Hi everyone.


I've just got the Fazer all back in one piece and started it up for the first time today. It runs but I've got fuel pissing out of the carb breather pipe between carbs 1 and 2. I checked the exhaust downpipes, pipe 1 was cold, 2 was warm, 3 and 4 were hot. The fuel only leaks out when it's actually running, not when stopped, not even when the ignition is on and the fuel pump is running up.


The engine is a replacement that I got off ebay and this was the first time I've started it. I drained the carbs before taking them off last October and they've been stored in a shoebox indoors since then.


Any ideas what the problem might be?


Many thanks,
Andy

Hi Everyone,


Just wanted to share this, which I found in Homebase today. It's a furniture leg, it cost me around four quid and it's exactly the right size to install the bottom head bearing onto the shaft. It had a plastic foot on the bottom which you need to remove, and the top is a metal plate perfect for hitting with a hammer.


It also comes in a variety of colours. 


Andy

In September, motorcyclespareparts.eu had a 10% discount sale, and as the fuel tank on my rolling-restoration Fazer is in a pretty sorry state, I decided this was a good time to splash out on a new one. I ordered it through their website, and in due course they confirmed that it had arrived and was on-route to me via DHL. It arrived a couple of weeks ago, but when I unpacked it I discovered that at some point on its journey from Athens (apparently) to me via Germany it had been dropped or hit and sustained a dent in the top right corner. Ar$e  . I phoned MSP, and then emailed a couple of photos of the damage and they said, "No problem, send it back and we'll order you another one." So I sent it back (at their cost, naturally) and waited, although they'd already told me that there were no more available in Europe, so it'd have to come from Japan  .


Unfortunately MSP have now informed me that there aren't any available in Japan either.


The fairly happy ending is that I've been able to negotiate a decent price for the damaged one with MSP, and they're now sending it back to me again.
So, kudos to MSP for doing their best to sort this out, and always being quick to respond. But    to the careless courier who managed to put a dent in what appears to be possibly the last brand-new FZS600 fuel tank on the planet .

 I'm new to the forum, so Hi Everyone! I recently bought a 2002 Fazer 600 which is a bit tatty and needs a bit of work which I plan to start properly over the winter. This is a return to biking for me after around a 12 year absence. My last bike was.... a 2002 Fazer 600 which I bought brand new. The new one's the wrong colour, but other than that I'm well happy.