Hello
Changing the fork oil on a friends bike, as it hasn't been done for 10 years. So I am going to remove the forks,from the bike. Then I'm just going to let the oil drain with the forks upside down for a day or two. The springs just come out, don't they? As I don't fancy stripping the forks down. Then spary in some brake and clucth cleaner leave for a bit to evporate then maybe splash a bit of Isopropoly alcohol to clean the whole system out.
Or am I being stupid.
If anyone can please help. Had the throttle cables out months ago, before finally getting round to valve adjustment and ais removal. Now its time to put back together,. when fitting the coolant pipes that go into the cam cover. The piece at the top which the throttle cables cross, do the throttle cables go over or under the tube/hose. Or does one go over and one under neither really looks right . Any help much appreciated.
Hello,
Jut thought to join as I have been searching your forum for information whilst I work on a friends v reg MK1 faired fazer.
So far I have bought some wizzmoto braided lines on the forums recommendation.
Does anyone have a Haynes manual pdf for the fzs1000? I had a look at the downloads section of this forum (as well as other fazer forums) and have not been able to find one.
Looking for a decent engine front bracket, in good condition, seen some on the bay but no better than my one! Just want to do one up, paint it etc for a quick swap come the better weather, also not really got the room for leaving things dismantled for days.
Hi, I went to start my 2003 FZS 1000 last night and she just spun up and didn't fire. Now I use the bike every day for work all weathers and she never misses a beat.
I left it a couple of minutes and tried again, she did eventually fire up. I then rode 40 miles home down the motorway and went to fill up ready for work again today.
Bearing in mind the engine was hot and fully up to temperature after the 40 mile ride, the same thing happened again. She spun over and over but wouldn't fire up.
I waited a minute and tried again, no luck. Last time and a big handful of throttle and she fired up!
Any ideas guys?
I put a new battery on a couple of months ago and it spins up with plenty of power, so I know the battery is fine.
I have a feeling it may be the fuel pump as it is a hot and cold start issue but if anyone else has experienced the same thing I'd be interested to know what you found.
Well I know it’s probably been done to death and everybody has seen it multiple times.
But it’s nice to post when you’re modifying your bike and I wouldn’t be doing this if it wasn’t for this great resource because I wouldn’t have had a clue where to start so thankyou.
Am down the bottom of the world in New Zealand so parts are hard to come by, certainly couldn’t find an R6 shock here.
But thanks to eBay found a brand new 2021 shock that was pulled off a race bike next door in Australia for $240au by the time I got it here in my hands was $450nz which is probably about $220 pounds?
Went with 129mm dogbones which I made up myself from 30mm x 5mm stainless not cut out like dogbones just flat plate.
Saw somewhere else on here about using tophat washers to overcome the 12mm standard hole to the 10mm R6 top mount - great idea found a local company that makes them for castors got some that had a 3mm thick flange and according to my measurements the standard shock was 35mm wide at the top bush and the R6 was 30mm so I just needed to take .5mm off each flange to give me 2.5mm flanges.
They were about 5mm too long which was easy fixed with a grinder.
Best part is the tophat washers cost me $2.50nz each?
Due to the great info on here apart from making dogbones and modifying tophats the whole thing took about 20mins to swap shocks.
So all back together now have set sag at 33mm and clickers at standard until I go for a test ride and will tune from there.
So not really an info post as such but more of a thank you in general to this amazing resource we have?
Obviously more than happy to help with any questions ?
I need to pick the brains of the gurus over a starting issue.
I’ve had my budget bitch fox eye 6 months, bought as a non runner. A fuel drain and filter change, e5 with redex, a jump pack and a lot of winding over sprung it into life a few days later. I then started going through the service docs to check the specs of everything to eliminate the basics. Along with the filter change it’s had a new set of the correct spark plugs, NGK plug caps (old ones were out of spec for resisance), coil checks which read fine, a clean up of the wiring for the ignition barrel and the r/h switch assembly and the carbs swapped for some newly cleaned and bench synced ones.
She will start but it does involve choke, throttle and a lot of turning over. When started she revs well, pulls through the gears.
I’ve not run compression tests or checked valve clearances yet, unfortunately a lot of my free time is spent chasing round after a toddler at the minute ??
Are there any other common issues that I should look at before I go down the compression and clearance route?
