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Toymods Club Treasurer
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Radio Electric Antenna trouble
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Fri, 12 August 2005 08:45
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The electric antenna on my Caldina sounds like it wants to keep on going up even at full extension.
It stops pushing upto 5 seconds after the antenna is fully extended.
It is the factory Toyota unit & I'm not going to replace it with a fixed one despite possibly finding a serious buyer for it.
Any helpful suggestions welcome.
Thanks
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Sydney
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February 2003
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Re: Radio Electric Antenna trouble
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Fri, 12 August 2005 08:52
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yes my old supra did this too, i just assumed it was normal...
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Toymods Club Treasurer
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Re: Radio Electric Antenna trouble
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Fri, 12 August 2005 09:06
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Mine's only started doing it the last 2 weeks.
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I Supported Toymods
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Sydney
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December 2002
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Re: Radio Electric Antenna trouble
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Sat, 13 August 2005 00:42
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You've probably lost a few teeth on the mast's ribbon, mine was like this for ages... it would go up to what I thought was normal height and just keep making a clicking sound.
Upon removing the mast (very easy to do) I discovered that the cable had snapped right down the bottom.
To remove the whole mast:
turn acc on to get the antenna to go up.
unscrew the silver locking cap
turn acc off to make the antenna go down.
then turn the acc on to make the antenna go up and bundy around to the antenna while its still going up and pull it to make the mast come out.
I bought an original toyota mast to replace mine at about $40-50 from memory... you can buy cheaper Airpro (sp?) ones for most models from repco, autobarn etc. for about $20
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I Supported Toymods
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Re: Radio Electric Antenna trouble
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Sat, 13 August 2005 00:43
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PS in my case because the cable had snapped I had to disassemble the whole motor... if yours just started and it always goes up and down by itself it probably hasn't snapped yet.
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Toymods Club Treasurer
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Sydney
Registered:
May 2002
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Re: Radio Electric Antenna trouble
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Sat, 13 August 2005 00:59
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Cheers Toobs, I thought it may have been something as simple as that because its not trying to over-extend by the same amount each time.
Time to visit Mr Toyota....
I hope it's only $50, Subaru Liberty ones are about $80-$90 
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Toymods Club Treasurer
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Sydney
Registered:
May 2002
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Re: Radio Electric Antenna trouble
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Sat, 13 August 2005 03:22
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| Toobs wrote on Sat, 13 August 2005 10:42 |
then turn the acc on to make the antenna go up and bundy around to the antenna while its still going up and pull it to make the mast come out.
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Bundy around it? What do you mean by that?
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