Fitting the inner roof on a Cab
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Fitting the inner roof on a Cab
This isn't the original roof, but does anyone have any suggestions on how to make it less … baggy?
Possible options are to punch some holes in it and cable-tie it tidily to the frame, or to get some white duct-tape and tape it (tidily again) to the frame upright?
Does the original roof have this problem?
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Last question … what are corner hanging straps??
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These give the slope shape at the back of the hood.
The headliner is wrapped around these, have a look and you'll see. Is the headliner secure at the centre rails and the rear rail?
These are stapled in to place there also.
Corner straps you can see the long wide straps in the diagram.
Also showing the corner plates that attatch to the car body.
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If you look at the piccy follow the big corner strap to its positio where it's connected to the frame corner.
There is a small length strap between the two frame sections the headliner has a sleeve in the corner which the strap passes through and is then fixed in place with screw and washer..
Sending you a pm to make it easier to explain.
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So tempted to remove the outer roof and get at it properly, but I won't. Almost back on the road now … down to the last few urgent jobs.
Still thinking about taping the liner to the frame upright though … anyone done this before??
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These usually deteriorate.
You would need to take these off in any event to get to the headliner anyway.
I wouldn't strap or fix the headliner anywhere than factory.
You run the risk of trapping the material in the frame damaging both.
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The way I install the headliner is to take the tie bar off, fit and glue it then cut it off on the flat of the frame.
Yours looks to be cut short and the glue didn't hold.
You can try to take the tie bar off, then 8 screws and the two corners 10 screws in all IIRC, carefully peel back the vinyl outerskin and pull stretch and try to re-glue it.
I think whoever installed it cut the outer skin even with the bar knicked the headliner as I Always trim the outer from the headliner out and use a piece of tape to keep blade from the headliner.
Give Chortle a shout.
You have to remove the outer skin, Padding and coverlet to hang a new headliner….
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Fitting the inner roof on a Cab
The hoods are left long at the front and once fitted and the clamping strip in place are trimmed off.
They’ve sliced through both hood and the headliner.
You’re issue is though if you try and pull the short bit forward you’ll go out of shape.
You can’t pull the whole thing forward as the 2 side pieces are riveted to the sides.
Other option is to undo headliner from the front and place some material behind the 2 cut areas to join them together.
Not likely to be pretty.
Or fit a new one.
Which brings its own issues.
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chortle said
Yep whoever fitted the hood is a doughnut.
You are being too kind to the fitter….. ID10T is more apt, or unable to follow Directions from you or I on the install guides….. which leads to RTFMsquared.
Drilling out the rivets to remove the strain may help with the re-alignment, and you would have to sew the material together along with a good glue and tape tape…. your right it may not look pretty… Which leads me back to my Original thought of using Snaps on the headliners to install it I figure with my last 3 layer install on my Blue Cabbie, that I will be DEAD long before I have to renew the top or the headliner.
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Regarding the headliner, I have an idea of fleeing my wrinkled front edge and then fitting a 15 strip of plastic and then screwing this with short self tappers. The new plastic strip would need to be back far enough so as not to interfere with the windscreen frame when closed.
Would something like this work?
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