It is the foam disintegrating that causes it to droop in the first place.

 

Very helpful thread. Thanks for the write-up and photos. I have a Crew Cab that may need this one day. Looks simple enough to do. Reps sent.

 

Thanks no problem!!

 

Awesome job Matt!

 

Thankyou sir!

 

Very helpful, Reps sent as well.... I have no headliner OR the cardboard, just metal. Have you had to deal with that if so how? have noticed last post was over a year ago so perhaps too old a thread to get an answer?

 

The only thing I can suggest to you is try looking through the junkyards. If you can obtain one or two that are in decent shape, you should be able to make a template quite easily.

Who knows? You might get lucky and find a replacement for your project.

I am subscribed to this thread, so I am notified when a new post is made. Keep the questions coming. Maybe the thread will be resurrected and more information will follow.

 

Yeah bummer me too. My 89 Ranger crew cab ceiling is all torn up. I bought the fabric and glue, but I can see metal behind it. I don't think there's any cardboard back there. Sigh. Guess I'll call some junk yards and hope one fits.

Great write up!

 

I had another thought about this.

Have either of you tried LMCtruck.com? This is from a quick search for your '89 Ranger:

Truck Parts and Truck Accessories

KRnoir, you didn't mention your vehicle info, but you might want to give LMCtruck a try. You never know. You folks might find something you didn't know you needed.

Good luck. Let us know what you find. Have either of you created a "Build Thread" or similar for your projects?

 

the holes that are torn up in my headliner, I can poke through to the metal ceiling - no cardboard - but there is a thin layer of a thicker fabric. Then around the visors towards the front it's definitely molded, so there has to be something more substantial back there. I guess I'll just have take the molding etc. off and see what comes down.


So all that 1/4 "fiberglass" type foam backing behind the fabric - when I take off - ideally shouldn't something else go back there besides just fabric? Not that I care too much but it's definitely gonna be thinner and less sound absorbent?

 

The foam comes attached to the headliner material....

 

Yeah, the backerboard helps keep the material up there and out of the way. You could always take the old one out carefully, and try to trace a new backerboard. Some folks have done that for the Mustangs on one of the other sites I belong to for that interest.

I'll see if I can find the headliner project write-up and paste a link here for you. That way, you can review it to see if that would be something you want to attempt.

 

This is from a post from 2012:

"go to any sign shop and ask for some coruplast (spelling?) it's corrugated plastic (much like cardboard) that is lightweight, fairly strong, and CHEAP. did mine with this over 2 years ago, and it's still holding up well."

Haven't found the one I was looking for, yet, but I'm still looking.

 

Just finished the headliner on my 84 Two yards of material from a local place, some spray adhesive, and about 2 hrs work. Still needs trimmed, but looks decent.
I used a material that didn't have a foam backer, just a white cloth type backer.

 

Looks good.