power antenna mast replacement

hji,

from miata.net is seem like replacing the mast isnt to bad...is that
correct?

btw, swmbo was driving and the snorkle for the s/c popped of yesterday
and gave her somre trouble...nothing major and the car did run so she
got to work...i now have a screw driver in the car

peter

You shouldn't talk about her like that! ;-)

Chris
99BBB

"peter" > wrote in message
...
> hji,
>
...i now have a screw driver in the car
>
> peter

peter wrote:
>
> hji,
>
> from miata.net is seem like replacing the mast isnt to bad...is that
> correct?

It's easy but the hard part is to feed the notched plastic band into the
take-up mechanism. I tried and tried but I couldn't do it by myself.
So I got my daughter to sit in the driver's seat and turn the radio on
and off while I fed the band in, and then it was easy. She turned the
radio on and the motor turned so that it would have pushed the plastic
band outward, which would have raised the antenna. Then I pushed the
notched plastic strip down into the opening, and then she turned the
radio off, and the gear inside caught the strip and pulled it into the
mechanism.

yrs jp

I did a mast replacement for my 1997, it's not difficult, but there are a
few tricks to know, you can't slide it into place like in the instructions,
you have to disassemble the drive unit to bend the tape(toothed for the
gear) past a guide wheel inside, then reassemble it like that. I was able
to accomplish it by putting the end in place, then reassembling, and having
the mount in place before applying power. Took me a little over 3 hours,
but most of it was figuring out a way to get it to go together again. If I
had to do it again, knowing what the issues are, it would probably be about
a 20 to 30 minute job.

"peter" > wrote in message
...
> hji,
>
> from miata.net is seem like replacing the mast isnt to bad...is that
> correct?
>
> btw, swmbo was driving and the snorkle for the s/c popped of yesterday
> and gave her somre trouble...nothing major and the car did run so she
> got to work...i now have a screw driver in the car
>
> peter