FZ600 Back from the dead…with piccies!

[imperialdata]

Good work guys. Those pipes look pretty thin from here!

[BigBen]

bloody hell you must have scrubbed them good and hard for that..ID’s right they look a bit on the thin side

[Radar]

The pipes are in ‘intensive care’ and I hoping they can be sorted over the next week. I have had no luck with ebay, but am following up a post on the yamaha owners club site that Kat put me onto

[katana]

The forks are rebuilt and I even managed to give them a very brief polish today (by no means show standard).

I’ll be over in the morning Radar so at least we can get it back on its wheels.

[Radar]

Cheers Kat! The fork re-fitting has had to be postponed, any chance of this coming Sunday Kat? Let me know. The exhausts might be done by then too hopefully

[katana]

yep Sunday is good for me

[Radar]

Top man, c u Sunday

[Radar]

Well my exhaust has been blasted and now has more holes than one of these…

Anybody know a REALLY good welder!??

[katana]

Welder? reckon you need a thatcher!

Looks like someone has had a go at repairing that before.

[TT07]

Might be easier to weld up the holes in the colander and get that to fit!

[Thumper]

What about getting a nice sticker for the can?……. “ASPARAGAS”

[Radar]

Very funny!!

I have spotted some shiney XJ600 headers on ebay. The XJ used the same motor so they should fit…watch this space

[Lex]

Time to chuck the whole pile of scrap in the bin Radar and buy something that WORKS!!!

[Radar]

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Originally posted by Lex

Time to chuck the whole pile of scrap in the bin Radar and buy something that WORKS!!!

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Thanks for the positive feedback Lex!

[Radar]

Well Katana returned with my forks today and they looked mighty shiney!

Some brisk spanner and socket set work saw the first fork fitted promptly

Followed by some nice fresh fork oil…

Thanks to Mrs.Radar for the loan of the jug! If you ever have gravy at our house, this will be why it tastes slightly odd…

Use of a syringe allowed the last few cc to be done accurately

The Haynes ‘book of lies’ often says “re-assembly is the opposite of the above”, and that was pretty much the case today. The other fork swiftly went on, as did the ‘fork brace’, mudguard, front wheel and brake calipers etc.

We checked over all the bolts, ensuring everything was nice and tight and even treated the old girl to a quick oil and filter change.

The FZ was then tucked away in the corner of the garage again while I figure out what to do about the exhaust…my brilliant paln to use XJ600 items came to naught when I realised that bike has a 4 into 2 system and the FZ is 4 into 1; all the routing will be wrong for the downpipes. Shame there was a lovely set on ebay too.

A big thank you to Katana again, and the search goes on for some decent down-pipes

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