Hi,
Not entirely sure if this is suitable to post here. Engine went today, left bike at side of motorway. If anyone has the facilities to pick the bike up, it's theirs (Scotland)

Location: M90, south of Bridge of Earl heading Northbound:  http://goo.gl/maps/XwblM

Edit: Gumtree being awkward, will re-edit with link to gumtree ad soon.

Hi there,

I'm pretty stumped on this one, long story short a few months ago my fazer decided life was too much and gave up the ghost. Ended up with new downpipes, a replacement cylinder head and a rebuild project.

The new cylinder head is bolted down and I'm completely stuck at the cam timing. Everytime I get the engine timed up, it just won't turn, it feels completely locked, I dared to give it a little more pressure once and it slipped off the bottom cam sprocket 

Both guides are in and the cam chain tensioner is in, I've looked at various videos on how to do it on thundercat engines and have read up on the various threads here related to the issue, I have no idea what's going wrong.

I transferred the shims from my old head into the replacement cylinder head as I planned to use my old cams as they were in better condition, but I've tried with both sets of cams with the same problem.

For what its worth, the engine turns fine without the cams in, I have not replaced the camchain (30,000 miles) as I simply don't have the funds at the moment, however I'd say it has a good 10-20k left in it judging by the tensioner position when it came out and how tight the cam chain was.

My next plan is to move onto the unlikely stuff, e.g try it without the guides to see if it's getting caught on them, and try smaller shims, it's worth noting that all the buckets push down freely.

Any ideas? 

Hi, in the process of cleaning up the revolting mess one of the previous owners decided to make of the harness, I came across 2 connectors on the harness that aren't connected to anything. I've looked at the wiring diagram for the 2002 model but can't seem to find them on it. Can anyone else identify these?

The first connector is near the battery compartment, adjacent to the fusebox, it appears to be shorted with a metal plate:

http://thoronir.net/photo/Fazer_Connector0.jpg

The second connector is at the left side of the taillight, next to the inline fuse for the rear indicators, and it appears to be capped:
(The one on the right)

http://thoronir.net/photo/Fazer_Connector1.jpg

Beyond this, does anyone know how to remove the datatool system? Apparently the original fobbed key snapped many owners ago, and someone (Yamaha garage apparently) made a completely half arsed attempt at disabling it. They disabled the alarm alright, but they also made a particularly disgusting mess of the harness which I'd like to clean up, aswell as regain the space that ugly datatool box takes.

Here's a picture of the messy wiring harness, the actual datatool alarm is just off-screen to the right.

http://thoronir.net/photo/Fazer_Datatool_Mess.jpg


P.S: Is there a way to insert images here with img tags, and set them to a fixed (smaller) size? The standard bbcode method doesn't seem to work.


Edit: So the first connector is actually the sidestand plug, still looking for the second one though.