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Antenna  06-22-2008, 08:24 PM My dad recently bought me an
[almost] immaculate Legacy LS sedan last christmas. The only
thing that made it not immaculate was the power antenna. It
wouldn't go down period and basically I didn't care to
investigate why. So, today, I opened the trunk and pulled off
the liner and looked. Turns out, it was disconnected from the
power source! I hooked it back up and stuck my key in the
ignotion and turned the radio off to see what would happen. The
antenna started to retract and I got all excited, until I found
out why it had been disconnected. The antenna would go down
until the very last [top] segment was exposed, and when the
antenna stopped the motor inside the housing would make a loud
clicking noise. Same way going back up, except it would go all
the way up and the clicking noise was even louder.  I figured it
wasn't lubricated properly, so I sprayed it with WD-40. No luck.
I searched the internet and came upon a su