i need another bracket for my bike ("bracket 3" under the Marlboro sticker), its a 1986 fj1200 and i found a bracket at a local bike junkyard but its for a 1982 fj1100, i have no idea if it will fit or not, any ideas? heres the bracket:
(http://i1093.photobucket.com/albums/i429/chriscartermusic/Picture108.jpg?t=1300388136)
or can somebody send me a picture of their 1982ish FJ1100 please??? i just need to compare the brackets
Quote from: Carterc on March 17, 2011, 03:22:23 PM
or can somebody send me a picture of their 1982ish FJ1100 please??? i just need to compare the brackets
Yea, I would also like to see a picture of a 1982 FJ.
82 was a good year, just not for the FJ!
Hey Carter, just messin with you. First year for the Yamaha FJ was 1984. :rofl2:
Questions come up all the time about part interchangeability between model years so here's what a lot of us do. We go to the Zanotti website (or equal) and look up the part #'s and see if they are the same. If they are, then you're good to go.
http://www.yamaha-motor.com/sport/myyamaha/prompt/L3Nwb3J0L3BhcnRzL2hvbWUuYXNweA==/Parts%20Catalog/starthere.aspx (http://www.yamaha-motor.com/sport/myyamaha/prompt/L3Nwb3J0L3BhcnRzL2hvbWUuYXNweA==/Parts%20Catalog/starthere.aspx)
For example, look up the part # for your 1986 FJ1200, scroll down the left window and look for Stand-Footrest and click on those words which will pull up the diagram with the table showing the part #'s below. See #21 on the diagram? That's your side right bracket, now look in the table below and next to #21 which you see the official Yamaha part # 36Y 27443 for your part.
Now go to any other year Yamaha FJ's and look it up to compare that part number.
You can see that from 1984 to 1987 Yamaha used the same part number for your right side bracket.
This exercise is especially important if you want to buy anything off fleaBay. Always double check the seller when they say something will fit. Always.
Ok, class is over...Quiz on Friday. PM me your address and I will send you a extra bracket I have....consider it a welcoming present. Cheers! Paddy
hey Pat :biggrin:
I PM'ed you but it doesnt show up in my outbox, let me know if you get it or not, thanks!!!
Pat's also being mean.
http://www.boats.net/parts/search/Yamaha/Motorcycle/1986/FJ1200S/parts.html (http://www.boats.net/parts/search/Yamaha/Motorcycle/1986/FJ1200S/parts.html)
For whatever reason, that particular section doesn't work (the stand-footrest link), but it works for an 87 (http://www.boats.net/parts/search/Yamaha/Motorcycle/1987/FJ1200T/STAND%20-%20FOOTREST/parts.html) which is functionally the same bike. You can then find the part you want, click the part number, and see what other bikes shared that part number (http://www.boats.net/parts/detail/yamaha/Y-36Y-27443-00-00.html). One of the best places to find direct interchanges (though often, other years/parts will fit with a little tweaking).
I thought the 85 and 86 have the same bracket, but I'm too lazy to look up the part number.
post a pic of the part, maybe you have a late model one?
nope, i checked with the both websites they gave me and the part is the same, but i also was wondering what the difference in FJ1200S and FJ1200SC is
I believe the C models are california versions.
The S suffix is year specific. In the later bikes, an A suffix indicates ABS.
Quote from: Pat Conlon on March 17, 2011, 04:31:08 PM
Ok, class is over...Quiz on Friday. PM me your address and I will send you a extra bracket I have....consider it a welcoming present. Cheers! Paddy
Atta-boy Pat!
Way to step up and lend a hand!
By the way Carter, I was just shittin with you too, just being Pats slack-assed side kick!
Welcome to the club and best of luck with your FJ!
Leon
'92 bolts the exhaust to the frame('91 up, actually), '88-'90 bolts the exh. to that bracket, but behind the peg, not sure, but I think that '84-'87 all used the bracket with exh. bolted in front of the peg like yours.....
