hammmy

I'm trying to swap the power antenna with a rubber fixed unit, as some jackass punk bent the mast over--Thanks for leaving it up, Mazda engineers! Anyhoo, this FB has been whacked in the taillights by a Dodge van, so while they are intact, they are cracked and the surface they are screwed into has been pushed back closer to vertical.

I took off the right-side lense to see where the screws were. I saw 3 holes that looked like good screw-hole candidates, but after poking around in them with a screwdriver for 15 minutes I failed to locate one: even allowing for the screws not being on the same plane as they were before the Dodge van incident.

I searched, but didn't find anything. I'm guessing that's because the screws are normally easy to locate. My Haynes and factory manual are in my wife's trunk, so I can't see if they have anything useful to say. I'm gonna go see what can be done from inside the hatch.

TIA,

Rx-7Doctor

iTrader: (13)

It's removed from the inside of the car. Remove the trim around the hatch area.
Behind that is the inside holder for the assembly. It is fastened in place by approx
8 nuts that take a 10mm socket, remove all those, disconnect the eletrical connector to the assembly and pull the lense assembly out the back. rx7doctor

hammmy

Well, that answers that. Thanks Doc.