Lovely ride back from Uni today until I went down two cogs on the approach to a corner, let the clutch up and is sounds horrible as if the gears are not meshing properly. Cant move the gear selector at all so glided to a halt and got trailered home.
Took the clutch apart and nothing amiss there - sounds like it is trying to select two gears at once though, very jerky drive when easing out the clutch.....HELP!
basically 2nd gear is focced
Sounds more like a bent or broken selector fork to me.
Either way it's an engine-out, crankcase-split job to get it fixed.
A second hand engine may be the cheaper option unless you do the work yourself.
Sorry to hear about your misfortune, rangrally. I hope that theres not too much damage and its fixes easilly and cheaply. The Fazer seems to be a reliable bike and looking at the posts its rare to find anything major failing like a geabox but I do wonder if the gearbox is a weakness in Yamaha's R&D as Ive seen a few TDM's, TRX's and the old XS1100's advertised mentioning 2nd gear problems a bit like you see alternator problems mentioned on old Suzukis.
Pulled the donkey out today and dropped the sump pan.......full of gear teeth :'(
I now want a complete engine and box, low mileage perfect condition and very cheap please (oh also nearer to Chesterfield, Derbyshire the better!) :eek
Talk to Deefer on here, I had an engine from him last year for good money and he is based near Kettering off the A14. He can normal fit it for you as well. Good luck!
Dropped the donkey in: got one from Bike Spares in Hull - 15,000 miles minus starter £275. It starts but is lumpy and the carbs are pissing fuel everywhere (they were leaking a little before I swapped the engine)
GROAAAAAANNNNNNN!
Purchased another set of carbs and it runs pretty well (at a standstill at least) but the tacho is now playing up - any ideas?
Try your throttle position sensor (It the wire coming of the side of the carbs) The rev counter does a trouble shoot program i think its up to 3000 rpm for throttle sensor. plug your old carbs back into it. If that stops it swap them over. its two screws. Make marks around the screws before changing the sensor is critical to the running of the engine. wrong place it runs like crap. Its easy to do take lots of pictures on ya phone before you start. Hope it helps.
![[Image: 242673.png]](http://badges.fuelly.com/images/smallsig-uk/242673.png)
![[Image: 174802.png]](http://badges.fuelly.com/images/smallsig-uk/174802.png)
Although I am still awaiting getting the engine in as I don't have the experiance to do it :/ And don't have the funds available at the moment to get the local garage to do it as there wanting £250 ! Althoughh I do wish you luck in Finding the lump as the dreadful slip of 2nd Happened to mine. But I will be back on the fazer hopefully soon 
