Replacing a Power Antenna: Clear Drain Tube

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Nate McCullough, on behalf of Expert Village. In the following clips, we're going to talk about some of the common failures with your power antenna, and how to remove and replace one. In this clip, we're going to talk about the drainage system for your power antenna motor. What we have here, is a small rubber tube. As you can see, if I run my finger along it, and a plastic joint, which actually is there to drain water, from your antenna motor. I'll hold my antenna motor up here. Everybody knows what an antenna looks like, especially a power one. It has several stages, and is a telescopic device. Now, those stages are crimped pretty tightly together. However, they didn't put the time, money, and engineering into sealing every one of those stages, so what they did, is designed it to leak. They sealed the motor up from that, from your antenna mask, and built in a drain hole, so you can see right there, that's the drain hole, and it will actually plug into this tube here, so one thing you're going to want to do, is either run a small piece of wire through your drain tube, or blow through it, and make sure that it's free flowing. That is the proper way to check, and inspect, your power antenna drainage system."