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For Sale & Wanted / Re: FZS500 Givi rack & Topbox
« on: 11 August 2017, 04:54:35 pm »
Oh ok, my apologies it came with the bike so I assumed as it had a Givi box and a Givi... mounting plate thingy for the box? That it was a Givi as well.

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For Sale & Wanted / FZS500 Givi rack & Topbox
« on: 11 August 2017, 01:08:20 pm »

Taking up space in my garage at the moment! Givi rack & monokey topbox for a FZS600. No mountings Im afraid as they stayed with the bike when I sold it.



http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/yamaha-fazer-fzs600-givi-luggage-rack-and-top-box-/302412057567?hash=item466929cbdf:g:6c8AAOSwgulZjZt4




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For Sale & Wanted / For sale: Spares/Repairs FZS600
« on: 21 June 2017, 09:38:21 pm »



http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/302357184236




Its a bit of a long shot, but I can always dream, and it doesnt hurt to spread the advertising! Someone may have use for it!


Having decided I cant be bothered with the hassle of nakeding the Fazer Ive gone and bought a Bandit 1200S instead. Please forgive me.  :'(  Perhaps someone here can make my Fazer live on!

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FZS600 Fazer / Re: My Fazer is incontinent :(
« on: 14 May 2017, 02:16:01 pm »
Out of the two, getting it welded sounds like the better option! DIY sounds like a faff waiting to go wrong  :lol


I'll see if I can get the old one welded up, put it back on and hope for the best. If it cracks again I dont even know what Ill do... probably put the bike in the bin. 

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FZS600 Fazer / Re: My Fazer is incontinent :(
« on: 14 May 2017, 01:14:02 pm »
I know where the leak is coming from, its from exactly the same place as the old one  :'(  Theres a hairline crack in the sump around one of the housing bolts. I just cant figure out why!

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FZS600 Fazer / Re: My Fazer is incontinent :(
« on: 14 May 2017, 12:46:22 pm »

Reviving this thread, because guess what?


Insurers said I could keep it, they didnt even want it. So I thought Id take off all the damaged fairings, and naked it. Seeing as the headlights are crap anyway Id fit a single round HID or something.


So its been sat up in the garage for a month, once the insurance examiner came round and had a look at it, and declared it a write off I got to work. New bars, fairing etc all taken off so I could at least steer it, the old fairing was so bent that with new bars on I couldnt do full lock either direction. Started it up first time with no problem whatsoever, took it for a test ride around the block, 5 minutes max. Satisfied it was working ok. Put it back in the garage... thismorning... theres a puddle of oil underneath it.


From exactly the same place.


Theres a hairline crack in exactly the same place as the old sump


I cant for the life of me figure out why this is happening... I checked the new sump thoroughly, caked it in white spirit and scrubbed it til it was shining to make sure there was no cracks or other hidden surprises. Theres no moving parts inside the sump to be fouling it... I used a torque wrench to tighten the bolts to the correct torque in the manual... and a 5 minute ride has been enough to cause exactly the same crack to appear.


WHAT THE FOC?  :wall


What now? Do I try a 3rd sump? A friend has suggested taking the original sump to a garage and seeing if they can weld the crack, put it back on and see if it cracks again or if another fault develops. I think the sump is aluminium I didnt think that was weldable? Or perhaps some liquid metal weld stuff in the crack? But the heat expansion seems to make the crack worse over time, so I dont know if a repair would hold. Im quickly losing my rag with this bike. I love it and I want to keep it, plus the amount theve offered me is a mere pittance thats not enough to buy a replacement bike (£930, Im haggling in the hope for more... even the cheapest Fazers on eBay/Autotrader are around £12-1300)

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FZS600 Fazer / looking for a suitable single headlight HID
« on: 02 April 2017, 01:59:48 pm »
Whilst Im still sat around unable to ride, I may as well start putting my time to productive use and start thinking about how Im putting the Fazer back on the road.


The front fairing is smashed to bits. And lets face it the standard lights on the boxeye are crap anyway. Silver lining to every cloud and all that, its a blank canvas for upgrading. Im going to naked it and put a single headlight on it. But I want something that gives a decent amount of light compared to the stock lights, and will pass an MOT.


