antenna stays up 98 T/A

[Mad Mick]

My motorized radio antenna sticks up, won't go down...you can hear the motor working ...stripped gears ???

How much is a new one ?? anyone know ? Vendors ??

...everythings breaking !!

[Joe 1320]

Inside the antenna is a long, toothed ribbon. That is one gear per se, the other gear is in the motor. When either strips, you get what you've got. There are kits to repair both.

[Kevin - Blown 95 TA]

I put in a defeat switch so the antenna wouldn't go up every time I played a CD. With anything like that - it's only a matter of time before it quits working - so now it doesn't go up and down unless I have the switch on.

[Mixedpuppy]

How?

How do you install or get someone to install a defeat switch?

[Black97]

From what I have been reading, you have three wires going to the antenna. Two of them are power and one is the one that goes to the radio to get the signal when to operate the antenna.

Once you figure out which wire it is you can install a switch in between.

[dochidalgo]

Kevin.....(sorry)

...low electronic skills here (hope not IQ too...!)..Could you be too kind to tell me how to do the defeat switch procedure?, where did you purchase the switch and where did you locate it in the cockpit?...Thanks a lot in advance
Doc

[Black97]

Here's a nice write up done for Camaro's. May answer some questions.

http://www.blackcamaro.com/antenna.htm

[dochidalgo]

Thanks Black97 (Rene...I guess).
Doc