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I did a search and could not find the answer to my questions. I heard that you should spray your cardboard headliner with a solution of water and ammonia? What would the mixture be percentage wise? Also do you have to worry abt getting it too wet? Do you spray both sides to get it wet enough? Thanks for any help you can give. Mark 1937 1/2 ton

i rolled my cold...well as cold as we can get in arizona, but the water/ammonia solution is supposed to work pretty well. don't know the ratio of water vs. ammonia, although i would imagine just the water would work fine considering the evaporative rate in our part of the world.

i can't remember where i read the thread regarding headliner installation but what i remember is that you don't want to get it too wet. the cardboard will break down if saturated too much.

best advice i can give you is just take your time. a second set of hands is always a good idea, but i did the headliner on my 50 by myself. just takes a little more articulation and a little more profanity!

i think it was about 10% but as stated above you don't want to get it too wet. I plan to lay mine out flat and hold down with heavy object untill it gets the "roll" out and think sprinkle lightly as needed.

80% ammonia and 20% water. Use a spray bottle like a Windex bottle and spray the back side of the headliner lightly...just enough to dampen, not soak

I have always been told to use 50/50 but I guess climate would need to be considered, you may want to get more in the corners (or more of the bent area) and little in the smaller bends. and only the backside.
as Texaholic2000 says you only need to dampen and don't get it drippen.