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Wasn’t smart enough to change his location.

Hmmm. Maybe I’ve been doing it wrong all these years? For those Phillips head pop-rivets I’ve used a screw driver to pop the head up, then pry out the body. But for installing, with the head pre-popped up I always just push the rivet body in place, then push the Phillips head center part...

My 2014 is still running on it’s original battery. I pulled it out this morning with temps right around freezing, and it was turning over a little slow. I do run 15W50 oil in it, so that might be why. Gave it about 4-5 seconds on the starter the first time, then shut it off for a minute. On...

Just read through this thread. The one thing not yet mentioned, but I assume a lot of people think when they hear the “kerchunk” (term worth googling on this forum) is that it is not your gears that are meshing violently to make that irksome noise. The gears on a motorcycle gearbox are known...

I figured I’d disconnect the connector to the APS and hook up a ohmmeter while twisting the throttle. If it shows up in the APS that has to be the cause. If it doesn’t, I should be able to manually operate the throttle shaft to see if it’s the TPS the same way. Never tried to manually turn...

Dredging this old thread up because I seem to finally be affected by the throttle position herky jerky. I’m sitting at 65k miles on the 2014 (miles are being split with three other trusty steeds). My present symptoms are slightly different from those previously shown. For one thing, the herky...

I remember that my first gen used to have a louder whine while cruising along in 4th gear. My ‘14 doesn’t seem to display that trait, or else my hearing has gotten that much worse. I agree with Ross, the few times I’ve ridden mine without earplugs, like moving it across a parking lot, I was...

If you arrange the spanner at a 90 degree angle to the torque wrench there is no torque amplification and you can read the wrench directly.

Just experienced this same symptom. In my case the mode switch was damaged from smacking into my tank bag one too many times. One of the plastic ears on the contact plate was broken off, so there was no pressure against the slider. I was able to put a very small ty-wrap around the switch to...

Weird. That’s exactly where I feel it. Must be a difference in windshields. Years back when we were visiting the open roads of Wyoming and Montana, I wicked it up past 100 one morning with my wife on the back and the trunk as her backrest. No buffeting at all. She didn’t even realize we...

Hmmm. Sliding the fork legs up would steepen the steering angles, which should make the front end less stable and more prone to oscillate. It would make the bike turn-in quicker. Adjusting the preload is the same thing as ride height. You can raise or lower either end of the bike by...

That is contrary to historical results. Most don’t require adjustment to 3rd or 4rth check. Always willing to hear contrary opinions, but that is what the collective reported.

I kind of think we did this survey about 10 years ago.

Front spline has no motion in it, under operating conditions. It only needs anti-seize on it so that it can be disassembled. The rear drive-shaft spline is inside the rear hub assembly, and is spring loaded pushing the shaft forward. Any lateral motion of the shaft is taken up in the rear...

Yeah, but I think it was quite a while ago. Either way, Russ is a great guy. And an actual “Rocket Scientist”!

FYI… Snowflake on the FJRiders forum is AKA FJReady on this forum. He made the same post about his zerked out relay arms somewhere on this forum a while back.

I believe that this was done by Yamaha in conjunction with having the auto clutch YCCS system. I recall that some second gen owners would swap out their slave cylinders with one from a first gen to make the engagement more progressive and get lighter lever pull.

I think that the drive shaft being inside the rear swingarm eliminates the need for a second pivot joint.

Hello Pjotr, Yes, I think you have it right. Once any of the channels becomes lower than the rest, just ignore the paint dots and make that channel the reference, left fully closed, and adjust the rest to that level. The key is to balance the 4 channels. The absolute value of the channels...

I took the time to dig through the 2014 FSM today.  Information about idle speed control (either cold or normal) is very scarce. There is a brief mention in the fuel injection theory about it being simplified (no bypass or valve) but nothing more.  There is also a diagnostic that will allow you...