Need help with a fairing bracket thingy...

[Beeblebrox2nd]

Hi there folks.
I'm currently (slowly) turning my Fazer back from being streetfightered into a standard, faired model but I have come upon a problem. The guy who streetfightered it originally seems to have cut off the bit of metal on the front yolk/forks that holds the fairing onto the frame. If anyone has easy access to this bit, would they be a gent (or indeed, lady!) and provide me with dimensions for it so I can get a new piece forged and welded on.
There should be a couple of pics below, showing the steering head and whereabouts it should be attached to, and what it bolts onto.

It's the bit that should stick out from the steering head and has the clock surround frame bolt to it.
If I'm not making myself clear, then please say so, cause I wouldn't want you to think I'm like that guy who changed his boxeye light unit and didn't show anyone how to...

Also, it's 5:26am, I haven't slept yet, and I have to get to work in 2 hours...
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!

[noggythenog]

Greetings Beeblebrox




I'm all for helping but the thi g is it's pissing with rain & howling a gale plus pitch black out in the shed & i gotta go to work at 0530am tomoz.




So im up against it.




To top it off my engineering expertise leaves much to be desired.




However if you wait til thursday afternoon after my last night shift & send me a message ill go take a look with a tape measure & send you a pic, my bike is naked so easy access to these bits.




Let me know.


Nog

[Beeblebrox2nd]

Nog, that'd be champion of you!

[adeejaysdelight]

It could work out to cost the same as having something made mate...


http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Yamaha-FZS600-Fazer-FZS-600-MK1-front-sub-frame-upper-fairing-cowl-bracket-/111273464202?pt=UK_Motorcycle_Parts_13&hash=item19e86a518a

[noggythenog]

It could work out to cost the same as having something made mate...


http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Yamaha-FZS600-Fazer-FZS-600-MK1-front-sub-frame-upper-fairing-cowl-bracket-/111273464202?pt=UK_Motorcycle_Parts_13&hash=item19e86a518a

I think he's on about the bit that this sub frame attaches to Adee..well at least that's how i've interpreted it..i thought someone had sliced it off from the bike.


Can you confirm lord beeblebrox2nd???

[ChristoT]

It could work out to cost the same as having something made mate...


http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Yamaha-FZS600-Fazer-FZS-600-MK1-front-sub-frame-upper-fairing-cowl-bracket-/111273464202?pt=UK_Motorcycle_Parts_13&hash=item19e86a518a

I think he's on about the bit that this sub frame attaches to Adee..well at least that's how i've interpreted it..i thought someone had sliced it off from the bike.


Can you confirm lord beeblebrox2nd???

That's how I read it, and also fits in with the pic he's posted up!

[noggythenog]

Ok geezer good luck trying to make one from these pics.


I had to hold a full size ipad as camera in my right with 4 fingers & my thumb hovering over the far right hand side as the camera whilst trying to get the tape measure in there.




Gives you a rough idea anyway.




Mind you need a hole through the middle or top so that the little notchy bit sits inside it & reduces the strain on the bolts holding it on otherwise i reckon the frame would slide on the bolts with all the pressure from the weight of the fairing (see pics).3 pics per message.

[noggythenog]

3 more.

[noggythenog]

Here we go again.

[noggythenog]

It was a bit fiddly, the tape measure was too chunky to fit in amongst all the crap and lie flush.

[Beeblebrox2nd]

That wee lump's exactly the piece that I need.
You're a star Noggy.
I've a mate who can cut/weld bits of metal to create a rough looking version of that, so with those pics, can try to make up a couple of brackets to fit. Hopefully one of them will be spot on. It's just whether or not I can get it welded onto the right spot on the frame!