Headliner Bow order? • The Dodge Challenger Message Board

by **jauch** » 04 Mar 2009 14:18

I need a little nudge in the right direction on the 4-bow order in a 72 challenger, anyone recently done a headliner install?

thanks

by **dave-r** » 04 Mar 2009 14:58

Yeah but I labled them all first and they are fitted now which is no help to you!

I would try fitting them without the liner. That way you should be able to work out which length goes where.

by **jauch** » 04 Mar 2009 17:10

bad thing is that the headliner and all the bows were not in the car, just found a set of bows on ebay, so i'm starting from scratch. thanks

by **Moparman1972** » 04 Mar 2009 17:18

Could you post up what length bows go where when you figure it out?

I just recieved my headliner and will be putting it in soon as well.

by **jauch** » 16 Mar 2009 17:05

The install wasn't too bad, the two same size smaller bows up front, the next size bow in the middle and the long bow in back... did the install myself, main help was i bought about 20 spring clamps from home depot to hold the liner in place around the edges as i went around making it tight. good luck

by **Goldenblack440** » 23 Mar 2009 9:27

The bows you bought should be colour coded (red, green orange, pink, black etc), although good luck finding where the colours correspond to. Maybe the service manual? I always thought they were colour coded as they were all different lengths. My Challnegrs are. BUt when i pulled my 68 Dodge Dart headlining out i found the 5 bows were all the same length but were still colour coded! Then someone told me that they are spring steel are are all different TENSIONS! So it just goes to show that we take so much on these cars for granted, but actually there is so much design that goes into them that we forget about.

tell me if your bows have colour coding on the ends and i will tell you the positions of my Dart bow, which i labelled. I don't see why A body and E body would not be the same codes.

by **Goldenblack440** » 23 Mar 2009 9:30

sorry, just saw that you have already put it in! Oh well, that was a waste of a post.

I paid a fellow $200 to put my new Year One headliner in. I think i will have a go at my Dart one myself and save some $$, if you think it is not too difficult.