If you go off road and you cannot retract the ariel it will get caught up, bends back and then flicks forward and snaps and overtakes you, now how do I know that? Re the shark fin style, I fitted one to mine and it was garbage, it was from a radio shop in Spain and apparently really good, was...
I would leave the power switch in place and the old motor if you have enough room for the manual ariel, pressing the buttons makes a great machine gun sound when someone pulls out in front of you and pisses you off. :mad:
Best I can do as I am not responsible enough (by my own admission) to...
I recently replaced my old electric unit with a new one, but was surprised at the amount of work needed to change it, having said that it did me a chance to clean up and paint the inner wing, for info see my long running thread.
https://forum.ih8mud.com/threads/my-lc-80-thread.365673/
Regards...