el_baby

I'm trying to install the antenna mast, but it dont want to go in the tube...

i have removed the motor and loosen the tube where the antenna should go and it got stuck (the mast) a bit before the cable plug (for the radio)...

the mast have a metal arround it with the black plastic thing in it... i know that i need the plastic...
but that metal that "its not part of the antenna", shound I broke it?

or continue sanding it untill it gets in?

the mast should go all the way in?

el_baby

thats the antenna I have...

el_baby

problem solved...

the metal part that have the black plastic... it was stuck there... the plastic came out but that was stuck there...

mzwahlen

Not quite sure how you solved this. I'm having the same problem installing honda antenna mast (part num 39177-SS0-305) - the metal sleeve of the new antenna is too large to fit in the motor tube. How did you finally make it fit?

el_baby

look inside the tube... look for the same pattern of the sleeve... if you find it or like something with a hole then you have the sleeve of the previous mast in the tube... use some pliers, flat screw drivers and broke the one insideand take it out

mzwahlen

el baby....you are the man. The metal sleeve from the old antenna was stuck inside the motor tube like you said. Once we removed it, the new antenna slid in...no problem. Thanks for the help...we were just about to grind off the metal sleeve on the new antenna to make it fit.

el_baby

in the first antenna i bought i didnt know about the stuck sleeve and broke the sleeve of the new antenna and didnt work... about in the third day the antenna popup and end up broken...