Theres so many different types of "universal" headlight out there, and they all look like bargain basement Chinese ebay jobbies that will undoubtedly either not work, suck, or fail an MOT.


Instead of "universal" should I be looking at a particular bike that does naked headlights well? I do like the look of an FZ6n single headlight, but dont know if I want to spend £150+ on one.


Ideally Id quite like to do an HID or LED upgrade too because I love how they look, but I know next to nothing about HID, the regulations regarding aftermarket ones and MOTs etc, I know Ill need to get some sort of projector for it to pass an MOT(?), but dont know what I need and what will fit. There seems to be plenty of LED/HID headlight units out there already but they all look crap, aimed at Harley riders or Chinese junk that will fall apart/catch fire.


So has anyone got any recommendations for a suitable headlight that fits what I need? Or a list of what I'll need to make an HID/LED work?  Preferably round, or similar, I dont like the look of square/rectangle headlights.

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FZS600 Fazer / Re: single headlight conversion
« on: 01 April 2017, 11:04:38 pm »
Having just thrown my Fazer sideays down the road, Ill be doing something very similar to this and watching this thread with great interest!


Hows that single lamp doing? I mean not that it can be much worse than the absolutely bloody awful original boxeye headlights. Im having trouble finding something online thats not a cheap £10 "universal round headlight" eBay special, I want something that actually puts out a good amount of light. Any recommendations?

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FZS600 Fazer / Re: My Fazer is incontinent :(
« on: 29 March 2017, 11:56:24 am »
And after all that !!!!!!!!

Is it salvageable.
The sump must be good.


Annoyingly now Ive got it home in my garage, its developed another oil leak from somewhere  :'( not had a chance to look properly, I dont fancy rolling around the floor with a knackered shoulder. But its bled out probably the entire oil capacity over my garage floor.


In the light of day it's not as badly wrecked as it could have been. It's still going to be an insurance write off, the fairings are shattered down the right side and they'll be silly money to replace for a 14 year old bike. Looks like the exhaust acted as a crumple zone and took almost all the damage. Pissed oil and brake fluid everywhere too. But mechanically its relatively intact. So I think I'm going to keep it, and in my spare time/money make it into a naked and have it as a second bike use it as a daily hack around London.


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FZS600 Fazer / Re: My Fazer is incontinent :(
« on: 28 March 2017, 03:25:29 am »
Got the new sump on and fixed the leak 👌


Then tonight I wrote the fazer off :( low sided it when some idiot changed lanes on a roundabout and cut me up. Currently in A&E with a dislocated shoulder and broken arm. :'(


I'm more annoyed about the bike than anything else... the NHS is free, fixing/replacing the bike isn't.

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FZS600 Fazer / Re: My Fazer is incontinent :(
« on: 23 March 2017, 04:59:04 pm »
Whoops I attached the wrong pic!But yes thats the area Im looking at.Speaking of which, I had a breakthrough whilst trying PTFE tape on the bolt as per friend's suggestion. When I put the bolt back in, wrapped in PTFE tape  as it was slightly tighter/wider fit I noticed some oil being pushed out of something as I screwed the bolt back in, on closer inspection and much fiddling - there is indeed a hairline fracture that runs quite a long way around that corner of the sump, well spotted in those photos because that looks like its one end of the crack, it runs from there, around the entire circumference of the bolt recess, and down the left side of the sump for a few cm. So looks like its new sump time! Which brings me onto this lovely gentleman's post:
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Where in the world are you? have an old engine sat outside in bits, I'm pretty sure the  sump plate is sat there if you want it. In NW London
I'm in Croydon, SW London, and that would be bloody lovely if you did have one lying around <3

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FZS600 Fazer / Re: My Fazer is incontinent :(
« on: 23 March 2017, 02:55:29 pm »
Ok so, I had the sprocket cover off and everything behind there is fine, brake cleanered all the gunky crap off and its totally bone dry not a hint of leaking oil from any of the seals. So thats another potential ticked off.


Whilst I was down there, I checked this again.



