Hi all,
I tried to adjust the slack of the cable at the engine end this weekend, but my offset ring spanners were not offset enough to get a good hold on the locking nut...
Any one had this issue before?  What do people use here?
Cheers,
EdC

Hi all, hope your having a nice break over Easter.

Got a quick question and hoping someone can answer or advise me on it. Washed the bike down yesterday and got a wheel brush in underneath, have trouble getting down due to a back injury. Anyway today I did my normal routine of checking all the nuts, bolts and screws make sure nothing is loose and while looking on the underside best I could I noticed something on the shock which I never have before.

I have seen a shock like this before many years ago, was by design but aftermarket and could be stripped and rebuilt but I got no idea is this is the same type of thing or if it should be like it which is why I am asking for advice as I don't even know if it is an original Yamaha or aftermarket.

On the bottom of the shock it looks like a piece has broken off, there are a couple of small stones in the bottom of the shock so be easy to spot not to mention the gap. I can't get fully under the bike but from what I could see it looked broken as the shock had black dirt on it and the bit I assume broken had shiny sides or so I thought. I tried my best to get a camera under and took a couple of pictures for you to see what I mean and well the bit I thought was shiny is black the same as the rest of it.

The bike is a 1999 model so hoping someone on here has one or had one so knows what they are looking at. So the questions are is it broken, is it supposed to be like that and if not can it be stripped and rebuilt?

Thanks for any advice anyone can give me

where is the best place for me to buy oil and filters online as i dont have a local shop to buy them from. i have seen oil filters on ebay for £5 and 4 litre of mobil 1 extra 4T 10W40 4 stroke semi synthetic oil for £23.99 or i could buy 4 1 litre bottles of shell advance SX 4T 4 stroke 10w40 oil. or is there a better place to buy them? thanx
 

Though I no longer have a Fazer, I do still keep visiting the forum and enjoy reading the posts :-)

Just wondered if anyone else had had a fab weekend with all this lovely (but cold) weather?
I had a brilliant time floating around Lancashire and North Yokshire. MORE PIX HERE

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hi guys its been a long time since ive posted in this site and not at all since ive rejoined , I have a small problem bike runs as sweet as a nut apart from using alittle oil ,shes done 27000 miles 2001 vintage  ,but today found oil in coolant ,now the question im dreading the answer too ,head gasket ? or possible be something else ?hope someone can shed some light on this ,regards simon

I will be enjoying the vin rouge (or beer) in Charchigne.


Off to France with my eldest for a few days abusing the French roads on our motorbikes. Should be an enlightening trip for him as he only passed his test in August and as never driven/ridden abroad.

Solved... in the end it was the battery. Turns it the last time I took off the tank I forgot to turn the fuel tap back on. The moral is check the battery first!

Long time lurker first time poster.
A little while ago jackasses tried to hotwire my bike without removing the chain so after failing they knocked it over. A guy fixed it for me but since then its always been hard to start. A whole lot of running the starter, throttle, turn off the bike, turn back on, repeat until after three or four goes it will come to life, sometimes with white smoke other times with a backfire. So what's going on? Just went for a ride turned it off and couldn't get it to start a second after turning it off.

Other threads talk about a breather hose but 02s don't have them.

I took a look at the spark plugs and they look fine though they seemed a little oily or was it fuely?

Thanks for the help

Edit so I bought a 1994 ducati monster and decided to see what would happen if I just boosted it... started right away. So that means its the battery that knsckered or the alternator isn't doing its job because it doesn't run indefinitely after a while the revs die. So going to get another battery and see if that solves it!

Edit 2: its not battery... maybe it was part of the problem but not the full problem... so what am I missing

So far I have

Changed the battery
Changed the spark plugs
Changed the Cdi
Changed the starter cut off relay
Checked the fuel tap
Check the hit coils
Checked the pick up coils
Checked the alternator {visibly fine but the resistance is a little high 0.6 ohm for every wire.)
Am I missing anything?

The bike now sparks "weakly" and if I hold the starter it rumbles but still cant get it to idle... is it not getting the compression needed? I went back to my original cdi.

I've got my Caberg Helmet on e bay at the moment, £75 starting bid
A bargain for someone heartbreaking for me.

Looking for a (Black) rear hugger for a 98 model 600.

Anything going?

Cheers

Stevie