Welcome to the family Filsurs,

You'll probably realise that we're not all on here every day, but most of us pop in regularly. Hope all goes well with your FJ and you thoroughly enjoy riding and working on it.

Quote from: filsurs on November 11, 2025, 08:34:54 AMHi all, hru doing? I want to replace my Light bulbs on my FJ 1200 ABS. As anybody a "How to..."? Thxs

I don't have a "How to", but it's easy enough to do - remove the horn and then you get easy access to the headlight rubber cover, remove the connector, the cover and unclip and pull out the headlight bulb. Pop in the new one and reverse the steps you've just taken.

The Stop/Tail-light bulbs are just as simple - remove the seat, take out the tool pouch, pull down the cover behind where the pouch was to get to the bulb holders, twist anti-clockwise and pull out, replace the bulbs and then put everything back in the reverse order again.

Hope this helps.

Sorry, just realised its the dashboard lights you're asking about - but again, fairly straightforward.

Remove the screen, air scoops, choke knob, lower infill panels and instrument surround. Undo all of the fairing screws and the two bolts either side of the headlight, remove the fairing and then you have access to back of the instruments to change the bulbs. If there's anything you can't get to, just disconnect the instrument cluster wiring and pop it off. All very straightforward, if a bit time-consuming at first.

Once you understand the sequence for undoing all of the screws/bolts and removing the pieces, the fairing comes off in about 15 mins and goes back on in about 20.

Had a great weekend at the National Exhibition Centre and the Classic Motor Show, with a couple of friends............. and our 3 FJ's on display on the VJMC stand. It was a great VJMC turnout with around 30 Japanese bikes from the 1960's through to the early 2000's, mostly, but not all, pristine "better than new" show-only bikes, but even so, our daily-rider FJ's and a couple of well used off road Suzuki's were still very popular with the show-goer's

This is a huge show, over 5 large Halls, with everything from the earliest classic bikes and cars, to buses, trucks, military service vehicles and a huge indoor autojumble (vehicular flea-market). The FJ's generated lots of questions and compliments, as well as "I had one when I was younger" and "I wish I'd never sold mine" comments yet again, over all 3 days.

Luckily it was nice warm and dry ride into the Show for set-up on Thursday so only a quick wipe-over with a rag was needed to make the bikes presentable, but for the ride home on Sunday evening, it was very, very wet  On arrival back home, my FJ was promptly blown dry'ish with my air-line and locked away in the garage - it will be getting a thorough clean over the next week.

I think this is the last opportunity of the year to display the old FJ, but fear not, she'll be getting used all through the winter, whenever its dry (so far, I've done over 9,000 miles on her now since getting back to riding in the spring) !!!

Here's a few photo's, the first two are on set-up evening (hence the reflective safety-waistcoats).

THNKS FOR SHAre This Information. Great !!!

Sorry for the late reply...dunno how I missed your intro...

Welcome aboard laddie!

Take a stroll through our Files...lots of bitchen stuff in there...

Cheers

Pat

My first thought...battery. But if the starter motor continues to turn over the engine without slowing down... then rule that out.

I'm going by memory but if I remember correctly, the fuel pump does not have a stand alone control relay (like the starter)
The control on the power for the fuel pump runs through the ignition box which also regulates the 5 second delay.
It's doubtful that went bad....what can go bad is the fuel pump itself.

Next: Rule out bad fuel pump. The contacts in the pump can be going bad and/or leaking diaphragm.

All Fuel pump FJer's should know that if they are out on the road and their fuel pump goes bad... (fuel starvation, e.g. running out of gas with plenty in the tank) they can bypass the fuel pump to get home.

All fuel pump FJer's should keep a male/male fuel line connector in their tool kit like this



Pull the seat and right side cover. Disconnect the inlet and outlet fuel lines from the fuel pump and with the line connector, connect the two lines together. I use a rubber shod small needle nose vice grip to pinch off the fuel line coming from the tank, that way I don't have to dick around with that fragile petcock.  I release the pinch clamp when the line connection is secure.

See if that gets gas to the carbs...it should....unless that's not your problem.

[rant on] If you do need a new fuel pump, DO NOT buy the eBay Chinese pumps. Buy oem Yamaha, Ask me how I know. [rant off]


Next step is to check the ignition.
Take a spark plug out and see if you have spark.

Let us know what you find.

It was running perfectly five days ago, then it was parked till yesterday when I attempted to start it and found no ignition.

how long ago was the bike running beautifully?

Yes, the valves for $300 the prices seem to be fluctuating recently but $20 ea is what we got them listed as now.

Probably $150-200 to cut the pistons been a few years since I did any but it takes a couple hours setting each piston up and making passes.

Hi everyone, I'm a fairly new 1992 FJ1200 owner and am glad to be a part of this community!

The bike was running beautifully but I'm having an issue now where the bike cranks but there's no ignition - I'm suspecting the fuel pump relay as the pump's clicking seems weak after the first failed start and I'm only finding 11V or less at the connector to the fuel pump, with the battery freshly charged with good voltage.

I'm weirdly unable to find the fuel pump relay on the bike, I'm under the impression that this should be near the fuel pump and accessible behind the right side panel? The blue/black wire from the fuel pump connector appears to go into the wiring harness, and reappears to go into the fuse box under the seat. Would someone mind confirming if I'm just looking in the wrong place for the fuel pump relay, or have a photo of where the relay should be?

Here's what happens when I attempt to start:
-battery fully charged, voltage checked at fuel pump connector 11V, turn the key and hear the fuel pump clicking for 5 seconds
-hold start, engine cranks as long as I'm holding it but there's no ignition
-turn the key off and on again, voltage at fuel pump connector <11V and fuel pump clicks maybe twice
-same crank but no ignition condition

I'd appreciate any help, apologies for this post if it's redundant but I've attempted searching the forums for the relay location.

Cheers!