 
Ive had the bike on the centre stand for a few days now, and its still leaking from exactly the same spot. Blew the oil away with brake cleaner and kitchen roll, and you can see it slowly build up again in the recess of that allen bolt, cleaned it away again to make sure, and sure enough it builds back up again. So Im now 99% sure this is the culprit. Now to find out *why*


Theres no obvious damage to the bolt or surrounding case. One of my friends suggested it might be missing a washer, but theres 14 bolts holding the sump on and none of them have washers, I refuse to accept that even the most amatuer of home mechanics who owned it before me could have possibly forgot to put all 14 back on... Does anyone know if theres meant to be washers there?


So my next idea is to take that bolt out and see if it pisses out oil everywhere... and if not, to PTFE tape the bolt and see if that seals it up.



Ive had a measuring jug underneath the bike catching the leak for a few days too, seems to be losing somewhere in the region of 50-100ml overnight, assuming thats constant when its parked up at work too Im looking at around worst case scenario of 200ml of oil loss a day, that seems like a lot to be coming from one tiny little bolt.

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FZS600 Fazer / Re: My Fazer is incontinent :(
« on: 22 March 2017, 12:13:44 am »
Thats exactly the one I ordered. I assumed an OEM bolt would be expensive. Turns out its £2 from my local Yam dealer. Compared to £6 for a stupid magnetic half length one.  :rolleyes  The washer costs more than the bolt bizarrely.

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FZS600 Fazer / Re: My Fazer is incontinent :(
« on: 21 March 2017, 11:17:30 pm »
Is that a hairline crack in the allen bolt recess? (red circle). Chemical metal filler might be a way forward if it is.


Not sure, I think its just a smear of cleanliness amongst the dirt though Ill have a closer proper look.


Typically this has all happened on my long shifts week at work so Ive got next to no time to tinker and have a proper go at the bike :(


Also turns out that the new sump plug bolt didnt fit properly and that was leaking like a bugger, serves me right for getting cheap eBay parts. Ordered a proper OEM one and put the old half rounded off one back on for now.


Next place to check is those seals behind the sprocket, but for now Ill just have to limp it to and from work gingerly and keep topping it up until the weekend when I can have a proper day off on it

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FZS600 Fazer / Re: My Fazer is incontinent :(
« on: 19 March 2017, 07:07:11 pm »
That might just be the lighting, I can see what you might think is oil glistening but its bone dry in person. It was caked in black gunky crap as well, its had a good scrub with WD40 and a dish brush.

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FZS600 Fazer / Re: My Fazer is incontinent :(
« on: 19 March 2017, 04:10:57 pm »
So a good dig around underneath it later hasnt turned up much new :( Good call on the external oil pipe, I wasnt aware of that, but it doesnt seem to be the problem. Its caked in black gunk but nicely dried on, theres no signs of oil leaking through it and making the gunk wet or washing it away like it did on the oil sump. When I started, the sump was caked in about a decades worth black road gunk, as I had it off I scrubbed it down with meths and WD40 to get it mostly clean and easier to see any oil.


Pics wise:
 
Heres the main culprit, this is taken from the front of the bike, thats the kickstand mechanism in the background on the right hand side to give you an idea of where youre looking.



Big fat drop of oil just about to fall off. To me it looks like its coming from around that Allen bolt, it seems to be the only area thats significantly "wet" looking.






The rest of the sump and gasket looks dry, brand new oil filter, no leaking from the filter or oil cooler either by the look of it.





Looking at it from this side, theres perhaps a little bit of oil here too? This is taken by the gear lever.




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FZS600 Fazer / My Fazer is incontinent :(
« on: 18 March 2017, 11:38:31 pm »
For the past few days shes been drip, drip, dripping oil in a bad way.


From what I can tell, its coming from the oil sump gasket, it appears to be leaking from/around the front-most left side allen bolt that holds the sump in place (looking from the rear of the bike). I assumed because its nearly 13 years old and just done 35k on the original gasket thats not bad going and its due replacing. So I spent this afternoon fixing it. Changed the gasket for a new one, cleaned everything up nicely, put it all back together and did a full oil change...




And its still bloody leaking  :wall


So its not the gasket... its a not sump loose everything is torqued correctly, I cant find any obvious damage or reason for why its still leaking?! What am I missing? I cant see any possible place it could be leaking from, its all tightly sealed up.

