31-01-17, 12:15 AM
(30-01-17, 11:10 PM)tommyardin link Wrote: Yamaha put their hands up to that fault and have replaced free of charge the 9 mm nut with a 12 mm nut when bikes went in for a service or maintenance
Mine never got replaced at service or maintenance.
When I went to purchase the 12mm nut at the dealers they didn't seem to be aware of the issue at all.
They tried to sell me the old 9mm nut until I handed them the part number for the uprated one and asked them to just order that, rather than keep referencing back to parts list.
The independent garage I currently use knew all about the situation when I took the nut kit to them for fitting
Hi YamFazFan,
A request went out to all Official Yamaha dealerships telling them to replace the nut and washer as a matter of course whenever an FZS 600 came into their workshops to have work done to them, and the replacement was free, and the workshop was to put a centre punch mark after the info on the frame plate near the steering head. There was never an official call back as it was deemed to be a relatively small number of machines afflicted with this fault/problem and judging by the numbers of FZS 600 still about some 14 to 19 years later it sort of bears this out. And to be honest if this wasn't the case would we be the proud owners of our bikes or would we all be on Honda or Quackers.
Hi tommyyardin
I wonder if because my Fazer was one of the last in the production run it wasn't affected by this issue?.
The original 9mm nut never came adrift thankfully, but it's got to be a good idea to fit the uprated nut anyway isn't it.