Good grief... how in the world did that get broken ?
was there contact between the swingarm and the brake master cylinder ?
Good onya PAddy fer helping a brother out, if you ever need one i have a spare of both sides with your name on it! :good2:
KOokaloo!
Frank
glad you asked, funny story actually. i bought the bike at a harley dealership, payed in cash, started walking it out to my trailer and a lady backed out of her space without looking and BOOM....she hit me, i layed the bike down as gently as possibly while getting run over myself, she booked it, never got a license plate number or anything! lifted the bike up, and the brake peg was gone (as you can see in the pic) and the bracket was cracked in two! but get this...the harley dealership said they would fit the bill, and its been 4 weeks with constant emails and calls on my part and not a SINGLE WORD back from them.... :dash2:
then Pat came along and offered me a bracket that i simply couldnt afford due to trying to fix the brake peg too (im young and dont gots much money ya see :negative:)
yay for saviors! you guys really have been so incredibly helpful and generous :hi:
Hey Chris, got your PM. Bracket's in the mail tomorrow......Glad to help. I got it. I don't need it. I 'aint using it, so you can have it. My wife thanks you.
Did I ever tell you the story about a fellow FJ'er who was riding across country and in the middle of Wyoming (??) his alternator went out on this FJ and he was stuck. Dead battery stuck. The closest Yamaha shop was ~75 miles away and they said that it would take then a week to get a alternator to him, at some totally insane price. A week, in BFE, Wyoming. The guy didn't have the money to rent a car and a uHaul trailer, let alone a hotel room.
This guy happened to find the local public library and logged on to the internet and posted a SOS on the yahoo FJ forum.
I'll never forget the response.
We were discussing how to help him, going out to Wyoming to pick him up, etc, etc. and while this discussion was taking place one of our FJ brothers took matters into his own hands. Jon Cain simply went out to his garage and took the alternator OFF his FJ and overnight mailed it to BFE Wyoming.
Problem solved. The traveler made it home safe and sound and mailed the alternator back to Jon.
That's the type of people we have here.....That's how we roll.
definitely have to look out for each other.... :good2:
Our network worked pretty good when Henry had his deer strike on the southern part of skyline dr also.
good karma goes a long way.... pay it forward whenever you get a chance.
KOokaloo!
Yea, I remember that, what's it been, 10-15 years now? What a mess. Didn't he cut the deer in half? Even though hurt, he was still very very lucky.
Those bloody pictures....aggggghh.
holy cow, well im thankful i stumbled across such a great group of people with an ad-less website!
(and plus i like all the smiley faces...those are fun :yahoo:)
"Our network worked pretty good when Henry had his deer strike on the southern part of skyline dr also."
Remember Nobby's ignition problem on his 89 FJ several years ago. Calvin took off of work, went and got his trailer, picked up Nobby and his bike. He took him home and changed all mater of parts, fed him and let Nobby ride his 97 to boone the next day. Once Calvin and Nobby's bike showed up in Boone a pit crew of folks had it running in minutes. I'd like to see another group more willing to help a brother out....
I remember a few years ago when Marsh offered to send me his fuel pump when mine died the day before I was to ride to Indy for the first ever Moto GP races.
Great folks indeed!!!!!
Eric M
i cant find it in my clymers manual, can i just take the bracket off by itself? or do i have to take other things off while its on a center stand or something?
thanks for the help!
also, what do think this was for?
(http://i1093.photobucket.com/albums/i429/chriscartermusic/d2327733.jpg)
You can take your right side bracket off without removing the swing arm pivot bolt. Just take the nut off. (Note: it's different to remove the left side bracket, you have to remove the swing arm pivot bolt)
IOW everything should just unbolt and the bracket will come off
You need to unbolt the rear brake master cylinder (just unbolt and let it hang, don't disconnect the lines) and stoplight switch and remove all the NOS switches and pressure gauge
I suspect the red NOS switch and light on the left side is for a bottle heater. Cheers
Quote from: Pat Conlon on March 19, 2011, 11:30:43 AM
I suspect the red NOS switch and light on the left side is for a bottle heater. Cheers
I was going to guess either the smoke screen or the oil slick... but Pat is probably right.
