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Bikes, Hints'n'Tips => FZS600 Fazer => Topic started by: peacey on 02 August 2013, 12:23:51 am

Title: Inlet rubber problem...
Post by: peacey on 02 August 2013, 12:23:51 am
Hello all, well just got a fazer 600 and the inlet rubbers are cracked, with the far right hand side one cracked fully through sucking in air, does anybody have any good second hand ones they want to sell to me?  :D
Title: Re: Inlet rubber problem...
Post by: darrsi on 02 August 2013, 06:28:43 am
http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_odkw=fzs+600+inlet+rubber&_osacat=0&_from=R40&_trksid=p2045573.m570.l1313&_nkw=fzs+600+air+box+rubber&_sacat=0 (http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_odkw=fzs+600+inlet+rubber&_osacat=0&_from=R40&_trksid=p2045573.m570.l1313&_nkw=fzs+600+air+box+rubber&_sacat=0)


Are these what you mean, or carb to engine rubbers?
Title: Re: Inlet rubber problem...
Post by: Punkstig on 02 August 2013, 08:11:49 am
Sounds like he's talking about carb to inlet ones, they're on eBay for about £70, bite the bullet and buy new, no doubts about wether they'll be ok or not then!
Title: Re: Inlet rubber problem...
Post by: lds1973 on 02 August 2013, 08:12:09 am
http://www.wemoto.com/bikes/yamaha/fzs_600_fazer/98-99/picture/carburettor_to_engine_inlet_rubbers/ (http://www.wemoto.com/bikes/yamaha/fzs_600_fazer/98-99/picture/carburettor_to_engine_inlet_rubbers/)
Title: Re: Inlet rubber problem...
Post by: darrsi on 02 August 2013, 10:20:20 am
Was gonna say they're a bit cheaper on Ebay.
Why is a bit of rubber so bloody expensive though??  :rolleyes
Title: Re: Inlet rubber problem...
Post by: His Dudeness on 02 August 2013, 02:00:25 pm
Was gonna say they're a bit cheaper on Ebay.
Why is a bit of rubber so bloody expensive though??  :rolleyes

The price of tooling for plastic and rubber parts is massive. A mould for those intake manifolds could easily be half a million
Title: Re: Inlet rubber problem...
Post by: fazersharp on 14 August 2013, 12:32:10 pm
what about fixing with some of that self almaulgamating (spelling) tape
Title: Re: Inlet rubber problem...
Post by: darrsi on 14 August 2013, 01:54:56 pm
what about fixing with some of that self almaulgamating (spelling) tape

That would work, although it's a bit unsightly to look at.
Title: Re: Inlet rubber problem...
Post by: fazersharp on 14 August 2013, 03:27:07 pm
Not if you do it neatly like--- erm the tape on your old racer bike handle bars or the tape on an old tennis raquet, sor of a slow spiral 
Title: Re: Inlet rubber problem...
Post by: darrsi on 14 August 2013, 03:43:07 pm
Not if you do it neatly like--- erm the tape on your old racer bike handle bars or the tape on an old tennis raquet, sor of a slow spiral

I use it daily for minor repairs on cables, any dirt, grit or shit will stick to it like glue, it will look like crap in no time out in the elements!
Title: Re: Inlet rubber problem...
Post by: Dead Eye on 14 August 2013, 06:58:14 pm
Had this wrapped around the wing mirror on an old Peugeot 306 to hold it on and it never got caked in any crap :)
Title: Re: Inlet rubber problem...
Post by: fazersharp on 14 August 2013, 07:36:24 pm
Had this wrapped around the wing mirror on an old Peugeot 306 to hold it on and it never got caked in any crap :)
Not if you do it neatly like--- erm the tape on your old racer bike handle bars or the tape on an old tennis raquet, sor of a slow spiral

I use it daily for minor repairs on cables, any dirt, grit or shit will stick to it like glue, it will look like crap in no time out in the elements!
Could give it a try still as it is quite protected there
Title: Re: Inlet rubber problem...
Post by: Hedgetrimmer on 14 August 2013, 08:07:42 pm
Is there no kind of sealing solution that can be "painted" on, whether permanent or temporary?
Title: Re: Inlet rubber problem...
Post by: darrsi on 14 August 2013, 09:00:12 pm
Heat shrink, the glue type!
Title: Re: Inlet rubber problem...
Post by: Dead Eye on 15 August 2013, 09:24:09 am
Could use black silicon?

I used this to seal a leaking sunroof on one of my Mark II Golf GTi's :D

Not pretty, but it worked ;)
Title: Re: Inlet rubber problem...
Post by: mars696 on 15 August 2013, 10:01:29 am
I have my old inlet rubbers,they are cracked but only on surface.
I can send them to you for free,you will pay only postage from Greece. ;)

Title: Re: Inlet rubber problem...
Post by: darrsi on 15 August 2013, 10:22:02 am
Could use black silicon?

I used this to seal a leaking sunroof on one of my Mark II Golf GTi's :D

Not pretty, but it worked ;)

Black silicon, then wrap self amalgamating tape over it then seal it with glue heat shrink.
Job's a good'un.......  :lol
Title: Re: Inlet rubber problem...
Post by: peacey on 16 August 2013, 01:02:17 pm
Well i've bit the bullett and bought some new ones on ebay, made by tourmax and just as good as yamaha ones, what a b*stard to fit though...