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| skirlin | My antenna motor fell out... | ||
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My antenna motor fell out while backing up to leave for lunch. I had plans to pickup an antenna mast repair kit to replace the broke antenna...don't need it now. I was backing up and felt the thump as I rolled over something
 . There just happened to be a truck driver walking by and told me my motor just fell out, ripped out the wiring as well. He found it rather funny , I was torn between embarrassment and anger . With my FSM and the info on guru I will be ok. Luckily I usually listen to cd's. But it is almost 70 F out, the tops off, and it's all good.  |
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Posted on: 2008/4/17 21:14
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| CentralCoaster | Re: My antenna motor fell out... | ||
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I did the same, bottomed out on a bad road and it snapped the upper plastic nut off and fell out. It was at least hanging by the ground strap.
What year? I had such a hard time finding an exact replacement when the gears finally stripped out that I resorted to cannibalizing part of the old one to make it work. |
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Posted on: 2008/4/17 23:22
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| skirlin | Re: My antenna motor fell out... | ||
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1992. I called Corvette Central but their computers are down and they couldn't help. I'll try again tomorrow morning, I was planning on a trip there tomorrow for shocks (Hmmm...bounce bounce). Hopefully it will be fixed. They didn't use the same one for all vette's?
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Posted on: 2008/4/18 1:15
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| C4forlife | Re: My antenna motor fell out... | ||
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I got so tired of mine about two and a half years ago shaved the antenna hole. Connected it to a small straight antenna under the carpet.
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Posted on: 2008/4/18 3:00
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| CentralCoaster | Re: My antenna motor fell out... | ||
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How's the reception? I was considering that too |
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Posted on: 2008/4/18 7:30
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| JonnyAngle | Re: My antenna motor fell out... | ||
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I went to best buy and bought a new universal power antenna. Then i spliced in the antenna wire but never hooked up the power leads. It works great and is fabricated so it doesn't bounce around. I think it was $60. Buying OEM seems too spendy to me.
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| pappyfreebird | Re: My antenna motor fell out... | ||
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mine is unhooked,,,but radio is fine in my parts ,,,lucky me i ain werried bout that fuggan ,,,dont think they should flip up n down evo time turn on tunes ,,,id make a remote somehow
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Posted on: 2008/4/18 18:29
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| C4forlife | Re: My antenna motor fell out... | ||
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Works a little bit better actually since you don't pick up inteference from the antenna moving the small amount it does in the wind. At one point i just made the cable function as the antenna by bending the inner part of the plug to touch the outer and even that worked well too. |
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