mostafa3k

Is this an easy task?

I'm thinking of getting one of these for my Trans Am.

http://www.pfyc.com/store/merchant.m...ory_Code=CMEXT

The power antenna motor on my car has crapped out and I want to replace with a shorty. I need to know if these will mount straight up, or if i have to buy extra parts.

uLs1a

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I just got mine from SS Inserts. It was about $40 shipped and its a black 8"

SleeperZzZ28

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I made my antenna shorter but I didnt have a power antenna to begin with. I pulled the black ball off the tip with pliers,then cut the antenna to the desired length and put the ball back on. It took about 10 minutes and looks a lot better

LawmanSS

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I have this one, too...nice piece.

Lithium

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Do you guys think the chrome one would look good?

LawmanSS

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Hmmm...I guess it would depend on the rest of your exterior mods...do you have any other chrome goodies on the car? If so, it may tie in nicely...otherwise, it would just seem out of place...just my .02.

Lithium

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Yeah that was what I was thinking as well... thanks.

mostafa3k

yet again... what else must i buy if im replacing a power antenna?

LawmanSS

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I would guess that you would need a fixed mast antenna base from a Camaro to start...you need the base to screw the shortie into...I'm showing the following part numbers in my manual (double check through dealer):

10298264 - 98-02 RDO ANT Bezel, low-gloss
10425534 - 98-02 BRACKET, RDO ANT, fixed-mast
12186133 - 98-02 CABLE, RDO ANT, fixed-mast (F87 coupe)

AronZ28

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Come on man, you gotta do it all ghetto style. Save your money for go fast mods. On my old Regal, the motor took a dump with the antenna stuck down. Just take that thing apart and pull the antenna up out of its hole. Then clip the wire for the motor and you're good to go.

HFLDtA

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2001FireBird

Does the shorty retract with the motor too? or is it always standing up?

LawmanSS

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The shorty I bought from SS inserts is for a fixed mast base...I'm not sure how you could adapt it to a power base...at least this particular brand/model...which, BTW, is from Kirban Performance Products.

mostafa3k

There's three wires going into the motor... Green, orange, black. Which one is the one for power?

I'll disable it for now until i figure out what to do with it.

GM Muscle

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I'll trade you my fixed mast unit for your broken power antenna assembly if your intrested.

AronZ28

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On my Regal, I figured that out by looking at the back of the head unit.

EDIT: Is there a seperate fuse for the power antenna motor you could pull? Hopefully you'll still get a signal and disable the motor.

sumdumbum

I put a power antenna (one from a bird) on my '02 Camaro - you'll need the mast (from that site) and the base thingy (not sure how to describe it). It has the number 10425534 stamped on it (see pics here: http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~gtg697y/temp/antenna/ ).

I'd imagine those two parts are the only one's you'd need.

Pretty simple to replace (easier than putting a power antenna into a non-power car). All you'd have to do is take off the cover where the spare is, take out spare to get to everything, locate the power antenna base (black thing that's about 5"x3"x10" if memory serves correctly with a tube and wires coming out of it). Unplug the wires from it, disconnect the tube (or cut), unscrew it from the quarterpanel, pull it out of the car. To put camaro base in, insert camaro base where power base was (might help to plug the thick black [signal] wire into the base first - I remeber it was hard to get to otherwise), put that nut back on to bolt it back. You might want to do something about the tube that should be running out the bottom of your car (was on the power antenna to drain water that got into the unit). I had a website that had a writeup to install the power antenna - if I can find it again, I'll post it up so you can see what I'm talking about.

edit: found the site - http://www.blackcamaro.com/antenna.htm

bootleg<detroit>

I got the aluminum billet one,I love it,its the perfect hight...I just dont know where to get the aluminum base from...do you??help??

mostafa3k

I figure there should be. But I've figured out it's the orange wire i must cut. I'd rather pull the fuse than butcher anything yet.

sumdumbum

I don't see why you can't just unplug the wire harness to the antenna while it's up. There should be a group of 3 wires coming out of the antenna that go into a plug. This may be in a bundle of wires like car makers like to do (in those black tubes), but just follow the group of 3 wires and there'll be a plug. If you unplug that, it no longer has power so I would think it would stay up.

The radio signal goes through a separate wire, so unpluging that group of three smaller wires won't cut the signal.