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BillM - 03 Mar 2008 00:31 GMT

My tunes quit in my 94 K1500 Silverado. Amp
works, tape deck works, just static on
radio. Acts like the antenna isn't hooked up.
WHERE does the antenna plug in?
I pulled the control unit in the dash----no
antenna. Can't find where it's supposed to go
in
unit under the dash, but I'm sure it doesn't
plug into the tape player. Before I start
pulling components, can someone tell me where
the antenna is supposed to plug in?

Thanks.

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Certainly - 05 Mar 2008 04:12 GMT

> My tunes quit in my 94 K1500 Silverado. Amp
> works, tape deck works, just static on
[quoted text clipped - 9 lines]
>
> Thanks.

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BillM - 05 Mar 2008 05:05 GMT

On Mar 2, 4:31 pm, "BillM"
<billma...@verizon.net> wrote:

> My tunes quit in my 94 K1500 Silverado. Amp
> works, tape deck works, just static on
[quoted text clipped - 9 lines]
>
> Thanks.

There should be an antenna connection at the
back of the radio itself.
Thick black coaxial cable with a metal end. If
it is not there, it
should be far. Didi this static all of a sudden
happen? The cable
doesn't come unplugged very easy.

Update: 94 K1500 uses a CDM module behind the
dash. Antenna plugs into it
at the top. Had to pull the panel under the
steering column to see it. Antenna is
plugged in---so probably the tuner is fried.
Good news is that my friendly local
wrecking yard has 3 of them, still in the
trucks, $10 per if I pull it. Should be a
cheap fix.

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Steve W. - 05 Mar 2008 15:09 GMT

> On Mar 2, 4:31 pm, "BillM"
> <billma...@verizon.net> wrote:
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> trucks, $10 per if I pull it. Should be a
> cheap fix.

Before you pull it all apart, go to a parts store and buy a cheap
antenna OR even use a hunk of wire stuck into the antenna plug to test
it. The antenna cables have been known to go bad. They use a VERY small
interior wire and an inline capacitor and both have issues.

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Steve W.
Near Cooperstown, New York

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BillM - 05 Mar 2008 18:19 GMT

>> Update: 94 K1500 uses a CDM module behind
>> the dash. Antenna plugs into it
[quoted text clipped - 12 lines]
> go bad. They use a VERY small interior wire
> and an inline capacitor and both have issues.

Will do. I've run more than one with a 3 ft
chunk of 3/32 welding filler rod stuck in the
hole!
I will go pull the one at the wrecking yard,
even if I end up not needing it---can't beat
it for $10. I keep threatening to trade this
truck off. It's a 94 K1500 Z71 Short wide
extended cab, has 212,000 on it now. It still
looks and runs nice, and the trade in is
about $0, so I'll probably run it on out to
250,000 or maybe 300,000. Friend has one
similar with 378,000 on it, he put in a rebuild
engine at 325,000 or so.

Bill

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