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- City, State
- anaheim hills,california
- Year, Model & Trim Level
- 95 ranger 4x4/ 91 X 4x4
...This will work on most Ford vehicles...I chose to do this on my Ranger as it decided to start falling apart in the last month...
...The headliner is a cloth material with a foam backing already attached...You can find the Headliner material at Wholesale Fabric suppliers...This is the place I get most of my auto material from...The prices on their site have not been updated in a while...
http://www.a1foamandfabrics.com/site/index.cfm
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..This job is a little tough to do if you are not so inclined with patience...Do not attempt to do this if you are short on time...This is one of those projects that the finished product will show your impatience...
This is what I started with and this is in front of the driver...I cut a piece of this to verify material and color..
...This piece at the rear of the Ranger was cut out, just in case the sun had discolored the above pictured piece...
...This is what I purchased for my Ranger so verify quantities for your vehicle..
Material's
Medium Grey Headliner
The Headliner material I bought was sold in 50" length, and you buy it by the yard...Different supplier's will count yardage differently...My supplier counted my material as 3' width x 50" length = 1 yard - Cost = $13.50 pl. tx.
Adhesive
The contact adhesive I used to apply the headliner with was my suppliers own brand at $8.50 a can pl. tx....You can find it and 3M adhesive here...
http://www.a1foamandfabrics.com/site/department.cfm?id=CE2A554A-ADD4-46A9-AD3B218AFAC6F771
Total Cost was $24
Total Time
...Again, time is not an issue when doing this so be prepared to take as long as needed...The amount of time to remove the old product varies greatly by the size of what you are working on, and the amount of old product that needs to be removed off of the cardboard...These times are for my Ranger with minimal removal having to be removed from the cardboard...
Time Remove and Re-install headliner = 1/2 hr. total
Time to remove old product from cardboard = 1 hr
Time to final clean, let dry, and final wipe cardboard = 1 hr.
Time to cut, adhere, and final trim headliner material = 1 hr or so
Total time for this project was about 3-1/2 hr.
...If you are planning to do your Explorer or another vehicle with a large headliner, I would plan on devoting the whole weekend to it...
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The Removal and Replacement...
1) Do a visual of all the edges and note which ones are not covered by plastic moldings...These will be the ones you have to pay the most attention to...
2) Start removing all grab handles, visors, hanger clips, interior lighting, etc...Keep all screws and clips with the part in which they came off with...Keep each part and it's screws seperate as other parts may have similar but different screws/clips...
..This is a pic of behind the interior light on my Ranger...It only has three screws but note all the holes...One of the screws go thru the bottom electrical connection pictured here...
3) Remove remaining plastic molding the holds up the headliner...Some headliners have holding clips that don't have to be removed...They do swivel to make removal and installation of the Headliner easier...
4) Remove Headliner and inspect...I noticed moisture marks on top of the Headliner and so I quicly checked the interior of the roof for signs of a possible leak...It was all good, no leaks...I did not notice any thing on the bottom of the Headliner before so I figure this must have been a condensation thing...
5) Find a starting point...Look at the headliner and find a point to start removing the old product from the cardboard...
...Note the paper backing on the old material...You want to get your hands under this and slowly lift up all the material you can without ripping this backing or leving it attached to the cardboard...Take your time removing this...
6) Removing the hard stuff...This is where it gets time consuming...Anything that you can't easily get off by hand, will now need to be removed from the cardboard...This means the foam, paper backing, and most importantly, the old adhesive...
Removal of the old adhesive can be done by using a stiff scraper but, you do not want to damage the cardboard...This is a close up pic of the the old adhesive still stuck to the cardboard after the removal of the foam...
7) Final cleaning and prep...After getting all the old adhesive off, you will need to remove all the old dirt and such off of the cardboard...I used about 14 different damp, clean, shop paper towels to do this small piece...The key to this is for the paper towels to only be damp (and not soaking wet) in order to wash the cardboard down while removing all possible dirt...
I let this air dry for an hour or so before I dry wiped it down with more clean shop towels in order to remove the remaining dust residue...
8) Installing the new Headliner material to the cardboard...From here, you need to follow the manufacturer's of the contact adhesive directions...Mine said to apply at temps above 65 degrees...(we shall see)...I applied the adhesive and carefully worked in sections...The whole time paying close attention to the placement of the material and being sure to leave overhang at all edges...As I went, I trimmed larger overhanging pieces so the weight of the material would not pull the newly installed material up from the cardboard...Be sure to leave at least an inch overhanging so you can come back and easily do a close trim...Anything less than 1" will be very difficult to handle while cutting...
...I let this sit for a while and dry before i did my final trim...I next cut out all the little holes for the visor's and etc...
9)Reinstall the reverse of what the removal was...It takes a little longer to reinstall everything...The visors were probably the biggest pain next to carefully getting the new headliner back into position and lifted up to the ceiling...
10)The final product...It's not factory but it sure beats what I was looking at yesterday...:biggthump
..For those looking to do there Explorer, these tools come in handy from Harbor Freight for removing your buttons on the ceiling...
