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I have installed 4 of these. Having the front seat out really helps. Also, when lifting the headliner into place, center the dome light hole in the headliner with the mount in the roof crossmember. Have the bolts ready that retain the shoulder belt of the seat belts. Once the headliner is pressed into place, install the seat belt bolts. These will hold the headliner in place while you install all of the remaining trim parts. Take the seat belt bolts out to slip the seat belt hanger into place, then reinstall the bolt. Do this one side at a time.
The front and rear window rubber gaskets will need to be peeled back with popsicle sticks to lay over the headliner. I used popsicle sticks to keep from scuffing the paint.
Finally, just for kicks, I put padding against the underside of the roof skin as a sound deadener.

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where did you get the abs headliner?

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I should have mentioned that 1974 was the first year that the A body cars came with 3 point seat belts! The lap belt cars would NOT have had any bolts there! I did install 3 point belts in a 73 Dart Sport that originally was a lap belt car. The anchor points were already there. maybe it was a mid or late year build. Regardless, if you have no seat belt bolt holes and do NOT intend to install them, the dome light base is adequate to hold the headliner in place, especially if you have the help from an additional person.
One final note....On one of my installs, I had to trim the headliner where it slips UNDER the windshield gasket. I tried to pry it under but it kept buckling until I shaved 1/4 inch all across the front. I mention this because I just read that yours is a "covered" unit. All mine were simply painted.

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I should have mentioned that 1974 was the first year that the A body cars came with 3 point seat belts! The lap belt cars would NOT have had any bolts there! I did install 3 point belts in a 73 Dart Sport that originally was a lap belt car. The anchor points were already there. maybe it was a mid or late year build. Regardless, if you have no seat belt bolt holes and do NOT intend to install them, the dome light base is adequate to hold the headliner in place, especially if you have the help from an additional person.
One final note....On one of my installs, I had to trim the headliner where it slips UNDER the windshield gasket. I tried to pry it under but it kept buckling until I shaved 1/4 inch all across the front. I mention this because I just read that yours is a "covered" unit. All mine were simply painted.

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Yeah ive been gone about 3 years or so. Got a bit off track and disgruntled with the old car scene...didnt really want to do the show thing...I found them rather..well BORING to be honest...and im not talking going to them to look..i still do and like that..im talking the register the car get there at 9-10am and stay there till 4PM stuff..cant stand doing that...I like to go, look for a bit talk for a bit then leave..1-2.5 hours TOPS(unless its a Carlisle size show) and thats all the guys in my club at the time did..since then ive just started going to cruise ins..staying long enough to see all the cars and chat then just going..thats much more fun. During that time I almost sold the car..just had other stuff I was into and doing(competitive shooting sports) and spending $$$ on..but thats worn off a bit and now im in the position to do both the car thing and the shooting thing on a more limited casual basis..just didnt have enough $$ for car parts AND new guns lol.

Went to Carlisle this year and that really got me back into the car scene so I bought this headliner and had saw Demon Sizzlers TQ for sale and got one to add to replace the Eddie 750 thats on the car now but is rather hard to start after the car sits a while...plus figured id try something new .

Now I keep trying to get this headliner in and I keep running into time problems like its almost dark(after painting everything last night and letting it fry by the time id have gotten to do this it was 730pm and I wanted more than a hour of sunlight to do it) and now as I started its raining (got ready to do it at 5pm tonight and noticed it was getting awful dark..the weather mans forecast of a 100% sunny and DRY day was wrong..we got rain from 5pm-630...so more delays lol.

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Good choice: Going with painted bumpers. The 73-76 Darts have larger bumpers than the same year Dusters did, and the paint hides the size somewhat.

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actually they are Fiberglass ones Shhhh ( still got the old originals at the inlaws house