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MG MGF Technical - Aerial

While vigorously washing the car at one of those jet wash places this weekend I knocked my aerial clean off with the brush.

The brass threaded bit has snapped, leaving most of it still threaded into the car.

Has this happened to anyone else, I know that B&G and MS sell replacements but I need to remove the threaded part.
Tim

Tim, sorry to hear about your aerial. I've never done this on a car but if you buy an 'Left-handed thread tap' you should be able to take the brass portion of the aerial out without damaging anything. Then all you need to do is buy a new aerial!
Any good hardware store or engineering place should sell you the 'tap & bit' that you need, take the car with you & they'll give you the right size. In case you dont know (hope im not insulting your intelligence), the tap has a left hand thread & will therefore be threaded into the brass portion while at the same time unscrewing the snapped aerial from the car.
Hope this helps mate!!!!
quikstu

Tim,

Which 'Tim' are you.....?
If your anywhere around south London I have a set of left hand tap's you can use. Should only take ten minutes.

Tim
tim

Depending on how much material is left above the arial post, another solution is to cut a slot in the brass component left behind (use either a junior hack saw or one of those 'Dremel' type tools). Then you can use a screw driver to unscrew.
Rob Bell

I have no idea what a left handed tap thread thing is or how it works.

There is no thread exposed, it broke at the top of the hole. Sorry I'm not very technical.

Tim, I live in north London but work in Kew, so if you were able to help with your left handed taps at all it would be very appreciated.
Tim G

Also known as Easi-outs or screw extractors,a full set with wrench will be under a tenner or less.
Joe

it's called a stud remover, not a left handed tap.

I think Machinemart.com sell them.

You drill a small pilot hole in the broken end and screw the stud remover in anticlockwise until it tightens up and removes the broken stud.



Brian

Removal will be difficult with a stud remover, cause the pilot hole must be applied the M5 thread bolt.
Kernel diameter is only 4mm, so a 2mm drill has only 1mm 'space' at the circumference.
I would try to drill a short 2mm pilot hole and use a slight larger (2.2 or 2.3 mm) screwdriver. Push it to the hole and try to turn left.

Only a suggestion before you kill the small expensive stud remover.

Dieter

Dieter Koennecke

Is it easy to fit an electric Ariel? - Can you take a power feed from the boot?
Gary

All,local dealer supplied both parts for under £15 fitted in 3 mins steve-s
steve-s

This thread was discussed between 21/05/2002 and 24/05/2002

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