...The headliner is a cloth material with a foam backing already attached...You can find the Headliner material at Wholesale Fabric suppliers...This is the place I get most of my auto material from...The prices on their site have not been updated in a while...
http://www.a1foamandfabrics.com/site/index.cfm
_________________________________________________________________________________
..This job is a little tough to do if you are not so inclined with patience...Do not attempt to do this if you are short on time...This is one of those projects that the finished product will show your impatience...
This is what I started with and this is in front of the driver...I cut a piece of this to verify material and color..
...This piece at the rear of the Ranger was cut out, just in case the sun had discolored the above pictured piece...
...This is what I purchased for my Ranger so verify quantities for your vehicle..
Material's
Medium Grey Headliner
The Headliner material I bought was sold in 50" length, and you buy it by the yard...Different supplier's will count yardage differently...My supplier counted my material as 3' width x 50" length = 1 yard - Cost = $13.50 pl. tx.
Adhesive
The contact adhesive I used to apply the headliner with was my suppliers own brand at $8.50 a can pl. tx....You can find it and 3M adhesive here...
http://www.a1foamandfabrics.com/site/department.cfm?id=CE2A554A-ADD4-46A9-AD3B218AFAC6F771
Total Cost was $24
Total Time
...Again, time is not an issue when doing this so be prepared to take as long as needed...The amount of time to remove the old product varies greatly by the size of what you are working on, and the amount of old product that needs to be removed off of the cardboard...These times are for my Ranger with minimal removal having to be removed from the cardboard...
Time Remove and Re-install headliner = 1/2 hr. total
Time to remove old product from cardboard = 1 hr
Time to final clean, let dry, and final wipe cardboard = 1 hr.
Time to cut, adhere, and final trim headliner material = 1 hr or so
Total time for this project was about 3-1/2 hr.
...If you are planning to do your Explorer or another vehicle with a large headliner, I would plan on devoting the whole weekend to it...
________________________________________________________________________________
The Removal and Replacement...
1) Do a visual of all the edges and note which ones are not covered by plastic moldings...These will be the ones you have to pay the most attention to...
2) Start removing all grab handles, visors, hanger clips, interior lighting, etc...Keep all screws and clips with the part in which they came off with...Keep each part and it's screws seperate as other parts may have similar but different screws/clips...
..This is a pic of behind the interior light on my Ranger...It only has three screws but note all the holes...One of the screws go thru the bottom electrical connection pictured here...
3) Remove remaining plastic molding the holds up the headliner...Some headliners have holding clips that don't have to be removed...They do swivel to make removal and installation of the Headliner easier...
4) Remove Headliner and inspect...I noticed moisture marks on top of the Headliner and so I quicly checked the interior of the roof for signs of a possible leak...It was all good, no leaks...I did not notice any thing on the bottom of the Headliner before so I figure this must have been a condensation thing...
5) Find a starting point...Look at the headliner and find a point to start removing the old product from the cardboard...
...Note the paper backing on the old material...You want to get your hands under this and slowly lift up all the material you can without ripping this backing or leving it attached to the cardboard...Take your time removing this...
6) Removing the hard stuff...This is where it gets time consuming...Anything that you can't easily get off by hand, will now need to be removed from the cardboard...This means the foam, paper backing, and most importantly, the old adhesive...
Removal of the old adhesive can be done by using a stiff scraper but, you do not want to damage the cardboard...This is a close up pic of the the old adhesive still stuck to the cardboard after the removal of the foam...
7) Final cleaning and prep...After getting all the old adhesive off, you will need to remove all the old dirt and such off of the cardboard...I used about 14 different damp, clean, shop paper towels to do this small piece...The key to this is for the paper towels to only be damp (and not soaking wet) in order to wash the cardboard down while removing all possible dirt...
I let this air dry for an hour or so before I dry wiped it down with more clean shop towels in order to remove the remaining dust residue...
8) Installing the new Headliner material to the cardboard...From here, you need to follow the manufacturer's of the contact adhesive directions...Mine said to apply at temps above 65 degrees...(we shall see)...I applied the adhesive and carefully worked in sections...The whole time paying close attention to the placement of the material and being sure to leave overhang at all edges...As I went, I trimmed larger overhanging pieces so the weight of the material would not pull the newly installed material up from the cardboard...Be sure to leave at least an inch overhanging so you can come back and easily do a close trim...Anything less than 1" will be very difficult to handle while cutting...
...I let this sit for a while and dry before i did my final trim...I next cut out all the little holes for the visor's and etc...
9)Reinstall the reverse of what the removal was...It takes a little longer to reinstall everything...The visors were probably the biggest pain next to carefully getting the new headliner back into position and lifted up to the ceiling...
10)The final product...It's not factory but it sure beats what I was looking at yesterday...:biggthump
..For those looking to do there Explorer, these tools come in handy from Harbor Freight for removing your buttons on the ceiling...
...I hope all is going well on your project...
