Aerial motor skipping

hondaman · Post by **hondaman** » Fri Jan 09, 2015 6:52 pm

I had a busted antenna when i bought my BB1 so i bought a BB4 motor and mast stupidly i didn't realise or remember they would be different and it had the half option on it, so ended up stripping both and putting the antenna of the BB4 into my BB1 motor, anyhoo..

The reason I mention this is, its actually pretty easy to strip and replace and /or grease the nylon cord mechanism, you can also buy replacement masts on the bay for aroud £20-25 which you can put into your old motor pretty easily if that helps

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Fri Jan 09, 2015 7:11 pm

You can use a half mast aerial in a full mast car, I did it on my old 2.3 4th gen. From memory, the half mast has a 3 pin connector instead of 2 pin on the full mast? So you just need to bugger about to make sure you pick up the right 2 pins on the half mast connector to give full mast.

like I say, that's from memory though (10 years ago) and without checking on the wiring diagrams, so don't shoot the messenger etc...

hondaman · Post by **hondaman** » Sat Jan 10, 2015 11:05 am

Cheers Wurley, I did this a few weeks ago now, the half mast had a black box fixed to the aerial, and didn't want to go full extension plugged in so i just swapped the masts over, and it works just dandy now

although reception can be a bit iffy at times on the radio especially on Absolute, but other stations seem ok, but i guess you can't win them all

h10ndr · Post by **h10ndr** » Tue Jan 20, 2015 7:34 pm

wurlycorner wrote:Does that work for the machine gun noise at the end of travel then Tim? I thought that was cause of worn teeth and needed a change of aerial? Result if not!

Well mine used to hammer / machine gun because it was stuck not at full extension. Once I lubed it up

it cured the machine gun noise and extended all the way. I never thought that the motor or gears might be the problem. Worked for me though..

ATR84 · Post by **ATR84** » Tue Jan 20, 2015 8:10 pm

Since this cold weather mine has fixed itself but I am sure it will be back. Although that does indicate that lubricant may help.

ATR84 · Post by **ATR84** » Thu Feb 19, 2015 12:57 pm

Before I take the boot lining out to do it, can the antenna's be disconnected from the boot area? I just want to stop mine moving at all for the time being.

Post by **indigolemon** » Thu Feb 19, 2015 2:12 pm

Yep - you can unplug the power lead from the antenna unit.