pettus253 Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 I ordered new headliner material (multicam). I took my headliner out and its pretty flimsy. Any way to reinforce it? What have ya'll done to fix it? I was thinking about getting some kind of cloth and spray gluing it on both sides and then apply the actual material. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pettus253 Posted July 17, 2014 Author Share Posted July 17, 2014 I've seen other posts for replacing the headliner completely...but I'm not trying to go that route. Should I mix up some resin and add a layer or two of new fiber glass? Also...for whatever reason the PO installed a damn sun/moon roof. After it leaked for obvious reasons...he siliconed the crap out of it. I removed the sun/moon roof and am now left with a hole in the headliner. I was thinking about cutting a section out of another headliner, weather it be an xj or whatever, to size and glassing it in, or any other suggestions... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeep Driver Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 Yes, I would fill in the hole with another headliner. I would also glass the backside, not the interior side. Make sure it is not twisted or out of shape when you glass it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave92cherokee Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 You can definitely coat it in fiberglass resin which will stiffen it up for sure, as for patching the hole you can use a piece from another headliner and then glass the front and back just to make sure it's stiff and smoothed out. When I get ready to do the headliner in the 4dr I'm definitely going to have to coat it front and back with resin to smooth it out and stiffen it up as it's been tossed around and bent up and wrinkled up many times. Thankfully when it was in the xj before i pulled it I put some camo fabric on it which will give a good base for the resin to soak into for stiffening up and smoothing out. Go to NAXJA and search thread titles for headliner and there are alot of people with writeups and threads for glassing a headliner to look through. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pettus253 Posted July 17, 2014 Author Share Posted July 17, 2014 So I was taking my headliner out of the garage and what can go wrong will go wrong.... Tripped over a power cord and fell with the headliner, ripping and bending it.... Does anyone know if the guy who does the MJ headliners will sell one without the material already attached? I spent a good chunk of change on the material already. And what is the link to the headliner site? Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave92cherokee Posted July 18, 2014 Share Posted July 18, 2014 http://www.smsheadliners.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pettus253 Posted July 29, 2014 Author Share Posted July 29, 2014 Well I had to make due with what I had. Took an old piece of headliner and filled the hole where the sunroof was. Found a console out of a Tahoe that fits quite nicely too and will add good source of light and storage. Also ordered visor covers to match. I am putting new liner on an XJ sound bar and will put that under the rear window, since the interior trim piece was MIA when I got my truck. The headliner isn't perfect BUT it's for a future trail rig, and I didn't have a perfect starting point either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave92cherokee Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 Looks pretty good, especially for camo material as that stuff doesn't like to stretch out to fill in the curves in the headliner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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