Hello,

I purchased just the antenna with like a nylon cord with gears on cord.

My goal is to just change out the internals.

My radio has crackles in it but where I live is remote but it goes up and down ok.

I have fixed the ground it was bad. So that is good now.

Yesterday, I took off 3 Phillips screws on cover and a 7mm nut in center of cover and looked inside and saw a big white round wheel.

Wasn't sure what to do so put cover back on.

Anybody ever just replace the shiny antenna pole and the nylon rope with gears on it?

I'm thinking antenna may be bad but don't want to disable what I have which is 90% good it just crackles and fades in and out like you are going by trees.




Thanks

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1982 300SD