Power Antenna on 1990 Firebird?
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Power Antenna on 1990 Firebird?
So this is undoubtably a dumb question but nevertheless: would a 1990 Firebird have a power antenna? The manual makes no mention of it and I can’t find an obvious control, but the antenna itself isn’t one piece; it looks like three pieces that would fit nicely into each other. The car has power mirrors, so it’s got some extra features in that line. I know, absolutely KNOW that the people I share a garage with will knock off that delicate antenna one day...
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Re: Power Antenna on 1990 Firebird?
The power antennae is RPO U75 for my '88. Check your SPID label if you have it, and see if U75 is there.
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Re: Power Antenna on 1990 Firebird?
If the antenna is 3 pieces, it's a power one.
The way those work is, those pieces are tubular, and there's a steel cable inside it that pushes the tip up to raise it and pulls it in to lower it. It works, in a big-picture way, very similarly to a garage door opener. When it reaches full-up or full-down, there are little contacts on a sort of clutch that drives it, that open and cut off the motor current to make it stop They most often fail by the cable breaking. When that happens, the antenna gets stuck wherever it happens to be, and the motor keeps running forever. People usually unplug the relay to make it quit, or in the case of the knuckle-dragging mouth breather type of PO, they cut the wires. Gotta love idiots with dykes.
However all that may be, you can buy a replacement cable kit for it, and then repair whatever brutality and sodomy the PO committed upon it, and it'll be back good as new.
The way those work is, those pieces are tubular, and there's a steel cable inside it that pushes the tip up to raise it and pulls it in to lower it. It works, in a big-picture way, very similarly to a garage door opener. When it reaches full-up or full-down, there are little contacts on a sort of clutch that drives it, that open and cut off the motor current to make it stop They most often fail by the cable breaking. When that happens, the antenna gets stuck wherever it happens to be, and the motor keeps running forever. People usually unplug the relay to make it quit, or in the case of the knuckle-dragging mouth breather type of PO, they cut the wires. Gotta love idiots with dykes.
However all that may be, you can buy a replacement cable kit for it, and then repair whatever brutality and sodomy the PO committed upon it, and it'll be back good as new.
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