antenna installation

I asked a while ago on here and someone said they just bought any short antenna and installed it on thier cav. I bought a short antenna on ebay and got it today and can't install it. It has a.5mm/.6mm adaptor, but i need to remove the post stud from the rubber part that goes into the rear quarter panel and into the antenna wiring. Can is do this? i cranked on it with a pair of lock tights and it didn't budge. I did take some metal off of the threads, but was able to put the stock antenna back on with the lock tights. Can this threaded stuff come out of the rubber piece?

I asked a while ago on here and someone said they just bought any short antenna and installed it on thier cav. I bought a short antenna on ebay and got it today and can't install it. It has a.5mm/.6mm adaptor, but i need to remove the post stud from the rubber part that goes into the rear quarter panel and into the antenna wiring. Can is do this? i cranked on it with a pair of lock tights and it didn't budge. I did take some metal off of the threads, but was able to put the stock antenna back on with the lock tights. Can this threaded stuff come out of the rubber piece?


in the trunk area, if you pull back the carpet, you will see the base, undo the 2 bolts and pull out the base the rubber that is there will stay

btw the bolts are 7mm

i think you miss understand. I know that if you remove the carpet and undo the screws there you can take everything out, but the threaded stud that the stock antenna screws onto comes with it. and the threaded stud is .6mm
I think i am just gonna get some .6mm nuts and some jb quick weld. cut down the stock stud and the adapter stud and use the nuts as a sleeve to connect the two studs, and use the jb quick weld for extra measure. just like two pipes of the same size connecting through a fitting. but this one will be threaded

i just unscrewed my attena and then rescrewed the new one back on

the antenna i got will receive a .5mm male bolt. the bold sticking out of my car after i remove the antenna is .6mm. This bolt, i believe, cannot be removed. My stock antenna will receive a .6mm male bolt. the adapter that came with my new antenna is a .5mm male bolt connected to a .6mm male bolt. to connect this to the bolt coming out of my car, i had to cut the stock bolt and the adapter bolt and conntect them by threading both of them into the ends of a .6mm nut. and i used a black neoprene plumbing gasket to be sandwiched between the molding on the car and then antenna to make it water tight. I think it looks great. Got my my car domain site to see it finished
http://www.cardomain.com/ride/2067526/1

thats too much work. Should of just bought the right size.

well, sometimes you sacrifice ease for looks

I got the same on on my car. Thats why I said that. i wasn't trying to be a dick.

Haha for a antenna, im goin to have to agree with 2000 on this one. That looks like way to much work with the possibilty of screwing something up just to get a shorter antenna. But I guess thats what happens when you buy stuff from ebay...

i just unscrewed my attena and then rescrewed the new one back on

I got the same 13" Euro style antenna on mine too and that's all I did, unscrewed the old, screwed on the new.:screwy: