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| | | | Joined: Aug 2012 Posts: 338 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Aug 2012 Posts: 338 | I have put in about 2500 hours on this beast so far and must say I have not lost my temper until installing this headliner.
My goodness, whomever thought of this cheap cardboard headliner at gmc, I hope they made him install them all. At least that way he had 35 years of misery for a dumb idea.
Cardboard must have been cutting edge in1953
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| | | | | Joined: May 2007 Posts: 48 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: May 2007 Posts: 48 | Crap! I'm going to have to replace mine. I hope the 48 isn't as difficult?
jose | | | | | Joined: Aug 2012 Posts: 338 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Aug 2012 Posts: 338 | Had I put it up before the weatherstripping I think I would have been better off
will need to order a new one and give it another go. The first one ended up looking like a three year old wrapped chritsmas gift thrown from a Fedex truck.
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| | | | | Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 9,671 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 9,671 | You can bet your life on it, they didn't spend much time
installing the headliners in these trucks on the production
line.
Sounds like you've arrived at the correct solution, that is, the
headliner was installed before the windlace at the factory.
Almost everyone tries to put them in with the old windlace
still in place or after they have installed the new one and then
they find it's a real pain in the ars.
Denny Graham
Sandwich, IL
Denny G
Sandwich, IL
| | | | | Joined: Aug 2012 Posts: 338 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Aug 2012 Posts: 338 | At least I only need to pull back a small section of windlace | | | | | Joined: Mar 2010 Posts: 10,272 Renaissance Man | | Renaissance Man Joined: Mar 2010 Posts: 10,272 | I wonder if they were preformed before installation at the factory. I don't care how many of these flat ones somebody like us have put in, each and every one sucks! I can't imagine a guy on an assembly line battling these flat ones all day long without going postal.
1952 5-window - return to "as built" condition | 1950 3100 with a 235 and a T-5 transmission
| | | | | Joined: Nov 2012 Posts: 543 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Nov 2012 Posts: 543 | Mine was OK but recently popped out of the center rib...dunno how to get it back in place... What a chincey way to build a truck ! | | | | | Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 4,215 Moderator | | Moderator Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 4,215 | I put mine in about a month ago. I was prepared for a long ordeal but it came together very well. From start to finish was maybe 30 minutes, everything fit like a charm. I don`t have the windlace in yet, sounds like that got in the way. | | | | | Joined: Mar 2010 Posts: 10,272 Renaissance Man | | Renaissance Man Joined: Mar 2010 Posts: 10,272 | Congratulations 53 Panel. Did you put the headliner in a panel or a pickup? Do you have any tips to share on how to do this task that so many of us have so much trouble? How do you keep the two pieces to stay in the floating center support? How do you keep from having gaps at various spots around the perimeter?
1952 5-window - return to "as built" condition | 1950 3100 with a 235 and a T-5 transmission
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