Need some help here .I want to put a toggle switch in so that I can raise the antenna when reqd. I mostly listen to cassette tapes and not the radio;thus not needing the antenna up. There are 3 wires....green--white--grey. Which one do I cut into to install a toggle switch?

 

Need help on this one...

 

if those are your three wires you are putting a switch in AFTER the relay. this is not a good plan as you are switching larger ammounts of power. here is what you should do. pull your passanger side lower dash trim. (the part that says "performance suspension" if you have a T/A) and behind it there should be a relay (see attached) with some wires. one of them sould be the "remote power" wire from your car radio (i assume since you said tapes that it's all stock). i think you want the white or futia (dark pink) wire (can't remember). but to test turn on your radio with a test light on the wire. if the light lightes before the realy clicks that is your remote power wire. switch that. if not keep testing until you find it.

 

EDIT:nevermind...xophertony knows more than i do on this subject.

 

it's funny too, cause i have never owned a power antenna equiped car. well, my GTA had one. PO replaced it with a normal one. so i have seen all the wires and stuff.

EDIT* just checked my service manual. it is a "PINK" wire. futia (fusha sp?) is for somthing else in the UQ7 package on firebirds. so regardless of firebird or camaro it should be the pink wire going into the relay. the relay will also have orange (hot) and black (ground) wires. from the relay you have white (down curcuit), DK green (?? ground ??) and grey (up curcuit).

so if you wanted too, you could swithc the gray wire, then the antenna would go up when you flipped the switch, and down regardless of swithc position when you turned the radio off. however, if the radio was on and antenna was up, and you flipped the switch to "off" the antenna would remain up untill the radio was switched off and the relay sent power down the white wire to lower it. i would not recomend this myself.

i would switch the pink wire and be done with it. then the antenna will go up with the switch "on" whenever the radio was on and down when it when it was turned off. with the switch in the "off" position the antenna relay would assume that the radio was off, and would never raise the antenna, or lower it if it was allready up. in essance the positions on the switch would be "normal oporation" and "radio is offf"

 

Thanks for the replys.......the info was great!!!!!!!Well,another project for the weekend...