Author Topic: HELP - unknown bolts (Read 1851 times)

wezzy Boy · « **on:** 30 June 2023, 08:46:36 am »

I have stripped my bike and put it back together of the past 3 years.

I have a 2002 fzs600

I have 5 bolts left over and not a clue where they are from.

Can anyone help identify them?

There are five and I am assuming they came from the same area

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vinnyb · « **Reply #1 on:** 04 July 2023, 11:26:30 pm »

Hi wezzy. How about taking it out for ride and seeing what falls off, and that's where they were supposed to be, and if nothing falls off they're obviously not that important. Hope this helps.

wezzy Boy · « **Reply #2 on:** 05 July 2023, 07:00:18 am »

Lol.
I might just do that.

I think I have just used the wrong bolts in the wrong places and used spare bolts when the ones I had left didn’t fit.

I’m sure they will just be spare now

Thanks for replying

Grahamm · « **Reply #3 on:** 05 July 2023, 12:49:07 pm »

I can't help you with this as such, but I saw a great tip on Facebook a while back.

Get a piece of cardboard and draw a sketch outline of the parts you're working on.

Every time you remove a bolt etc, you stick it through the cardboard in the place it came from, that way, when you reassemble everything, you know what goes where

wezzy Boy · « **Reply #4 on:** 05 July 2023, 01:12:34 pm »

Great idea thanks

I did take pictures of some of the bolts I was removing but didn’t for all of them.

Silly me

fazersharp · « **Reply #5 on:** 06 July 2023, 11:22:24 am »

They look to me to be engine casing type bolts, sprocket cover ? If you have ended up with them because you mixed up your own bolts for ones that came off the bike then the slightly worrying thing is that they are different lengths for a reason and your bolts will not be the same length --- shorter or longer than they should be.

limax2 · « **Reply #6 on:** 06 July 2023, 12:00:26 pm »

They look like 6mm bolts, in which case as fazersharp says possibly engine cover bolts. To me they look a bit short for the sprocket cover but could possibly be from the alternator cover.

wezzy Boy · « **Reply #7 on:** 06 July 2023, 01:14:56 pm »

I believe I have them 100 % correct as I took pictures of those.
I will have another look around the bike just to make sure though.

They wouldn’t be from inside the engine would they? I stripped the top off but I’m sure I put them all back in.

I took the sump off too but all bolts look fine in there

Thanks for this help chaps

I have attached a photo of the sprocket housing bolt next to the spare bolts as a comparison

The only bolts I was so sure about were the two that hold the instrument panel to the frame. I’ve added a picture of that too. Two of them could be from there.

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vinnyb · « **Reply #8 on:** 06 July 2023, 05:21:15 pm »

The hex bolt in the top pic is definitely not right. They never fit longer bolts than they need to. If that is the fairing hanger bracket I believe they are mushroom headed Allen bolts

basher · « **Reply #9 on:** 06 July 2023, 06:24:15 pm »

two smaller ones hold in the ignition for the key

wezzy Boy · « **Reply #10 on:** 07 July 2023, 04:00:59 pm »

I believe I have found the answer

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Footpeg bolts

And I used the mushroom bolts in the foot pegs so now I need to think what the other two are from

Probably something to do with the back box which hasn’t gone back on

fazersharp · « **Reply #11 on:** 07 July 2023, 04:13:25 pm »

Could this be the new forum quiz to take over he picture challenge.
Identify My Nuts challange

vinnyb · « **Reply #12 on:** 07 July 2023, 06:36:05 pm »

Excellent idea Sharpy, Should we post our pics in the Naughty corner?

The two threaded holes on the bottom yoke are for the front brake splitter but that uses flanged hex head M5 bolts.

wezzy Boy · « **Reply #13 on:** 07 July 2023, 06:54:58 pm »

I don’t use the splitter anymore so they are redundant.

darrsi · « **Reply #14 on:** 07 July 2023, 08:46:36 pm »

Quote from: fazersharp on 06 July 2023, 11:22:24 am

They look to me to be engine casing type bolts, sprocket cover ? If you have ended up with them because you mixed up your own bolts for ones that came off the bike then the slightly worrying thing is that they are different lengths for a reason and your bolts will not be the same length --- shorter or longer than they should be.

Sprocket cover has 2 longer bolts, not 3.

wezzy Boy · « **Reply #15 on:** 07 July 2023, 10:08:36 pm »

Thanks for your help guys I have found where everything goes now.

wezzy Boy · « **Reply #16 on:** 07 July 2023, 10:29:25 pm »

Im telling porkies.

I now have the two bolts that I was using in the fairing hanger

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Unknown bolt

wezzy Boy · « **Reply #17 on:** 11 July 2023, 08:25:10 pm »

Yay…

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Bike 2

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Bike

3 years later I’m sort of done

fazersharp · « **Reply #18 on:** 11 July 2023, 10:04:09 pm »

Nice pictures but I am pretty sure I can see 5 bolt missing

fazersharp · « **Reply #19 on:** 11 July 2023, 10:07:54 pm »

Also they are the most wavyest most wavy discs I have ever seen --- they are wavy Mc wavy for sure

wezzy Boy · « **Reply #20 on:** 12 July 2023, 09:38:42 am »

Lol 😊