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Symptom: your aerial fails to travel down
anymore, or maybe fails to venture in any direction. But the motor still works. Cause: The plastic toothed belt that wraps around the drum that is attached to the aerial winder motor and your aerial mast has broken. This disconnects the motor from the aerial mast. Hence there is no more movement from your once dynamic and extendable shaft. (Ouch. Let's fix that quickly...) Use these pics in conjunction with Bay
13's helpful instructions to replace the mast.
An initial note: you can probably do most of this in car without doing what I did below. But I wanted to see how it all went together and wanted to clean it properly, and it is quite easy to take it apart as long as you pay heed to where it all goes so that you can reassemble it properly.
So assuming you have time to kill and like investigating your car, the info below might be useful. Disconnect the whole power antenna assembly from the body. This requires an electrical unplugging and a removal of the small run-off pipe from the body of the car; but the pipe can stay on the antenna assembly.
Note carefully how it all goes together
before you pull it apart.
I took mine part totally to clean it
right up and then replaced all the lube with dry graphite powdered lubricant.
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