Starter and radio

Can anybody give me a rough idea how long it will take to replace the
starter on a '98 SL2?
Also, since the day that we bought this car the radio has not worked
properly, it just won't get any stations outside of the town that you are
driving it in. I thought antenna! Checked it everything is kosher with it.
I bought a stock replacement, installed it, same result. As I was fiddling
with it I noticed that the radio worked great until the metal casing of
the radio itself made contact with the metal mounting brackets in the dash
and that's when the signal would fade.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Alliecat

 

It would take about an hour tops... even for a newbie DIY'er, best way
to do it would be to put your car on ramps and go at it from the
bottom. There's only two bolts holding that puppy in there... and two
wires to disconnect, one big one and a smaller wire.

As for the radio, try insulating the areas of metal that touch with
some electrical tape or something similar (not duct tape tho)

Brian
a.k.a. ProjectSW1

 

On the radio, I would suspect the antenna wire first. When you replaced the
antenna, did you also replace the wire from the antenna to the radio? A
short in the antenna wire can cause the same problems that you mentioned.
Radio should be grounded to the frame for mimimum interferrence on AM and
static electricity protection.