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Old Jun 25, 2011 | 04:52 PM
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It wasn't difficult just, tedious. I had the best luck with Sprayway #87 contact cement. One thing the instructions didn't include that I wish I would have done is leave about 2 or 3 inches in the front to fold over and glue to the top. It will give you a really nice front edge. It will also be stronger bc, that is the only edge without trim to hold it.
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Old Jun 25, 2011 | 06:57 PM
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Does your cab heat up more with the bed liner?
Not that I've been able to tell

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Old Jun 26, 2011 | 03:41 PM
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Not that I've been able to tell

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Haha cool, it might get real hot when it gets like 110 down here
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The only way it gets hot is when I leave the windows up during work on these 90 degree days. Then its a damn sauna!

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Originally Posted by illicit
Took mine off, stripped everything off, then I sprayed it with the bedliner in a can.. I think it loooks sweet..
Can you post a pic? Thinking about doing this with mine.

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you need headliner glue,its heat and cold resistant.
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you need headliner glue,its heat and cold resistant.
I spray that adhesive glue on there but it just keeps falling down. It's the foam stuff behind it that's screwed up
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I took the whole thing down, ripped the crappy fabric off and used my vacuum cleaner to get the old foam off, it worked great. I went to the fabric store and bought canvas material and used 3M heavy duty adhesive to glue it up. Make sure you leave about 2 inches over the ends so you can fold it over the backside and glue it. The whole deal cost me about $25 and it's holding strong...
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Old Jun 28, 2011 | 01:46 PM
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I took the whole thing down, ripped the crappy fabric off and used my vacuum cleaner to get the old foam off, it worked great. I went to the fabric store and bought canvas material and used 3M heavy duty adhesive to glue it up. Make sure you leave about 2 inches over the ends so you can fold it over the backside and glue it. The whole deal cost me about $25 and it's holding strong...
What did you glue the canvas to?
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Originally Posted by JGary
I spray that adhesive glue on there but it just keeps falling down. It's the foam stuff behind it that's screwed up
I did that for a while before I started looking on this forum. The $10 spray adhesive from autozone lasts about a week and then it falls back down. the only real way to do it is to sand down the headboard and use 3M adhesive to put new fabric on.
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Old Jun 28, 2011 | 02:17 PM
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Originally Posted by JGary

What did you glue the canvas to?
You have to reuse the flimsy fiberglass headliner that's in there...have you taken it out?
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Old Jun 28, 2011 | 08:52 PM
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Originally Posted by illicit
Took mine off, stripped everything off, then I sprayed it with the bedliner in a can.. I think it loooks sweet..
When you say you took yours off, do you mean the whole headliner or just the fabric that had fell off? Do you have any pics?
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Old Jun 29, 2011 | 12:20 AM
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Originally Posted by CattyXJ

You have to reuse the flimsy fiberglass headliner that's in there...have you taken it out?
No, that's why my headliner won't stick cuz that fiberglass stuff is crap
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i am curious as to what is up there after you remove the liner support ?...is it metal ? is it painted ?
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Originally Posted by JGary

No, that's why my headliner won't stick cuz that fiberglass stuff is crap
If you don't take the headliner out, clean it off and re-glue new material to it there's no point. It will keep falling down. Get a phillips head screwdriver, remove the trim pieces from the sides and back, then pull the headliner and get to work. There's no other way around it.
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