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Originally Posted by Maynard
Hey, I bet your name is Brandon. That's the exact interior on my 1984 K2500. And I need to re-do the headliner, so let me ask you a few questions. Did you do the work yourself?
As I explore the Suburban, I'm impressed with the design quality. Build quality seems typical of '80s Detroit product, in that the body panels aren't as tight a fit as we see later. To make a comparison of design, I just replaced the headliner in my DD, a 1999 Nissan Frontier. The factory headliner fabric was backed with what looked like maybe 1/4" foam; could be 3/16", which I'm finding is common. The Suburban headliner board has foam on the back side that faces the roof, then another 1/2" foam on the back of the fabric that's attached to the board. Amazing.
My question is whether your rig had the same 1/2" foam and were you able to find it to use for the replacement or did you use another product. An upholstery supply shop told me they don't have 1/2", but I could glue a 1/4" sheet of foam to the 3/16" foam backed headliner they sell. I don't find 1/2" anywhere on the 'net, so I'm thinking of doing it that way, and am interested in what you did, especially if you know where to get 1/2" backed
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Sorry when I got the truck headliner was shot. Only orange dust and some fabric, so I couldn't tell you what was there in the first place, and I paid a shop to do the new one, so I'm not sure what they used, again sorry.