How do i get this in... - Honda Prelude Forum

Whitea207 · 02-08-2004, 07:48 PM

OK! how do u get the antenna mast through the hole to the exterior bc the lil knob at the top doesnt come off, and i cant figure out how to take the whole thing off the outside of the car. Anyone know??

lude_vtec · 02-08-2004, 07:56 PM

Are you talking about that metal nut that you can see the top on above the rubber trim piece? It requires a special wrench from Honda, but you should be able to use needlenose pliers or something in those grooves to twist it off.

Whitea207 · 02-08-2004, 08:02 PM

ok, i got that off... and i've got it all dissasembled, but i cant get the antenna mast, through the lil pipe, that has the antenna power plug on it, if that makes any sense

lude_vtec · 02-08-2004, 08:04 PM

Do you have the radio on and then have someone turn it off to make it feed the white strip through?

FullyLudedSi · 02-08-2004, 08:07 PM

so how did you take the old one off, broke it?

Whitea207 · 02-08-2004, 08:07 PM

im not even dealing with the motor yet, im just trying to get the mast to come through to the exterior

Whitea207 · 02-08-2004, 08:08 PM

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Originally posted by FullyLudedSi
so how did you take the old one off, broke it?

lol yea, it was really messed up, so i just cut the top off it.

Whitea207 · 02-08-2004, 08:12 PM

Is that lil plastic thing inside the pipe supposed to be in there?... thats the reason the mast wont go all the way through.

lude_vtec · 02-08-2004, 08:14 PM

Can't see the image

Whitea207 · 02-08-2004, 08:14 PM

thats weird i can

Whitea207 · 02-08-2004, 08:15 PM

lude_vtec · 02-08-2004, 08:16 PM

I think you gotta take the orig.jpg off, then it should work

Whitea207 · 02-08-2004, 08:17 PM

lude_vtec · 02-08-2004, 08:23 PM

Ok I see it now... did you try opening the motor up and try to get all that white strip out?

yield · 02-08-2004, 08:30 PM

i couldn't get the new mast into the old housing... bashed the **** out of it and scraped my car and finally took it to honda

Whitea207 · 02-08-2004, 08:31 PM

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Originally posted by lude_vtec
Ok I see it now... did you try opening the motor up and try to get all that white strip out?

No bc the new white strip is just as long as the old one, so i figure i got it all already.

lude_vtec · 02-08-2004, 08:37 PM

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Originally posted by yield
i couldn't get the new mast into the old housing... bashed the **** out of it and scraped my car and finally took it to honda

Me too... me and my cousin worked on mine at honda and got it pretty well fixed. The next week the damn tube snapped in half so I had to get a new motor and mast. I still got the new honda mast laying around, but parts of it are cut off.

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Origianlly posted by Whitea207
No bc the new white strip is just as long as the old one, so i figure i got it all already.

I'm confused, maybe because im tired, but you've already got the old one out and you're trying to get the new one in right??

Whitea207 · 02-08-2004, 08:45 PM

yea.

Whitea207 · 02-08-2004, 08:55 PM

I can't get that all the way down... i need it to go down the last like 2 inches, so that i can connect it to the exterior stuff.

lude_vtec · 02-08-2004, 09:02 PM

Damn I think I had this problem.... I don't remember what we did. I think we smacked it down with a rubber hammer, but then again you probably don't want to do that because of what happened to mine eventually.