’d do it again. Good luck~

[AESHMA]

is there anywhere to order one?

[Scotty G]

That's genius, I love that idea. The headliner on my D-50 Sport was off and rolled up behind the driver's seat when I bought the truck in 2017. It's a tan vinyl color that matches the seats but it's perforated, and has some black stuff on the back and on the ceiling. It really bing-bing-bings without anything up there other than just sheet metal. I was thinking of using some sort of Dynamat-like material and then redoing that perforated vinyl, maybe. Although, I really like your poster board idea.

[pennyman1]

I used the heaviest poster board and covered it with thin foam padding and finally purple velour in 1990.



once done I slid it into the gap between the roof and the frame