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Did the old 2” tall sleeve come out with the old mast?
Make sure the shaft down inside looks clean. I have seen white corrosion form between the 2” sleeve and inside the shaft before. I have also used the old 2” sleeve with a new mast if it’s not mangled up also.
Last edited by Addicted2boost; 11-07-2022 at 03:55 PM.
Never thought of trying the old sleeve. I will look inside the tube as well.
the old sleeve is intact. My old mast is not. Someone bent the old mast at Walmart. I was having problems of it going all the way down sometimes, and some asshat took advantage of that. Because of where it was bent, I pretty much had to cut the old mast apart with aviator snips, to get the nut off.
the new mast has a small lip on the very bottom. I can’t tell if the old one had this.
is the lip supposed to be there? It doesn’t slide into the tube more than 1/2” or so. Seems like it should maybe go further. Shrug.
I took apart the mechanism and cleaned it out, re-greased it. That is working smoothly now.
So I dug the bottom part of the old mast out of the garbage, it seemed to have the bottom lip. I mangled it, but pretty sure the lip is there.
first pic, shows the lip and an indentation about 3/8” up.
second shows that the mast will only insert to the indentation.
third shows the old sleeve, but it won’t go into tube at all.
what am I missing? I read so many posts. Watched the YouTube video several times. Or is this Uro part incorrect?
edit- I used a pipe cleaner in the tube. Found some black funk towards the bottom, but didn’t find anything solid.
going to uninstall it again so I can fiddle with the tube easier. Will update. I found a similar post that said there was a piece of sleeve embedded in the tube, but the old sleeve seems intact.
Last edited by Joe Enge; 11-08-2022 at 08:26 AM.
Reason: Update
Hey Joe, I had a similar issue on the Duchess a while back. My wife had decided that she could listen to the
radio as she drove the car through an automatic car wash. Of course the mast was bent at about a 45 degree
angle when she brought the car home so I attempted to bend it straight and was successful save the fact it would
not retract fully, similar to what you are getting. Buying a new mast and installing it seemed to go without issue
for me, but I see others who have had poorly fitted antennae give them the same issue you are reporting