[Shotimes] Power Antenna repair revisited

[Carl Prochilo]

Wow, you made me remember stuff I didn't care much about.  Two things I
remember fairly vividly.  When I was up in the NE during freezing rain,
the mast would get a coat of ice, and when retracting the antenna, you
would get a cool looking tube of ice that would fall away.  The worse
problem was when all the crud spray from cars would muck up the antenna
enough to the point where it would clog up and not be able to fully
retract.  That's when I would first clean the dirt away, and then spray a
cloth with WD40 and wipe down the antenna; that would get it going again
just fine.
-- 
Cheers,
Carl Prochilo
1992 Ultra Red Crimson

Ryan J Pasch said:
> I rebuilt my antenna last year, just took out the old mast and
> installed a new one. I purchased mine from ford. It was a good price,
> probably due to volume sales. I usually run into problems in the winter
> when it gets frozen :/
>
> Ryan J Pasch
> SHOCAGO President
> www.SHOCAGO.com
> 1994 Opal Frost MTX
> Shoman594@hotmail.com
>
>> Had repaired the antenna on my son's 95 about 6 months ago and just
>> recently it broke again.  I attribute the problem to the fact I didn't
>> take the time to open up the cable assembly inside the quarterpanel to
>> retrieve the broken piece left over from the initial failure.  You
> may be
>> tricked by the length of cable left over when you remove the old
> mast, but
>> if the antenna fails to fully retract and there is no other visible
>> problem, it's most likely the plastic cable inside the mast has
> snapped.
>> When I opened up the casing, I found two 8 inch segments inside.
> Cleaned
>> everything back up, reassembled and everything is good again.  A good
>> write-up is on SHOTIMES website and was provided by Brian Peters (is
> he
>> still around?).
>>
>> The other type of repair that would not require opening up the power
>> antenna casing is if you bent the mast by accident say by entering the
>> garage before the door has fully opened.  This will usually not cause
> the
>> plastic geared cable to snap, so you can remove the broken antenna
> without
>> leaving any residual pieces in the motor assembly.
>>
>> If you find a parts wholesaler, the replacement mast cost I found
> locally
>> was $36.  AZ has one listed on their website for $40.
>> --
>> Cheers,
>> Carl Prochilo
>> 1992 Ultra Red Crimson
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>
> Ryan J Pasch
> -SHOCAGO President-
> www.SHOCAGO.com
> 1994 Opal Frost MTX
> Shoman594@hotmail.com
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