Suggestions for replacing Suburban Headliner
I have a 72 Suburban and the head liner is shot. I would like any suggestions / pictures of how you guys did yours and what materials you used. Thanks.
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Welcome to the board.
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Several threads here on this in the burb section ... try a search, you will find some cool ideas.
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Welcome to the board!
Here is what I did for my burb headliner. http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=410459 Not totally in love with it, but it's better than nothing. Still open to better ideas on material to use, but what I used worked pretty good. Oh, and put up some pics of your burb! Us burb folks are even more nosey than the PU crowd, since there are not that many burbs on the road along with us burb lovers out there. |
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I used the shower surround material also. The brand I used was from Marvin's Building Materials. The brand at Lowe's was too stiff. This kind was easy to cut and bend. Could make real tight bends with heat if needed. I used the same material and made side panels. Used a product called "bull dog", an adhesion promoter and painted them. I used the original Suburban headliner ribs and edge rails. See what you think....
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Thanks for the pics. Looks great! |
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Not to steal the post but highlander how did you do the side panels?
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Ole Red....sent you a PM.
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I used original panels and crossbars that I bought off the parts board here. My Burb never had a headliner, so I needed the header front, rear, and side brackets. The old stuff is very brittle.
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Here's mine although out of a 91' burban, but i had a guy down the road from my dads shop who's been doing interiors forever redo them, he used a spray glue i think and i picked the color of the material it was 40$ for both halves. just a thought ask some interior people if you can
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im not sure if a newer one will fit mines held by a middle bar and the rest gets held in by the top trim and I haven't got the front in because I gotta scoot the back piece back and that's hard to do alone
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I need to do the head liner on my 72 burb too. I see that all of you have a screw in the middle between each rib. What are you screwing in to? do you run strips of wood first?
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The screw goes into the metal roof reinforcement cross bars. The metal headliner crossbars do not go in the same place as the roof reinforcement cross pieces. They are held up/hung by one screw on each end at the panel trim side piece above the side windows.
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i see. that makes sense. thanks for the info. i need to find a set of ribs now.
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Mine is made of Luan and covered with modern headliner fabric (available at any Joann fabrics for about 7 bucks a yard). It really quiets things down with fabric up there to absorb some sound.
By using the Luan (a form of panel board available at Lowes), you have a more solid surface to get custom with, meaning you can actually mount stuff in your headliner. I got rid of the front and rear (metal) rail supports and just use the two side rails to hold the headliner up. The Luan isnt flexible enough to make the shape bends, but it will hold its own radius with no problems. I asked a custom shop what they were building headliners out of and they gave me that idea as a very affordable option. I built a overhead center console with a drop down section for my stereo unit. It also has LED dome lights and a 12.1" flip down TV/DVD combo. Needless to say... I wasn't going for the "stock appearance". But, this is my daily driver and I wanted it to be practical (I have 3 kids.) Behind the 2nd row of seats, there is two 6x9 speakers built into the headliner, and at the rear doors, there is two 5 1/4" speakers built into the headliner. All said and done, I have about $400 bucks in my headliner (including the flip down TV/DVD -$50 on ebay) I need to take some better, more updated pics, I took these with my phone the day I was installing it in back over the summer. But, this gives you the idea. http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/c.../interior2.jpg http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/c.../interior1.jpg http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/c.../interior5.jpg |
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looks like 2002-2009 suburban or tahoe seats with the integrated seatbelts.
The luan came out great. I would love to see more of these pics.... |
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Wish you had some pics of the building process & how it's mounted to the truck. That really looks nice & practical for a DD. Thanks for sharing. |
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Jeffg1010 that headliner is sick! I love it. I like that because it gives you a spot for speakers
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