Grunt's Papaya HX Sandman 18v 308 4 speed Project

[Vombil]

they should call the colour Chameleon Papaya... so many different guises

[Grunt]

Very, VERY nice. Congrats

Thanks Wally

they should call the colour Chameleon Papaya... so many different guises

Agreed mate, I think digital cameras have problems processing orange so it always looks different.

[Grunt]

So Christmas was here and I was bored. I thought last major job was the headlining..... cant be that hard....?



The old head lining was nice and crusty at least all the bows and wires were there








The underside of the roof had been previously prepared with primer and cavity wax














Getting started



Before anyone cans me, I have never done this before, never seen it done so I dont know if this is the right way..... its my way

I started by installing the bows and wires and hanging the head lining in position





I found the centre of the head lining and temp held it to the windscreen bracket with clips. I was doing it by myself so I came up with a G clamp string system for the back to keep it tight.



I roughly installed it with bits of pinch weld clamps. Its pretty important here to make sure everything is central running down the centre of the van.





Looking from the back to the cabin with the cabin bow in position

In this picture you can also see a bunch of pressed spikes in the roof support I dont know if this is a Sandman only item as it holds the wire against the roof?



I started with the cabin area around the windscreen streching, moving creases around, takes a while, dont try this if you dont have patients



The marks on the head lining are only dust and were washed off when finished, they look horrific with the camera flach but were barely noticable in real like

This pic also shows pinch weld holding it to the screen bracket



Slowly getting there, also using the pinch weld around the door frame to lock it tight

[Grunt]

The cabin area mostly done, visors and mirror back in.... still needs a clean!





The wire attached to the roof bar



This is the read Headling attaching point. As you can seem most of the little teethare at an angle where they will not grab the head lining . Out came the scribe and each tooth was bent out...... there are so many to bend



The back roughed in, clips holding it





All stretched and ready for glue



All glued up around the rear rails and door frame using an upholstery contact glue

I will be rinning some pinch weld arpound the read rails to finish it off when it arrives







Before the final clean







So there go, if you are going to try this yourself the main things to remember, dont rush, it took me 1.5 days or so to do this and make sure you find the true centre or it just wont work