Power antenna to non power antenna

Maybe an hour if you’re removing the antenna and motor

 

@Running Board Man does your old 95.5 still have this part?

@Running Board Man ?

 

If your OEM antenna only has two wires, you're going to have to deal with wiring up relays like in the diagram posted above. The only problem I see with using your own relays, is that the limit switches may not be in the motor and is handled by the relay module. If this is the case, the motor will always try to run, even when it's reached its full travel. You can test to see if the OEM motor has built in limit switches by hooking it up to a battery and see if it stops when it reaches full travel. If it does, you can easily wire up a couple of relays to make it work without trying to find the OEM module. Test out the motor first, and if it stops on its own at full travel, let me know and I can draw up a diagram for relays for you.

 

Well because the OEM antenna needs the OEM relay and that relay has 8 wire pin out I just made it simple and bought a universal power antenna,
3 wire setup ground, power, radio trigger.

Had to use the OEM antenna fender plastic cap with some trimming to get the universal antenna to fit correctly in the fender hole and look OEM.

Cost 65.00

 

you couldn't fit the oem mast in?
i just ordered a new mast in case mine is a bit bent from decades of wear n tear

trees, garage door... that antenna sticks up relatively high lol

 

My original antenna was not powered,

I bought an OEM power antenna but didn’t know it needed an OEM relay,

So the universal power antenna one will see how it works long term,

So far so good,

 

does the universal go up as high?

 

Yes, it’s 31”,

It goes up and down if the radio is on when the key ignition is turned on or off,
and goes up and down if you turn the radio off from the radio power source

 

sweet!

 

Because it’s a universal antenna it took a little extra time to make it fit.

The bracket that attaches to the body and the fender plastic sleeve needs to be customized,

Use the OEM Toyota fender sleeve tho, the aftermarket ones don’t fit correctly,
I had to drill out the sleeve a bit larger and cut the bottom off just a bit to make it work

 

Ok so the aftermarket one has failed 2 times,
The motor just stops so I'm trying a 3rd time under warranty.

So time to revisit the OEM antenna.

I ran a ground wire to the negative side and to the ground strap on the antenna that goes to the metal
motor case.

I connected a positive wire to both of the green wires coming out if the wire connector,

Nothing

I was afraid to connect the positive and negative wire in the wire connector incase it shorts,

Do you know if the connector wires in the 2 wire green harness are positive or negative?

I want to see if this antenna had a limit switch inside

 

The OEM power antenna doesn’t have a limit switch, the limit switch is part of the antenna relay. I don’t know if the antenna relay is still available from Toyota.

 

If you still need help with this I can.

For now I'll just say that the OEM antenna is NOT an automatic antenna. It is a Semi-automatic. Meaning that it has NO inner limits. The limit are controlled by timers in the OEM relay Module and that's what made it fully auto. You can use regular Bosch style 5 pi relays but you will have to use a switch to control the antenna "manually".

What exactly was the fault with the antennas. What do you mean the "motor just stops". Just stops working? Stops when going down? Does not go down at all? Does not go up?

 

I just replaced it with an aftermarket antenna that connects to my radio. Radio powers it on and off

 

Yes you mentioned that in post #31. Saw that and that's what made me ask as to what the actual problem was with the first two. Guess third time was the charm.

In any case I was going to send you this controller board to use with the OEM. It came out of an antenna that the mast broke. DOA. It should work on a semiautomatic like the OEM and the one I am expecting delivery today. So will be testing it on that one.

I'll also be testing a circuit of my own design, that anyone that can twist wires together, can put together to make a timed controller.

 

Ohhh, I was trying to install an OEM antenna originally and the truck was not wired for it.
I didn't know I needed a relay, was to complicated to install the OEM one over the aftermarket