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FZS600 Fazer / Am I going to melt my engine?
« on: 08 December 2016, 08:02:55 pm »
So because Im fed up of my stock exhaust, and it has a massive dirty great big dent in it, I bought this: http://www.pipewerx.com/yamaha-fzs-600-fazer-98-03-hawk-powder-black-round-gp-race-exhaust.html


Housemate fellow biker is convinced that:


a) Im a hooligan and going to deafen everyone in the world (he says with his de-catted straight through BMW R1200  :rollin )
b) its going to cause serious fuelling issues and make the bike run so lean that it melts the pistons or something


So my question to you FOCers is am I going to potato the engine? If so what do I need to do to prevent said potato-ing of the engine. Its my understanding that Fazers tend to run hella rich as standard, do I really need to get my carbs re-jetted because that sounds like a lot of hassle and expense.


As far as I know the bike engine/carbs are totally standard. Only thing in the system thats not standard is the K&N "high flow" air filter, and soon to be this exhaust.

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FZS600 Fazer / Re: strange electrical problem & oil light
« on: 01 August 2016, 07:56:02 pm »
yeah I dont really fancy taking the entire loom apart  :'(  my housemate had catastrophic electrical problems with his KLE500, when we resorted to peeling the looms apart found out several joints had perished and come loose.


My thoughts as to why it only does it when cold is that heat expansion must create a tighter seal or something around the loose connection and hold it in place, perhaps. Or maybe its a gypsy curse and/or voodoo at work like most electrical problems!

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FZS600 Fazer / strange electrical problem & oil light
« on: 01 August 2016, 06:59:48 pm »
So my Fazer has started doing something odd!


When the engine is cold, if you put the steering on full lock to the right, the oil warning and low fuel lights switch on, and the radiator fan start spinning! It seems to not do it when the engine has warmed up though. Ive had a look at the wiring assuming its a loose connection somewhere, or something pinching when I turn to full lock, but cant find anything.


Also my oil warning light sometimes flickers on at random for just a second, then goes off again, the things Ive found that usually cause it is hard acceleration (traffic light grand prix is almost guaranteed to cause it  :lol ) or speed bumps, so again Im assuming loose connection somewhere as the oil level is perfect. It also sometimes does it at random when driving along at motorway speeds on a perfectly flat, straight road with no hard acceleration.


Im at a loss for where to look though, Ive checked the obvious places and cant find anything! Anyone had a similar issue or got any ideas?

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Looks perfect, should fit and if not Im sure with a dremel and araldite I can make it work :) will drop you a PM

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For Sale & Wanted / Re: FZS600 Breaking 2003
« on: 05 July 2016, 08:00:51 pm »
edit: sorted, thanks!

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As the title says I need a black knob!  :rollin (Ive got no idea what the part is actually called and Im well immature :P )


So I got on my Fazer thismorning and stabbed myself in the thumb on the metal switch when I went to put the indicator on at the end of the road, turns out this bit has somehow fallen off and disappeared into the void.
The metal pole/switch it covers is still there, its just the plastic cover has somehow fallen off!




Local bits shop says they arent sold seperately and my only choice via them is to buy a whole new switch assembly which I aint doing! :rolleyes


So does anyone happen to have a spare switch assembly lying around or breaking a Fazer that they could salvage the knob from?

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FZS600 Fazer / Re: Screens , Tall, Touring, Double bubble?
« on: 04 June 2016, 10:15:26 am »
Recently fitted a DB screen to my boxeye. Im about 5'10-11'ish and heres what Ive found so far compared to the standard screen:


- below 60, no difference whatsoever
- around 70ish theres a bit more wind noise/buffeting than usual if youre riding into the wind.
- above 80-85'ish and riding into the wind, unbearable wind noise and my helmet is being pushed back so far my nose is being squashed against my visor  :eek


So for legal motorway speeds, its fine. But for real motorway speeds, I find myself trying to tuck underneath the wind  to make it bearable, but thats not great on your back for long trips either. I'd probably switch back to the normal screen, or look at getting a bigger/flip up deflector... but I like the look of the DB too much  :rollin

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For Sale & Wanted / sold
« on: 03 June 2016, 09:26:59 am »
sold!

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