Where the fff did this come from?

[SteveCardiff]

Hiya guys, been yonks since i've been on here, hope you're all doing well.


Just preparing my daughters 02 Fazer for our coming tour and had to (or thought I had to) strip and clean the carbs out due to it running like a bag of shit. It's been stood since the end of 2011 so my initial thought was the carbs being gummed up. They were bloody spotless! Typical.


Anyway, had the carbs stripped of all their jets etc and stored the parts nicely in numbered containers etc, had tops, float bowls, pipe work, idle control cable etc off and was just preparing to blow the carbs through with some air when I picked up the carbs and found this piece on the bench under the carbs. My guess is that it's off the idle cable assembly but i'm not 100% sure. Can anyone help me and tell me exactly where it's from? Got a microfische link I can look at??


Cheers guys, here's the pic







Incidentaly, it would have been Rosebud's birthday today. I'm sure she's fondly remembered by you as much as me. Gonna raise a glass or two in her memory tonight 

[darrsi]

http://www.yamahamotorcyclespares.co.uk/genuineparts/9796/11/yamaha%20fzs%20600%20fazer%2000-03/carburetor?uID=0

[His Dudeness]

It's an 8mm spanner, goes in the tool box beside the 9mm

[darrsi]

It's an 8mm spanner, goes in the tool box beside the 9mm

 

[humbucker88]

Looks like the dowel that sits on the screw on the clamps that go on the carb to head rubbers....did that make any sense?

http://www.yamahamotorcyclespares.co.uk/genuineparts/9796/10/yamaha%20fzs600%20fazer/intake?uid=0

Item number 6, a dowel sits on the screw (presumably to prevent overclamping) they're very easily to lose but not really nessecary...

[SteveCardiff]

Lol, cheers guys.

So i'm guessing no-one really knows where it's from or what it does. It's not off the carb rubber brackets humbucker.

[unfazed]

It looks like the collar that goes through the rubber  damper under the rear tank bracket which hinges the tank.

[SteveCardiff]

Mystery solved 
 
The carb top on No1 uses a different screw than all the others to hold a bracket in place. The brass collar fits into the hole on the carb top to prevent the screw being overtightend and breaking edge of the carb top. (need to get home and loosen that screw lol)
 
Cheers guys.