[Vwdiesel] Headliner repair, vacuum pump working

[Gary Shea]

Loren, did you actually re-glue some ribs to the roof?  I take it you
would have told me if you remembered what the correct glue is for the
ribs.  The Liquid Nails reference was a joke...

Do you recommend attempting to get the glue from the dealer, or trying
some kind of 'glue specialist'?  I have never looked for a 'glue
specialist', seems like a cool niche!  If I can't find any better
recommendation, I might try PC-7, I used it to fix a 1/2" hole in the
side of the transmission... smeared a bunch of PC-7 on some window
screen and slapped it over the hole.  Still there 2 years later!

I seem to be lucky, no puckers in the roof... but the braces are definitely
sagging!

        Gary

On Tue, 1 Jun 2004, at 23:03 [-0400], LBaird119 at aol.com (LBaird119 at aol.com)...:

> The ribs on my car are a good
> 1/4 - 1/2 inch from the roof at this point, so I doubt that gluing is
> likely to work again.  Two questions: what have you folks done about the
> ribs?  What kind of glue would y'all recommend for regluing the ceiling
> insulation where it's starting to fall off.  The old stuff looks kinda
> like Liquid Nails :)
> 
> 
>   The ribs will work their way most of the way up with a bit of propping and 
> pounding.  You'll need to use a ball peen hammer in the outer radii as you 
> push up.  I was able to get one withing almost 1/8" the other still less than 
> 
> 1/4".  A couple of 2 X 4's and some wedges and viola!  You just need the 
> correct glue.  There IS a correct glue for the metal to metal and Liquid 
> Nails isn't it.  It works for a couple weeks but that's it.  There's likely a 
> 
> "correct" glue for the padding too.  Probably a spray on contact adhesive.
> It has to withstand quite a bit of heat and many glues get really brittle 
> from extended heat.
> 
>   Did your roof get little puckers from the sagging cross braces?  Mine did 
> as well as a couple others I checked over.
>      Loren
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