TROUBLE GETTING ANTENNA OFF

[spydercoach]

I HAVE A 2012 RT SE AND would like to put on a shorty antenna. I tried to just unscrew the past but it wont seem to budge. I don's to break anything so is there a trick to getting it off or am i just a wussray:

 

[ARtraveler]

Antenna should have been tightened down with locktite and a lock washer--it may take a little "oomph" to break the grip.

 

[StanProff]

I had all of this apart when I installed the corbin armrest but I have forgotten how the antenna was secured.

 

[Bob Denman]

Gee... They were just falling off the bikes not all that long ago... :shocked:
I think that there's been some sort of thread locking compound added to this equation...

 

[Questions]

antenna grief

SpyderJoe Here,

I had the same problem with my antenna I thought they welded the darn thing on there. i tried everything to break it loose but at the end i just had to break off the fiberglass antenna at the base above the nut so I could get a socket on it and even that took some torque to remove it. then I just replaced it with the short antenna from Walmart and trimmed the original rubber boot to go over the new stubby it works just fine now.

Regards, SpyderJoe :spyder2:

I HAVE A 2012 RT SE AND would like to put on a shorty antenna. I tried to just unscrew the past but it wont seem to budge. I don's to break anything so is there a trick to getting it off or am i just a wussray:

 

[Bob Denman]

Maybe try to put a little bit of heat to it??? :shocked: :dontknow:

 

[Ga Blue Knight]

If you use a 7mm angled open wrench it should come off with a lot of swearing. Be careful the basis brass and pretty soft. It could get rounded off,if you use the wrong size wrench. After I installed the new shorty and trimmed the rubber boot I used liquid vinyl to seal up the hole so rain and water won't get down in the innards.

by the way there was no loss of reception with the shorty. I know it sounds counterproductive but I think reception may even be better than the original tall antenna. I was able to pick up Atlanta Radio Stations in Thomson Ga, 100 miles away. I could not do that with the original antenna.