Are the stanchions the same on all years? (FZS600)

[Pike]

I'm ordering some stanchions from ABE for my 03 FZS600 and they've for down that the stanchions are the same across all years.


I know the later fazers have preload adjustment up front, so does this mean the stanchions are different sizes or are they the same?

[darrsi]

98-03 all have the same part number


Number 3    https://www.yamahamotorcyclespares.co.uk...fork?uID=0

[unfazed]

:agree They are all the same, including the baby 400.

What kind of price are they selling them for?

[Pike]

Great, thanks guys.


Only £80 per stanchion, plus £10 next day postage for the set.


Great, because the cheapest I could find elsewhere was £115+ each.

[unfazed]

That is good value, post a picture when you get them  :thumbup

[Pike]

Will do!

[Pike]

So I'm going to recommend avoiding ABE (All Bike Engineering) like the plague, unless maybe you have a custom bike that you can't find stanchions from elsewhere. (Read other reviews online)


The stanchions are essentially just tubes with threads tapped onto them. There is no shuttle inside them for the dampening rod to fit into, SO.. you have to use an angle grinder to grind the crimped edge off the stock stanchions, which is like 2mm thick, without damaging the shuttles, which isn't easy and if you damage them you're going to have to buy another paid of stanchions. To hold the shuttles in the new ones, you've either got to use a circlip which makes the shuttle rattle around a bit, or crimp the edge of the stanchions over.


Myself and the technician at the dealership I work at were both questioning whether it's even chromed, the metal is pretty dull, not as smooth as the 13 year old OEM ones. 


I'll post some pictures later. If anyone is considering them, I would stay away and buy some stanchions elsewhere, just ask whether the shuttle is provided and welded in, or if you have to engineer yours into there.

[Pike]

Here they are fitted.

[sinto607276]

Might of paid you just to get the original ones from Suttons or the like?

[Pike]

At £153 a tube I would say no, but I think perhaps Paolo Tarozzi's may have been better? (Not sure what they're like but they're about £113 each)