My bracket broke :(

[Carterc]

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:

[Carterc]

or can somebody send me a picture of their 1982ish FJ1100 please??? i just need to compare the brackets

[Pat Conlon]

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. 

[1tinindian]

82 was a good year, just not for the FJ!

[Pat Conlon]

Hey Carter, just messin with you.   First year for the Yamaha FJ was 1984.

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

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

[Carterc]

hey Pat 

I PM'ed you but it doesnt show up in my outbox, let me know if you get it or not, thanks!!!

[andyb]

Pat's also being mean.

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 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.  One of the best places to find direct interchanges (though often, other years/parts will fit with a little tweaking).

[Travis398]

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?

[Carterc]

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

[andyb]

I believe the C models are california versions.

The S suffix is year specific.  In the later bikes, an A suffix indicates ABS.

[1tinindian]

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

[RichBaker]

'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.....

[racerman_27410]

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! 


KOokaloo!

Frank

[Carterc]

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....

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 )

yay for saviors! you guys really have been so incredibly helpful and generous 

[Pat Conlon]

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.