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What do you mean foam part? I scraped all the glue off the headliner with a vinyl brush. There are a couple cracks in it that I want to patch up. I have been recycling used dryer sheets for that very day. I am finishing it now. I will post pics when its all said and done
I have been saving dryer sheets (softener sheets) for the repair on my fiberglass hatch (for the camper build) for a long time. I think it will work better for your headliner than the fiberglass sheets I used on my headliner board when I did mine. I wish I knew about using them for that purpose before.
Last edited by JandDGreens; 03-18-2017 at 10:06 AM.
This counts as today since it was super early in the morning. The women went out dancing, the men went wheelin. Finally found a decent spot to flex out the Jeep. I found a deeper trench but it was too steep of a hill to stop and take pictures. The coils drop out of the buckets about 5" haha. You can see it in the last picture.
What is that stuff above the cloth head liner? I have glued various areas of my saggy cloth headliner up with contact cement several times. I never really explored the upper material but it seems like a foam insulation liner for the metal roof to me.
If it's not that - what is it?
What / how are the dyer sheets used in the way you mean?
PHM
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Originally Posted by Guywitha92
What do you mean foam part? I scraped all the glue off the headliner with a vinyl brush. There are a couple cracks in it that I want to patch up. I have been recycling used dryer sheets for that very day. I am finishing it now. I will post pics when its all said and done
This counts as today since it was super early in the morning. The women went out dancing, the men went wheelin. Finally found a decent spot to flex out the Jeep. I found a deeper trench but it was too steep of a hill to stop and take pictures. The coils drop out of the buckets about 5" haha. You can see it in the last picture.
Haven't been playing with my XJ in a while because I've been messing with flipper vehicles, but yesterday and today I...
Pulled it out of the grass... started and drove like it'd just been yesterday
Checked all the lubricants and fluids... coolant still green, bonus!
Cleaned & vacuumed it out
Washed it
Since the sound deadener I installed last year has stayed put, I installed the new-from-the-salvage yard headliner I bought for it last year sometime (My old backing was garbage)
Finally installed my functional and re-worked overhead console... thermometer is a little off, reads -12 degrees while it's 80 outside. I'm blaming the metric system. Compass works good.
Finally swapped over my almost new 31x10.50 Geolandar ATs from my other not-being-used-right-now pickup... looks so much better and rides/drives much nicer... old, hard dry-rotted (they were free) BFGs are gone.
Greased all the new front end stuff since I realized I still hadn't done it since I installed the lift
Aimed my new H4 headlight housings... man, mid-2016 me left a lot of loose ends hanging before he got involved with other stuff!
What is that stuff above the cloth head liner? I have glued various areas of my saggy cloth headliner up with contact cement several times. I never really explored the upper material but it seems like a foam insulation liner for the metal roof to me.
If it's not that - what is it?
What / how are the dyer sheets used in the way you mean?
PHM
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The foam stuff is part of the original headliner. Its a foam backing and your headliner pulls apart from that foam backing and that's why you get sagging and the foam is left. You have to use something to scrape the foam off before you attach new material. The dryer sheets are used as fiberglass matt with the fiberglass resin to patch holes/strengthen the headliner board where its cracked or broken.
I have been saving dryer sheets (softener sheets) for the repair on my fiberglass hatch (for the camper build) for a long time. I think it will work better for your headliner than the fiberglass sheets I used on my headliner board when I did mine. I wish I knew about using them for that purpose before.
They seem to work quite well. I hope they hold up. Its my first time doing fiberglass repair
So the dryer sheets are the matrix for the resin? Instead of fiberglass cloth? What is the benefit to specifically using dryer sheets?
What seems easier to me would be to just use old tee shirts or something about like that. Cotton wets the easiest. Also; I find clear epoxies easier and stronger than polyester resin.
Something that you may find superior is Gluvit. I build an entire chassis out of it and canvas tarps one time. <g>
PHM
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Originally Posted by JandDGreens
I have been saving dryer sheets (softener sheets) for the repair on my fiberglass hatch (for the camper build) for a long time. I think it will work better for your headliner than the fiberglass sheets I used on my headliner board when I did mine. I wish I knew about using them for that purpose before.
The original new headlight seller was dragging his feet about paying the return shipping costs so I ordered another set of new headlights from someone else on Amazon. They arrived yesterday and I installed them right before sundown. These just popped right onto the adjuster ball-ends in the standard way.
After it got dark I adjusted them on the garage door and then drove around some dark streets tweaking them a bit. The last house had a fire in the front yard with little kids dancing around it and squealing like little pigs. The people there asked me what I was doing, I laughed and told them, then I had a beer by their fire pit and promised to come back again soon.
Today I'm troubleshooting the power window switch and looking for some of the door panel and door latch screws.
Is the issue that you can control the windows from the driver door switches only? If so, there's a simple work around - a jumper to bypass the lockout. It's pretty well documented with pics on this site and others.
03-18-2017, 10:03 AM
