Antenna

[Shelly Harris]

With emory cloth and some sand paper I cleaned up the antenna. WOW... is it long enough? The mast rises and lowers freely by hand, but sad to say the motor only lifts it about 6" and stops. Doesn't do anything with switch for down. Not too hard to get a hand in there and connecting the vacuum lines. But theres a third long vac line that goes into the fender through the hole and down. A long one down into the fender and I'm wondering where it goes? It would be nice to get at that motor without unbolting the fender.

[Barry Wolk]

Not gonna happen. Trust me. I have the longest arms you've ever seen and I couldn't do it through the opening.:mad:

[Shelly Harris]

How about removing the passenger side heater core and fan... looks like you can get to it that way?

Also... the motor lifts the mast about a foot then stops, height doesn't hold and it drops down when under way... no motor down movement. Still think its the small disc thingy?

[Mad Scientist]

How about removing the passenger side heater core and fan... looks like you can get to it that way? Nope.

Also... the motor lifts the mast about a foot then stops, height doesn't hold and it drops down when under way... no motor down movement. Still think its the small disc thingy?

I had mine out to clean and check the core for leaks and no that will not give you access. Also you really do not what to take out the heater core unless you really have to, at the time I did it I had the engine out and was able to walk into the engine compartment to get at it and it was still a pain in the butt to do.

The fender has two mounting bolts at the bottom corner near the door. If you remove them you might be able to pull the fender out enough to get your hand in there. Also there is another mounting bolt on top behind the hinge for the hood that you might try loosening.

However before you do that I would check out the vacuum switch under the dash.;) If the antenna is going down all by itself it could be a leaky switch/valve.:)

The way I got my antenna out was I first removed the engine and exhaust system and was then able to reach my arm through the opening for the exhaust pipe and put a wrench onto the nut and screw holding the clamp. Naturally when I try to unscrew the nut the screw turned right along with it. There was literally no way to hold the screw and turn the nut at the same time. I wound up tie-wrapping a small die grinder to a length of threaded rod and ever so tediously ground the nut off of the screw.:eek:

Once the antenna was out dissembling, cleaning and putting it back together was not a problem.;)

[Barry Wolk]

You can not get the fender to move enough unless you take out all the bolts I spoke of. Trust me.