Factory power antenna question?
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Melting Slicks
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Factory power antenna question?
I already had a similar thread about this but now I'm at a roadblock. I have installed amy NOS power antenna in my 82 but it's just hooking up the wires. After going through the relay it's basically 4 hook ups, 12V keyed, 12V batt, ground and the radio wire. But that's where it gets tricky, I have a Kenwood deck in the car and they list a solid blue wire for a power antenna source but when hooked up it doesn't work?? I called Kenwood's tech line and they were no help. Now if you ground that wire that's for the radio the antenna will work so it's a reversing ground and that's where I'm now lost and don't know what to do????
Safety Car
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From: Beecher Illinois
Lose the timer.
Corvettes didn't use it and for the life of me I can't figure out the purpose of it!
The plug that goes into the relay has 4 wires, orange, 2 blacks and I think green.
Keep the orange, keep the black ground.
Clip the second black and cut the green leaving enough to splice onto it.
Clip the yellow from the timer and splice it to the green at the plug.
Eliminate the red "ignition circuit", not necessary.
You'll end up with orange going to "batt" terminal, black ground, and the yellow spliced to the green will go to your radio antenna lead.
Corvettes didn't use it and for the life of me I can't figure out the purpose of it!
The plug that goes into the relay has 4 wires, orange, 2 blacks and I think green.
Keep the orange, keep the black ground.
Clip the second black and cut the green leaving enough to splice onto it.
Clip the yellow from the timer and splice it to the green at the plug.
Eliminate the red "ignition circuit", not necessary.
You'll end up with orange going to "batt" terminal, black ground, and the yellow spliced to the green will go to your radio antenna lead.
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Melting Slicks
Joined: Jun 2011
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Lose the timer.
Corvettes didn't use it and for the life of me I can't figure out the purpose of it!
The plug that goes into the relay has 4 wires, orange, 2 blacks and I think green.
Keep the orange, keep the black ground.
Clip the second black and cut the green leaving enough to splice onto it.
Clip the yellow from the timer and splice it to the green at the plug.
Eliminate the red "ignition circuit", not necessary.
You'll end up with orange going to "batt" terminal, black ground, and the yellow spliced to the green will go to your radio antenna lead.
Corvettes didn't use it and for the life of me I can't figure out the purpose of it!
The plug that goes into the relay has 4 wires, orange, 2 blacks and I think green.
Keep the orange, keep the black ground.
Clip the second black and cut the green leaving enough to splice onto it.
Clip the yellow from the timer and splice it to the green at the plug.
Eliminate the red "ignition circuit", not necessary.
You'll end up with orange going to "batt" terminal, black ground, and the yellow spliced to the green will go to your radio antenna lead.
Now just to confirm is this the correct bezel mount?
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