[T3] Antenna wire

Ralph Tree treedog12001 at yahoo.com
Sun May 17 06:11:24 PDT 2015


Thanks, I'll give it another try today. I had the fuse box out, a good light and still couldn't see the wire. 
The car was disassembled when I bought it so no grommet. I found one with the right OD and had to open up the center hole. 
Ralph

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> On May 16, 2015, at 10:36 PM, Jim Adney <jadney at vwtype3.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 16 May 2015 at 21:44, Ralph Tree wrote:
>> 
>> I have a question concerning the routing of the antenna lead. I can't
>> seem to get it to feed through the body, into the cabin. I found the
>> small hole in the sheet metal under the outter fender but can't get
>> from there into the cabin. Any help is appreciated.
> 
> If you're thru the hole in the inner fender wall, you're into the 
> cabin. The hole comes in quite high under the dash, so you may need 
> to remove the fuse box to see it, and pull it on in.
> 
> BTW, you need a grommet around antenna wire to seal that opening once 
> you've removed the rubber plug that was there. Otherwise, you won't 
> believe the amount of water that wheel spray will pump into the cabin 
> when you drive in the rain. (And everyone drives in the rain 
> eventually.) The antenna should have come with a sealing grommet for 
> this purpose.
> 
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