Quote from: Marsh White on March 19, 2011, 12:13:19 PM
I was going to guess either the smoke screen or the oil slick... but Pat is probably right.
hahaha i hope thats what it is!!
FedEx tracking# 796889975370 arriving there on Wednesday afternoon. Cheers.
woohoo! :drinks:
I was equally curious as to what all those switches are for. Three switches and a guage? I'm guessing the same as Pat. Interesting place to put them though.
yah i really have to reach to get them, and why would you take your hand off the throttle to hit the nos? isnt that counter productive?
Exactly. I would never run NOS on a bike, but if I did I would put it a lot closer. Maybe it was l.e.d. lights?
Heh heh, no Chris you don't reach down.
When the giggle gas hits you don't even think of taking your hands off the bars.
The bottle heater on the left is used intermittently it draws a lot of wattage, the gas and fuel switches on the right (assuming a wet system) activate the system and are set to "on" before the run. The gauge reads bottle pressure.
There should be a button on the left handgrip which fires the system. Don't see it? I bet your horn doesn't work huh?
The horn button is the most convenient button to hot wire for a NOS system.
THATS WHY MY HORN DOESNT WORK!?!? :dash2:
how do i un-hotwire it then? lol
what a pain in the ass a suped up bike can be! :ireful:
Guessing there would be a switch for arming the nitrous, turning the airshifter on, compressor for the shifter, guage for pressure on air, gauge for pressure on nitrous. Is possible to have a bottle heater but it's rare to see on bikes, usually a car thing instead.
Bikes don't generally carry enough nitrous to last more than 2-3 passes at best, so most guys will bring multiple bottles with them to the track, and frequently a separate heating assembly.
Airshifter is usually on the horn side, nitrous on the starter button.
Quote from: Pat Conlon on March 17, 2011, 11:43:54 PM
Did I ever tell you the story about a fellow FJ'er who was riding across country and in the middle of Wyoming (??) his alternator went out on this FJ and he was stuck. Dead battery stuck. The closest Yamaha shop was ~75 miles away and they said that it would take then a week to get a alternator to him, at some totally insane price. A week, in BFE, Wyoming. The guy didn't have the money to rent a car and a uHaul trailer, let alone a hotel room.
This guy happened to find the local public library and logged on to the internet and posted a SOS on the yahoo FJ forum.
I'll never forget the response.
We were discussing how to help him, going out to Wyoming to pick him up, etc, etc. and while this discussion was taking place one of our FJ brothers took matters into his own hands. Jon Cain simply went out to his garage and took the alternator OFF his FJ and overnight mailed it to BFE Wyoming.
Problem solved. The traveler made it home safe and sound and mailed the alternator back to Jon.
That's the type of people we have here.....That's how we roll.
Pat,
You've got all the FJ facts correct, but that happened in Texas. The guy came down from Colorado, bought the FJ in Houston and was riding it back to Colorado when the alternator went out. My wife was on the way to 600 Racing in Ft. Worth to get a new alternator from them when Jon stepped up and overnighted one to the guy.
Great story and typical of this group.
DavidR.
Ok thanks David. I was going by memory....not too bad considering I survived the sixties. I recall we had multiple rescue attempts going that day.
Sooo... just substitute BFE Wyoming with BFE Texas...
Yea, BFE Texas works better. Can you see it? Visualize your new FJ stranded in BFE Texas, a tiny town, one stoplight and intersection with blowing dust and tumbleweeds. Forlorn, sitting inside the corner cafe looking out the fly specked window at your broken FJ, while drinking 8 hour old coffee poured by a waitress in a grease smeared blouse who is giving you a brown toothed smile. Yea, BFE Texas works...